Sun Chemical will present its latest innovations in sustainable and compliant inks, coatings, and adhesives for the label and packaging sectors at Labelexpo Europe 2025 (Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain, 16–19 September, Booth 3D92).
Visitors to Sun Chemical’s stand will discover a comprehensive portfolio of print solutions that span analogue and digital technologies, all engineered to meet the evolving performance, compliance, and sustainability demands of today’s label and packaging markets. From advanced UV LED flexo systems to cutting-edge digital inkjet technologies, Sun Chemical will highlight how its innovations support efficient production, high-impact visuals and circular packaging workflows.
Sun Chemical will showcase an extensive portfolio of high-performance inks, coatings and adhesives, including UV, UV flexo, UV LED, water-based technologies and its market-leading Electron Beam (EB) systems for labels, sleeves and packaging.
Visitors to the booth can explore Sun Chemical’s portfolio of UV LED inks and coatings, including:
- SolarWave Integra: standard UV LED flexo inks
- SolarWave FSP: migration-compliant UV LED flexo inks
- SunWave LED coatings: available in gloss, stampable, matt, and migration-compliant grades
- SolarWave Panther: high-density blacks optimised for curing at high density
- SolarScreen Wave: a full range of standard UV LED screen inks
- SolarFlex FDW and Slalom: standard and food-compliant opaque whites for labels and sleeves, now optimised for UV LED
- SolarVerse: a system of pigmented bases and technology varnishes designed for special colour mixing of UV flexo inks in standard, compliant and UV LED profiles. The system offers significant advantages in simplification and sustainability.
Advancing Circular Packaging
Sustainability and compliance with rapidly advancing extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation (e.g., Europe’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)) remain a top priority for Sun Chemical. At Labelexpo 2025, the company will showcase a wide selection of solutions for labels and packaging that facilitate recycling.
Key developments include:
- Retention grade recyclable solution: SolarWave Integra UV LED ink combined with EV-LU029 coating.
- Washable/deinking solution: SolarFlex CRCL—compatible with recycling processes based on ink retention or deinking (US market).
- Electron Beam (EB) solutions: EB-curable inks and coatings tailored for mono-material and monolayer packaging structures.
In addition, Sun Chemical will introduce a new migration-compliant screen ink portfolio for labels, as well as a migration-compliant varnish, tactile varnish and SolarScreen Wave: a full range of standard UV LED screen inks.
These innovations reflect Sun Chemical’s continued commitment to delivering products that enable circularity, reduce environmental impact, and align with evolving industry and regulatory standards.
Digital Solutions
Sun Chemical is a leading solution provider for digital label printing with a range of products to meet the stringent needs of label converters. Leading the market in UV and UV LED technology, Sun Chemical’s digital ink portfolio for labels supports a wide range of inkjet printhead platforms, providing flexible solutions to suit any OEM requirement.
Sun Chemical will showcase its latest developments in digital ink technology, including LED curable solutions featuring updated formulas that are compliant with all recent regulatory changes, over printable solutions and a range of coatings to support the adoption of digital printing across a range of substrates and ink technologies.
Sun Chemical has global production capability to support partners with high-quality products locally to reduce lead times, emissions, and logistical challenges. The company continues to push technological boundaries in narrow web applications, including flexible packaging, and will showcase how its innovations are supporting wider adoption of digital print across packaging markets.
Sun Chemical’s offering also includes primers, coatings and lamination adhesives that are optimised to integrate seamlessly with digital ink solutions.
Colour Management
In addition to its product portfolio, Sun Chemical will present SunColorBox—a unique set of tools and services designed to enable consistent and accurate digital colour communication across the entire packaging supply chain.
Whether printing spot colours, CMYK, or using extended gamut processes, SunColorBox helps customers manage colours efficiently and reliably. It allows businesses of all sizes to select the colour management tools best suited to their needs and investment level, ensuring consistency from design through to production.
Jonathan Sexton, Marketing Director, Narrow Web and Screen at Sun Chemical, comments: “We’re proud to offer one of the most comprehensive portfolios for label and packaging printing across both analogue and digital platforms. Our continued innovation in UV, UV LED, EB and digital ink technologies, combined with our strong sustainability focus and global support infrastructure, enables us to provide converters with tailored solutions that deliver performance, compliance and environmental responsibility. We are excited to see the continued adoption of digital solutions for label and packaging applications, which are playing a strong part in enabling the successful implementation of inkjet technology. We look forward to welcoming visitors to our booth.”
