JK Inks inaugurates new production facility in Novedrate

JK Inks, a DDP Group company known for its brand Kiian Digital, has inaugurated a new facility for the production of reactive inks at its headquarters site in Novedrate, just north of Milan. The new plant is fully dedicated to the production of reactive inks, which will be distributed in an innovative new packaging system. The move will enable JK Inks to expand its position in the digital textile market as a supplier of dye-sublimation, pigment, disperse and now the new Digistar Bellagio reactive inks.

Novedrate 2 is a semi-automatic plant, designed to be flexible enough to fulfil both current and future requirements. It will be used to produce the Bellagio reactive inks, which include colour process, spot-colour sets and black sets. The inks are distributed in innovative Bag-in-Box packaging that combines flexible PE plastic bags with an outer cardboard casing, reducing the amount of plastic used by 80 percent compared with regular HDPE tanks. After use the two layers can be easily separated for the safe disposal of the ink while the cardboard is recycled. According to DDP President Abhi Agrawal, the new Novedrate 2 facility is a step into the future for the company to maintain a new position as a premium-level partner for the entire digital textile printing market.