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Article: Working toward a clean environment. (printing and graphic arts) (Ink) (Column)
- Article from:
- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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The printing ink industry has long been concerned with finding ways to achieve a cleaner environment and to reduce the environmental burden of its products. Before passage of the Clean Air Act, printing ink manufacturers were developing water-based ink systems to replace inks containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Many years before the first "CONEG Law" was passed to reduce heavy metals in packaging, the printing ink industry had been reducing the use of lead-bearing pigments in packaging inks. For more than two decades, the printing ink industry and its raw material suppliers have spent many millions of dollars developing new raw materials to reduce the environmental ...
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