DIC extends support to packaging on the impending toluene ban

In a move towards ensuring a safe packaging environment in the country, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) recently prohibited toluene-based inks for food packaging applications under a revision of its IS15495 regulation ill-effects of toluene on human health and environment. Mandeep Kaur and Naresh Khanna discussed this topic and others in a conversation with the DIC India’s managing director and CEO Manish Bhatia. Noida-based DIC India (a part of the DIC Corporation based in Japan) is one of India’s largest printing ink manufacturers, with R & D centers in Kolkata and Noida and manufacturing facilities in Noida, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, and Kolkata. The company marks its presence in UV, UV flexo, conventional sheetfed, flexible gravure, and CI flexo inks. It is also present in the industrial adhesive segment. As one of the oldest global ink companies present in the country, DIC worked closely with the BIS standardization committee on the ban of toluene-based inks. Speaking about the new regulations, Manish Bhatia, managing director and chief executive officer of DIC India, says, “We have developed platforms,…

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