Aqueous Coated Boxes and Aqueous Folding Boxes protects the folding box and packaging from scuffing during transit and distribution. Aqueous coatings on folding boxes preserve the packaging for when it is on display in the retail environment.
Consumers often avoid buying products with scuffed packaging. In short, aqueous coatings on folding boxes protects your investment in your product by protecting your branding and image at the point of sale.
Regardless of your project specifications, whether price is more important than graphical perfection, we can provision aqueous coatings on all of your packaging needs.
Aqueous Coated Boxes never yellow. Oil-based inks and varnishes will yellow over time and are, therefore, risky for packaged products with longer shelf lives. Aqueous Coated Boxes are more environmentally friendly and more recyclable because aqueous coatings use water-based inks and coatings instead of oil-based or grease-based inks and coatings.
While most of today’s commercial printers have more modern machinery, some printers for packages use older equipment that is not compatible with Aqueous Coated Boxes. An Aqueous Coated Boxes specification does limit the market somewhat. However, if you want aqueous finishing, we can source it for you and there is really no additional capital expenditure required.
Aqueous Coated Boxes are glueable and don’t have to have spot varnished finishing. Regular varnish finishes repel the glue needed to seal the box. Aqueous coated boxes are water-based which allows the glue to penetrate and bite the cardboard. Most varnishes will not allow the glue to penetrate and typical water-based glue will not stick to most varnishes. Non-aqueous coated boxes would require special varnish making it harder, for quality control purposes, to guarantee that the glue will be effective for enough of the boxes.
Printers blanket the whole sheet when applying aqueous coatings on boxes; covering everything, because the printers do not have to account for spot varnishing and glue penetration defects. This process is also known as flooding the packaging with the aqueous coating thus eliminating the additional resources required for spot varnishing with regular greased-based varnish finishing for paperboard boxes.