Digital Printing

The future of printing is digital. Digital printing is the fastest-growing printing sector with constant need for innovation. It eliminates numerous mechanical steps found in conventional printing and affords easy print customization, short run efficiency and print on demand. BASF offers innovative raw materials for the formulation of high performance digital primers inks and varnishes.

Additives for ceramics

BASF has a strong portfolio of additives for the coloration of ceramic materials like tiles and tableware. Tiles can be decorated with inkjet printing, giving flexibility and efficiency for various, even customized decors. To fulfill the strong growing demand of digital ceramic inks, we offer a broad range of solvents, and additives like dispersants, defoamers and humectants.

Water-based resins

Water-based inks cover the majority of inks for inktjet. This will continue to grow in market share and BASF has the resins to support this development. We are offering styrene acrylic resins and resin solution for water-based primers, inks and varnishes.

Our comprehensive range of acrylics offer outstanding ink rheology and stability, very small and narrow particle size distribution and, for outdoor applications, high weather fastness.

Next generation ink formulation

We also offer a broad portfolio of photoinitiators, monomers and oligomers for energy curing. Additionally, BASF is supplying formulation additives like dispersing agents, wetting agents and surface modifiers, defoamers, rheology modifiers and film-forming agents. Our additives improve the ink performance during manufacturing and application. Plus, our UV absorbers, light stabilizers and antioxidants for inks and overprint varnishes help prints last longer.