Birla Carbon Inks
Birla Carbon Inks is a carbon black solutions category for printing ink applications that require optical density, jetness, blue undertone, dispersion performance, viscosity balance, and consistent print quality. Birla Carbon's Raven carbon black portfolio is designed to help ink formulations achieve strong black colour performance, stable processing, and optimized print results across various printing technologies.
In the inks industry, carbon black plays a key role as a primary pigment for achieving blackness, opacity, gloss, optical density, and the desired undertone for different applications. Birla Carbon provides solutions for digital inks, energy curable inks, news inks, packaging inks, and publication inks, allowing formulators to select carbon black grades based on ink chemistry, printing process, substrate type, viscosity target, regulatory requirements, and print quality needs.
Digital Inks from Birla Carbon use maximum performance carbon blacks with high surface areas to deliver premium jetness, blue undertone, optical density, and print quality. These products also support strong purity and cleanliness to help maintain reliable printhead performance and reduce clogging risk in inkjet applications.
Energy Curable Inks from Birla Carbon are developed for UV and EB ink systems that require high purity, rheology stability, gloss, depth of color, and a balance between color performance and speed of cure. Carbon blacks for this application help maintain stable viscosity while supporting low PAH and low metals formulation requirements.
News Inks from Birla Carbon provide carbon blacks designed to meet colour requirements in the news ink or coldset market. News ink formulations require a balance between low viscosity, ease of dispersion, jetness, and blue tone, so the carbon black structure can be selected according to ink performance and printing process targets.
Packaging Inks from Birla Carbon include carbon blacks for various printing processes, ink chemistries, and substrate types. These products help formulators achieve appearance targets, thin film opacity, suitable viscosity, high cleanliness, and performance relevant to packaging inks, including applications with food-contact regulatory considerations.
Publication Inks from Birla Carbon are designed for letterpress, offset, and gravure applications that require optical density, gloss, blue undertone, blackness, viscosity control, dispersion, cleanliness, and rub-resistance. The Raven carbon black portfolio gives formulators flexibility to balance colour, flow, and printing performance in publication inks.
| Applications | Product | Product Information | Information Link |
| Digital inks, inkjet inks, outdoor graphics, toner applications, high optical density printing, and digital printing applications requiring jetness, blue undertone, print quality, cleanliness, purity, lightfastness, and reliable printhead performance | DIGITAL INKS | Maximum performance Raven carbon blacks for digital inks with high surface area, premium jetness, blue undertone, high optical density, excellent purity, low ash and grit, and support for more stable printhead performance. | View Information |
| UV inks, EB inks, energy curable inks, coatings, high gloss inks, low viscosity concentrates, and applications requiring rheology stability, high purity, low PAH, low metals content, dispersion, depth of color, and speed of cure | Energy Curable Inks | Surface treated Raven carbon blacks for energy curable systems. Designed to maintain rheology stability, improve gloss and depth of color, support low PAH and low metals requirements, and help balance color performance with UV reactivity. | View Information |
| News inks, coldset inks, newspaper printing, low viscosity inks, high-speed printing, and applications requiring a balance of color properties, jetness, blue tone, ease of dispersion, and rheology control | NEWS INKS | Carbon blacks for the news ink and coldset market with different structure options to balance viscosity, dispersibility, jetness, and blue undertone. Suitable for newspaper ink formulations requiring efficient colour and process performance. | View Information |
| Packaging inks, flexible packaging, porous and non-porous substrates, food-contact related packaging, liquid inks, solvent-based inks, water-based inks, and applications requiring appearance properties, opacity, viscosity control, cleanliness, morphology, and dispersion performance | PACKAGING INKS | Raven carbon blacks for packaging inks with flexible combinations of surface area and structure. Supports thin film opacity, desired flow properties, high cleanliness, low contaminant levels, and high performance packaging formulation requirements. | View Information |
| Publication inks, letterpress, offset, gravure, web offset, sheet-fed printing, magazines, catalogs, and applications requiring optical density, gloss, blue undertone, blackness, viscosity balance, dispersion, cleanliness, and rub-resistance | PUBLICATION INKS | Specialty Raven carbon blacks for publication inks. Designed to help formulators balance optical density, color, gloss, viscosity, dispersion, cleanliness, and rub-resistance across various printing processes. | View Information |
