Epple Druckfarben
We’re always just one step ahead.
The most dynamic products for all requirements
Merely manufacturing inks would be too simple for us. We’re always on the lookout for something special. Our drive to bring the best characteristics of all our products to life is the reason we constantly improve on formulations that have already proven their worth. This generates new worlds of colour that are unique in their perfection. This perfection is based on select raw materials, precision downstream processing and scientific insights from our own research laboratory. But the ingredient that makes Epple inks something very special is the most important: our passion…
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Epple Range of Products
The most dynamic products for all requirements
Standard ink series
At Epple, we know our customers’ exact needs, the standards they demand and the conditions they produce under. Every application calls for a formulation that makes printing results something special and which enables machine processing that is optimally aligned to your equipment. This insight is what enables us to bring forth a product portfolio of standard ink series for pretty much all offset printing machines and processing forms. That’s something quality printers all over the world can rely on every day.
Packaging printing inks - You can bet they supply the best results
Packaging is a fascinating product. It’s supposed to be tempting and tantalising without losing its informative functions. More than anything else, it has to guarantee end-customer safety i.e. those who it is in direct contact with. After all, packaging is for touching and feeling. That’s why they should have as few substances as possible that could a pose a hazard to the customer’s health.
UV conventional process series -A class in and of itself
Maximum intensity and colour intensity, flawless adhesive properties, fast curing and optimum printability; those are the qualities that Epple’s classical UV colour series stand for. We provide these properties for almost all printing materials used in UV printing
UV Low Energy process series -High colour intensity – low consumption
The UV AtmosFair series from Epple has been specifically conceived for printing ink curing in ecofriendly low-energy consumption printing machines. This has the benefit that the material is not unnecessarily strained thanks to the low temperatures.
Epple – A story of innovations
Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
Passion for the exceptional is tradition at Epple, as already proven by the fathers of the current Epple Druckfarben AG. In 1870, Theodor Bernhard Albert Klotzsch established a letterpress printing ink factory in Radebeul, near Dresden. From 1875 on it became very colourful in the former Robert Gysae carbon black factory, as this was where the production of coloured printing inks, as well as various printing aids, began.
In 1895, Johann Nepomuk Otto Baer took over the company and subsequently guided it to fame as the Otto Baer ink factory. When Carl Epple took over as managing director in 1914 they were already producing products of exceptional quality by the standards of that time. Special recipes and high quality precursors have been the focus from the beginning of the company and still determine the distinction between Epple and their competitors, to this day.
After the expropriation of the firm during the Second World War, the company was successfully re-launched at the location in the Augsburg region in 1949, under the name Carl Epple. Following the death of the company founder, his children Karla Berz and Rudolf Epple succeeded him in the management of the company, in 1952. The following twenty years saw a rapid increase in exports to the European markets.
The internationalisation of the sales markets in the nineties led the company beyond Europe onto the global market. The major contributory factors here were the quality of the products and the innovative strength of the company. The development and market launch of new environmentally friendly generations of printing inks, based on pure vegetable binding agents, underscored the role of the company as technological leaders in their field and since 1999 printers on every continent have used inks from the house of Epple.
Continued success and sustainable growth have determined the course of the company since the turn of the millennium: 2007 saw the expansion of the production area with a newly constructed manufacturing hall, equipped with the most modern technology for sustainable production.
The Epple brand was re-launched at drupa 2016 and the company has consequently expanded its worldwide sales network since then. The passion for the exceptional is still aflame and undiluted after almost 150 years. The food-safe series BoFood® Organic and the pure ink PURe® have positioned Epple as pioneers of sustainable sheetfed offset printing, setting the trend for the industry and customers alike.
