Sun Chemical is supporting food packaging manufacturers and brand owners for the German Ink Ordinance (GIO), effective from 1st January 2027. 

The company remains committed to providing an innovative portfolio of GIO-compliant inks, coatings, and overprint varnishes that protect customer brands and ensure packaging is safe and future-ready.

With expertise in low migration inks and varnishes, Sun Chemical is ideally positioned to support GIO compliance. The company has solutions that cover the full spectrum of printing options, including offset, gravure printing, and flexographic printing, including water and solvent-based inks, as well as UV and EB formulations.

The GIO sets out to protect consumer health by regulating the potential migration of chemicals from food packaging into food products. It does this by providing a positive list of substances, including monomers, additives, colorants, and solvents, that are permitted for use in printing inks and varnishes used on food contact materials. 

Alongside the Swiss ordinances, the GIO will act as a reference point in the absence of an official EU standard. Global brands and the wider supply chain have adopted the GIO principles to show best practice for consumer safety. 

Nicolas Bétin, Director of Product Strategy EMEA, Packaging Inks & Materials & Global Sustainability Business Leader, commented: “At Sun Chemical, we support packaging manufacturers and brand owners with future-proof solutions that enable them to adopt a GIO-compliant approach with confidence. Our customers see us as a trusted partner because we invest heavily in R&D, provide access to local expertise, and offer the widest range of solutions and services, all from one source. Our goal is to help our customers manage regulatory changes and develop future-ready solutions. We will continue to work closely with customers to help them achieve safe, compliant, and efficient production, for them to ‘Experience. Transformation.’”

Sun Chemical can support its customers across its broad food packaging portfolios, including GIO-compliant solutions for paper packaging, folding carton, flexible packaging, lidding, and labels & sleeves.