Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.

Kenya Yamashita

Yukikazu Nobuhara

Masanori Maruno

Jun Yoshida

A photosensitive resin composition for flexographic printing having excellent resistance to an ink comprising an organic solvent and an emulsion ink used in flexographic printing, for example, a UV-curable ink or an ink using a vegetable oil or light naphtha and having excellent suitability for printing applications such as image reproducibility and print durability. The photosensitive resin composition for flexographic printing includes, at least, (a) one or more thermoplastic elastomers, (b) an acrylic-terminated liquid polybutadiene containing 1,2-bonds in an amount of 80% or more, (c) a photopolymerizable unsaturated monomer having at least one or more ethylenically unsaturated groups, and (d) a photopolymerization initiator.

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Kashiba, Japan

Kenya Yamashita