According
to Ink World, printing ink sales remained steady or grew slightly, and the
primary printing trends-digital printing greater inroads, packaging growing and
publication and commercial printing continuing to decline –remained steady
The ink
industry saw further consolidation within its customer and supplier bases,
while also seeing a few significant mergers within its own ranks.
Among other
acquisitions, in the US Sun Chemical acquired UV ink specialist Joules Angstrom
UV Printing Inks as well as PPG metal deco ink segment.
There were
three billion-dollar mergers in the printing industry: Multi-Color adding
Constantia Flexibles Labels Division, Coveris Holdings selling its America
packaging business to Transcontinental and Graphic Packaging combining with
International Papers North American Consumer Packaging business.
The Top
International Ink Companies ( Ink and Graphic Arts Sales ) above $1B sales :
1. DIC/Sun
Chemical $4,60B
2. Flint
Group $2,50B
3. Sakata INX $1,31B
4. Toyo Ink $1,30B
5. Siegwerk
Group $1,08B
Antonio Blanco
Partner NOVAGAL PRINTING INKS, SL
