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After Deadly Explosion In China, Raw Materials are Even More Challenging

Pigment and photoinitiator supply for publication and UV inks will be impacted for the foreseeable future.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

The past few years have been extremely challenging in terms of supply of key raw materials for inks and their ingredients. Suppliers in China have been closed temporarily or permanently due to tightening environmental regulations. In 2018, the shuttering of a key intermediate for photoinitiators creates a shortage of TPO and TPO-L, leaving ink companies scrambling to find materials for UV inks and coatings, often having to pay much higher prices for what they could find. As a result, many leadin...

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