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M&A Activity Quiets Down During 1Q 2017

After a chaotic 2016, the ink industry slows down consolidation, with hubergroup’s addition of Alden & Ott a key exception.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

During the last few months of 2015 and throughout 2016, the printing ink industry finally joined up with its customers and suppliers in terms of mergers and acquisitions. Among the most notable highlights, Flint Group added the eighth-largest North American ink manufacturer (American Inks & Coatings) and the European publication offset and gravure ink business segment coalesced into a few large suppliers.   So far, though, 2017 has been rather quiet for the ink industry. To be fair, it has...

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