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Siegwerk’s Moves Show Focus on Packaging Market

Acquiring ACTEGA Colorchemie, selling web offset division to Flint Group allows Siegwerk to concentrate on core business.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

The packaging and narrow web/label fields are two of the strongest markets for printing. By contrast, publication printing has been on the decline in recent years, and will likely continue to do so. With more than $1.1 billion in sales in 2014, Siegwerk Druckfarben is the world’s fifth-largest ink manufacturer. Its ink operations are almost solely set in the packaging field, which is a pretty good place to be right now. Up until recently, Siegwerk had some publication ink sales in web offset ...

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