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Rising Ink Prices Driven by Higher Raw Material Costs, Shortages

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

There has been a lot of pricing increases that have been announced recently for key raw materials for ink manufacturing. In addition, there have been shortages in important products. Ink manufacturers have done what they can to contain costs, but increases of more than 50% for feedstocks and critical ingredients has overwhelmed the ink companies. As a result, Sun Chemical and Flint Group have announced a series of price increases of their own in the last two weeks. These increases are as follow...

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