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AIC Acquisition Adds to Flint Group’s Strength in Packaging Inks

Addition of North American packaging ink specialist positions Flint Group in paper & board, flexible packaging segments.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Flint Group has been on an impressive buying spree recently, adding Siegwerk’s web offset business, Advanced Color Systems and most notably, Xeikon. In terms of printing ink, the news that Flint Group is adding American Inks & Coatings (AIC), the eighth-largest North American ink manufacturer in Ink World’s Top 20 with $130 million in sales in 2015, is the largest news to date.   As always, the transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions, including necessary regulatory appr...

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