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Collins Inkjet Acquired by Kao Corporation

Combination will look to expand Collins’ existing product lines, open new markets.

Kao Corporation has concluded an agreement to acquire Collins Inkjet Corporation, Cincinnati, OH, through a Kao Group company in the US. An early entrant into the inkjet ink market for industrial printing, Collins Inkjet develops, manufactures and sells of inkjet ink and related equipment. Kao has been formulating water-based pigment dispersions and ink, with an eye on the industrial inkjet printing.   In March, Kao utilized its “pigment nano dispersion technology” to develop the world’s first...

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