Pricing Volatility, Availability of Raw Materials Remain Critical Concerns

For more than a year, ink manufacturers have watched closely as pricing of key raw materials have skyrocketed, and availability of certain critical ingredients has become a major issue. That situation has not changed. Crude oil and natural gas, the key building blocks for the feedstocks that are so essential to ink formulators, have continued to dramatically increase in price. Last year, ink manufacturers were lamenting a barrel of crude oil reaching $45. Now, one year later, crude oil is goin...