Flexo, Sheetfed Ink Markets Face Serious Challenges in 2009

Sheetfed offset and flexo are two of the largest segments in theprinting ink industry, combining for more than an estimated $1.6 billion in sales in North America alone. It comes as little surprise, then, that they have been adversely affected by the global recession. As I note in “The Sheetfed Ink Report,” beginning on page 40, the sheetfed offset market has been particularly hard hit by the recession, most notably on the commercial side, where areas such as advertising, automotive brochures a...