Numbers Indicate More Trouble For the Printing Ink Industry

We all know that the U.S. printing ink industry has faced hard times in recent years. Caught between the proverbial rock, in the form of dramatically increasing raw material and operational costs, and a hard place, i.e., increasingly tight competition and overcapacity, the ink industry has watched its margins shrink despite efforts to contain costs. Virtually all ink manufacturers were forced to raise their prices last year. The most positive thing that people took out of the increases is that ...