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Sun Chemical Rises

How the ink industry's largest company got to where it is today, and how its leaders plan to avoid the mistakes that decimated Inmont and others.

Today, anyone unfamiliar with the printing ink business would have a hard time envisioning Sun Chemical Corporation as anything but the leader of the industry. After all, the company projects its 2000 sales at well over $4 billion, primarily in inks and pigments. Combined with its parent corporation, Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, Inc. (DIC), which bought Sun Chemical in 1987, the company controls $4 billion of the approximately $12 billion worldwide ink market. However...

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