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The 2018 Year in Review

Raw material supply and cost concerns, consolidations and more headline a busy year for the ink industry.

Despite growth in the global economy, the ink industry saw a continuation of many of the same issues it was plagued with in 2018. Raw materials were a major concern, although this year was more about photoinitiators than last year’s problems with titanium dioxide. Consolidations continued, primarily on the customer side, with two multi-billion mergers (Amcor buying Bemis, Quad/Graphics acquiring LSC Communications) announced. Siegwerk CEO Herbert Forker said that looking at the overall performa...

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