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The Raw Material Market Sees Some Stabilization in 2023

While the costs and availability of key ingredients has generally improved during the past year, most prices have not rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.

The past few years have not been pleasant for ink industry purchasing executives. Even before COVID struck, there were shortages of numerous ingredients, most notably titanium dioxide and photoinitiators. The COVID pandemic started a wave of price increases and shortages that ranged across pretty much the entire raw material spectrum, as manufacturing was shut down in certain locations and shipping became costly and unpredictable. The good news is that while there are materials that remain ch...

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