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The Raw Material Report

For the past few years, raw material costs and supply for printing inks have been, in a word, volatile

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World, Coatings World and Ink World Magazine

For the past few years, raw material costs and supply for printing inks have been, in a word, volatile. There were skyrocketing crude oil prices, followed by shortages. Pigment prices, which had remained relatively stable, were impacted by the elimination of the value addded tax and a new emphasis on environmental issues in China. Then the global recession hit, and hit hard. Meanwhile, the printing industry haas come under heavy pressure from a varety of outside sources, not the least of which ...

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