Business Club March 12th With the recovery of the global economy, the ink manufacturing industry has achieved certain growth last year, especially in the packaging field.

It is understood that in addition to Japan and Oceania, the ink business in the Asia-Pacific region is surprising. Their demand for packaging inks is very large. The sales of news inks and publishing inks in the region are also very good, but growth recovery is not as good as packaging inks. So high. In Japan and Oceania, the market demand for packaging inks is not high, and with the reduction of books, magazines, and newspapers, the market size of news and publishing inks is shrinking.

At the same time, the demand for offset printing inks has rebounded in China and Southeast Asia. In particular, after China and the Shanghai World Expo, the sales volume of offset printing inks, gravure printing inks, and environmental protection inks have both increased significantly, and this growth momentum has been extended to the entire Asia-Pacific region. area.

In addition, the food packaging industry has become the largest customer of gravure printing inks. Affected by the price hikes of rosin, resins, pigments, oil, and titanium, the Asia-Pacific region raised the price of ink twice in 2010. Affected by this, some ink manufacturers in India have experienced a decrease in profitability despite the increase in operating income. The situation of the printing factory is the same as that of the ink company. Packaging, publishing and commercial printing have all increased by about 10%, but paper and paperboard prices have tripled in the past year, which has directly affected the profits of printing companies.