The world of ink market situation
At present, the global printing ink industry continued to grow, large international companies have international expansion by using joint venture, cooperation, acquisition of a variety of methods, many international companies are falling in the domestic market, but has been developed in China, Asia pacific. In 2003 the global ink annual sales of more than $1000000000 Enterprises: Dainippon ink / Sun Chemical\'s $4400000000, $1400000000 of Japanese flint ink, Toyo ink $1000000000; annual sales of more than $300000000: Germany BASF $762000000, Japan SakataInx7.42 billion Swiss SICPA, $725000000, $454000000 in Tokyo printing ink in Germany, HuberGroup3.8 billion dollars, Japan, will 380000000 dollars, Japanese InctecInc3.6 billion dollars.
International ink company in order to occupy more market share, in recent years the development of many new ink varieties: such as sheet fed process ink, thermosetting web offset printing ink, industrial inkjet products (CIJ, drop on demand inkjet DOD (continuous), conductive ink factory in Beijing), flexo ink, paper flexo ink use paper towels (photosensitive resin version), alcohol soluble printing gravure ink, anhydrous soybean oil offset (environmental) ink and other new. The following aspects of driving force of ink development:
1 technological progress, new technology and new material, production to promote the development of printing inks, such as rapid development in recent years. The jet ink;
2 to promote the market, the new needs of the people, or the fierce market competition to promote the progress of domestic more ink, that is of the same type, the same grade products at competitive prices;
3 to promote the environmental protection regulations, ink domestic not yet has the perfect laws and regulations, but in the food packaging and other related aspects limit the heavy metal content, packaging solvent residue and the other VOC standards and other regulations, foresee the corresponding regulations will soon promulgated.
