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Sun Chemical to Increase Prices on Packaging Inks in North America

Driven by serious shortages, unrelenting cost increases of the raw materials needed to manufacture white and Violet 23 packaging inks

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Due to the serious shortages and unrelenting cost increases of the raw materials needed to manufacture white and Violet 23 packaging inks, effective May 1, 2011, Sun Chemical will raise prices on all solvent- and water-based white inks by a minimum of 10 percent, and all solvent- and water-based Violet 23 inks by a minimum of 20 percent, dependent upon the amount of Violet 23 in the specific color formulation. Sun Chemical will continue to monitor the situation with raw materials and may need...

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