In the last year, gum rosin, a critical base material for phenolic resin used in print media inks (heatset, publication gravure, coldset and sheetfed) has been under constant upward price pressure. Despite this trend, availability of the crop in general has not been too much of an issue, although there has been some shortages in crop yield in China due to weather-related challenges; it has predominantly been demand (at any price level) and market mechanics that have driven prices to a 20+year re...