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Kao Agrees to Acquire Chimigraf Holding, S.L.

Chimigraf Holding develops, manufactures and sells flexographic ink and inkjet ink for package printing.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Kao Corporation has concluded an agreement to acquire the business of Chimigraf Holding, S.L., Barcelona, Spain, through a Kao Group company in Europe.   Kao has been developing water-based pigment dispersions and ink to propose a new value in the inkjet ink market for industrial printing.   By further applying “pigment nano dispersion technology” cultivated by Kao for years, in March this year Kao succeeded in developing the world’s first water-based pigment inkjet ink for printing on film ...

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