The pigments market in Europe, like other major raw material sectors for printing inks, is facing the key issue of what will happen to demand once the lockdown across the region to combat the coronavirus outbreak (COVID) has been lifted. In a world economic outlook bulletin in April 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was predicting that after a double-digit plunge in GDP in the second quarter, the 19-country euro area would record an average 7.5% drop in output this year with similar d...