The consumption of inks has been growing over the past few years in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, fueled primarily by a general economic upturn in these countries. With a population of 32 million, Uzbekistan is the biggest ink market in Central Asia. In 2014, Islam Karimov, the late president of the country, listed inks among the goods on which the national government must target import replacement. In this regard, it was decided to provide state support to the Tashkent-based Uzbek-Korean joint ve...