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Sun Chemical Rises

How the ink industry's largest company got to where it is today, and how its leaders plan to avoid the mistakes that decimated Inmont and others.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Today, anyone unfamiliar with the printing ink business would have a hard time envisioning Sun Chemical Corporation as anything but the leader of the industry. After all, the company projects its 2000 sales at well over $4 billion, primarily in inks and pigments. Combined with its parent corporation, Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, Inc. (DIC), which bought Sun Chemical in 1987, the company controls $4 billion of the approximately $12 billion worldwide ink market. However...

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