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Ink Industry Mourns Lise Carey

Carey was given a patent on the world’s first one-part ready mixed metallic offset ink and created the first one-part flexo/gravure water based metallic ink.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Lise Carey passed away on June 16, 2021 in France, just a few months shy of being 100 years old. After getting her chemical engineering degree in France, Lise Carey took over the family business of metallic pigments and metallic inks with her husband, John Carey. She owned and managed the business, did the formulations and was given a patent on the world’s first one-part ready mixed metallic offset ink. She later went on to create the first one-part flexo/gravure water based metallic ink. Lise ...

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