Raw Material Reports

Challenges Continue With Raw Materials, Logistics

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The past five years have been difficult for supply chains. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges in the raw material supply chain, but the problems have been going on before the pandemic. Before the pandemic, there were a variety of problems in certain raw materials. For example: • In 2017, titanium dioxide was hard to get for ink manufacturers as a result of consolidation among Chinese TiO2 manufacturers and a fire at a major plant in Finland. • In 2018, photoinitiators becam...

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