In late 1999, George Sickinger, who was then vice president and general manager of Borden Chemical’s Ink Division, took the dramatic step of beginning the process to secure funding and acquiring the division himself, and set out to form an independent ink company. The new company was named Color Resolutions International (CRI), a nod to the importance of providing resolutions to the application of color. The company would focus on its core market of corrugated, where it was the second-largest...