The daunting challenges that the printing ink industry has faced in the past few years are well known to all of us. The slow decline in the publication printing industry has been ongoing for a while now. The sudden surge in crude oil prices that began in 2005 and continued practically unabated for the next few years led to a rapid escalation in raw material prices in virtually every key ingredient for ink manufacturing. The global recession, which began more than a year ago, was particularly de...