In recent years, Asia-Pacific has been the fastest-growing region for printing and ink, driven largely by expansion in China. China’s gross domestic product grew at 6.8 percent in 2008, and while that would be the envy of most nations, it was sluggish by China’s standards; the country enjoyed 11 percent growth in 2007. DIC’s mother plant in Nantong city in Jiangsu province was constructed in 2001, and provides base inks for DIC’s production sites in China. The Chinese p...