At present, the global printing industry can be described as two-fold, with the printing market in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions continuing to grow, while the printing markets in Japan and Europe and the United States have stagnated or even declined; some sub-sectors such as packaging and UV printing have performed well. However, the field of publishing and commercial printing has been difficult to hide.

Changes in the printing industry have also had a significant impact on the ink industry because it is crucial for ink manufacturers to grow together with customers. Successful companies are good at finding business opportunities in the fierce market competition. In the context of the challenges faced by the global ink market, which ink manufacturers can win? Perhaps the 2013 World Ink Sales Top 20 list published by Ink World magazine can give us some inspiration. The sales of these 20 ink manufacturers exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars, which is closely linked with their pulse in the market and adjustment of product structure and business strategy.

In 2013, the list of top 20 global ink sales companies was announced

Moreover, from the recent introduction of some new products by ink giants, ink manufacturers are focusing their R&D efforts on such areas as packaging printing and UV printing.

UVLED curing technology has been favored by printers due to its outstanding advantages. Ink manufacturers have also taken advantage of this, and have stepped up research and development of new UVLED ink products with better performance. For example, the EkoCureUVLED ink developed by Flint Group and McAndy was awarded the 2013 Innovation Award for the Label Industry Global Awards. In recent months, Flint Group has also introduced the EkoCureUVLED series of flexo varnishes, shrink film printing white inks, metallic inks and rotary screen printing white inks.

Another high-profile ink technology is low-migration ink, especially in the food and pharmaceutical packaging field. Both processors and end-users are very concerned about the potential safety hazards of the package, so the lower migration of the ink is higher. The request. Sun Chemical's SunPak LMQ inks for food, pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical packaging, TempoNUTRIPACK2 food packaging inks for the new Siegwerk Group, Lithocure ANCORA inks for Flint Group's labels and food packaging, and INXFlexUVCLMII from INX International Ink, etc. are products with low migration properties.