Flint Group News & Information

05 May 2016

Binding Offer

Flint Group Issues Binding Offer to Siegwerk to Purchase Web Offset Business Flint Group, a global solutions provider to the packaging and print media industries has today announced that it has issued a binding offer to Siegwerk to acquire their web offset business. This offer includes the transfer of all technical expertise and product portfolios relating to Siegwerk’s Heatset and Newsi...

05 May 2016

Flint Group Earns Bio Deriv...

Flint Group Earns Bio-derived Renewable Certification of Offset Inks K+E® Arrowstar™, Starbase™ and Arroweb™ ink series have earned bio-renewable content (BRC) certification Each ink offers high levels of bio-renewable content for its respective technology The inks are used in commercial, publication and packaging applications Plymouth, MI USA (September...

05 May 2016

1120 Security Conference

Flint Group at Pan European Security Conference Flint Group Flexographic Products raised a lot of interest with ‘Digital Imaging – New Standards in Security Printing’ From April 13 to April 15, 2010 the 7th Pan European High Security Printing Conference took place in Berlin, Germany. The event attracted 260 participants and 40 exhibitors from 34 countries. The foc...

05 May 2016

1130 Orgaflexo

Flint Group - Organisational Changes Thomas Telser, President of Flint Group Flexographic Products, will become Chairman – Packaging Segment effective July 1st 2010. In this newly established role, he will give strategic guidance to the Flint Group divisions Flexographic Products and Global Packaging & Narrow Web. Thomas Telser started his career with BASF in 1986 and sinc...

05 May 2016

1140 Rawmat PNW

Raw materials and the ink industry - Challenging times ahead The beginning of 2010 has been marked by amongst other things, with a slight reverse in industry fortunes and while it is clear that market demand has certainly increased (particularly in Asia were the economy in China grew in the first quarter of 2010 by over 12%) the economic revival has caused a supply / demand imb...

05 May 2016

1150 PI PME

Flint Group Announces Price Increases in Heatset, Coldset, Sheetfed Inks and Pressroom Chemicals Recession driven supply chain de-stocking and lack of replacement capacity mixed with increased global demand for key raw materials is forcing costs of ink production up. In some cases raw materials have risen by more than 50% in the last six months, and the outlook offers no sign o...

05 May 2016

1160 PI PNW

Raw material cost increases and its effect on the Cost of Ink. Flint Group announces price increase for Narrow Web inks in Europe The beginning of 2010 has been marked by amongst other things, with a slight reverse in industry fortunes and while it is clear that market demand has certainly increased (particularly in Asia were the economy in China grew in the first ...

05 May 2016

1165 PI HS NA

North America: Flint Group Announces Price Increase on Heatset & Directory Inks in the U.S. and Canada. Plymouth, MI USA – Ongoing raw material trends, including supply shortages, have pushed up the price of pigments, resins and other intermediates used in the manufacture of heatset & directory inks in North America. As a result, Flint Group has announced price increases on...

05 May 2016

1170 PI Packaging

Increasing raw material cost pressure now also affecting prices of packaging inks Flint Group announces price increase for packaging inks in Europe As recently reviewed by several industry associations and having been underlined by numerous price increase announcements of chemicals suppliers the cost of key raw materials for inks have risen dramatically, in some ca...

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