Flint Announces Price Increases in Inks, Coatings

PLYMOUTH, Mich.—Flint Group North America has announced a six percent price increases on all energy curable inks and coatings for sheetfed, liquid packaging, and web offset applications, effective immediately.

Raw material costs and supply shortages are the main drivers of the price increase. The printing industry and its suppliers continue to fight the trend of increasing raw material costs, as well as the threat of global shortages of certain base materials that are integral to the manufacture of printing consumables.