Moorpark, California

WOOD DALE, IL -- Toyo Ink America, LLC, a member of the worldwide Toyo Ink Group, announced that it has expanded production of liquid and ultraviolet inks for packaging applications, in the North America region. The company recently relocated its headquarters to a more spacious, state-of-the-art facility in Wood Dale, Illinois. The roughly 109,000-square-foot-facility dramatically boosts the company's production, development and technical support capability by affording room for new equipment, an expanded R&D laboratory and an increase in sales and technical staff. At the new site Toyo Ink America plans to produce and develop water- and solvent-based liquid inks,

Last year marked further consolidation in the global narrow web inks market. Ink suppliers wrestled with shortages of key ingredients while meeting the challenges presented by new label materials and production techniques. One of the biggest global consolidations was Siegwerk acquiring Environmental Inks and Coatings Corporation (EIC). EIC serves the packaging and label manufacturing industries in the US and Canada with water-based and energy curable inks and coatings. The newly formed organization will operate as ‘Environmental Inks – a member