Economic Crisis Of The International Top Ten Ink Manufacturer - Silk Screen Printing Industry,

With the crisis, the decline in market demand and raw material prices, the world's top ten last year, ink manufacturers have ushered in an unprecedented challenge.



HC screen Special Indian network With the outbreak of the crisis, the market demand and raw material prices decline, the world's top ten last year, ink manufacturers have ushered in an unprecedented challenge.



1, DIC Group (including solar Chemical industry Company)

Tel: +81 3-3272-4511 Fax: +81 3-3278-8558 Website: DIC: www.dic.co.jp

Sun Chemical: www.sunchemical.com Sell Amount: DIC were in the printing market, the company made sales of 5.91 billion U.S. dollars, Sun Chemical's sales of close to 40 billion U.S. dollars, so the group's total sales of 9.59 billion U.S. dollars.



Main Products: Rotary heatset and sheetfed offset inks, publication and packaging gravure printing ink, news ink and publication of cold-type printing inks, flexo packaging inks, corrugated packaging inks, energy curable inks and Paint , Screen printing ink, toner, inkjet materials, packaging, adhesives, glazing, special paint, special effect inks, security inks co-coating, printing Consumables And organic pigments, plastics, paints, coatings and cosmetics.



Key: Chairman Koji Oe, President and CEO Kazuo Sugie.

Number of employees: 23,613 people worldwide.

Comments: DIC Group in fiscal year 2008 (ended March 2009 31) encountered unprecedented difficulties, the total annual sales of 95.9 billion dollars, down 13.5% in 2007. In addition, the company's profit and operating income declined in varying degrees, the latter declined even more than 47%.



DIC Group's annual report, according to: the company's fiscal year 2008, always in a very difficult market environment, the first half of fiscal year of crude oil and light oil (naphtha) prices soaring cost of raw materials driven up; the second half of the economic crisis has severely affected the main market for ink products. Which, DIC printing materials sales fell 11.1%, while the print market in the cosmetics, DIC sales decreased by 3.4%.



The positive side, for flexible packaging, beverage containers and in particular Food Packaging gravure printing inks market outlook optimistic, but offset ink sales have fallen, reflecting the publication and Advertisement Leaflets and other sales weakness. In addition, the news ink sales have decreased by the number of printing and reduce the impact of newspaper pages.



Good news is that DIC Group's net sales in Asia and Oceania fell by only 3.1 percent, and sales growth in India has achieved good results, especially in their news and gravure printing inks.



2, Flint Group Tel: +49 7119816230 Fax: +49 711981699230 URL: www.flintgrp.com Sales of 3.38 billion U.S. dollars (24 billion euros).



Main products: cold-type and heatset web offset inks, flexo, gravure and UV / EB inks, suitable for publication, news, packaging and commercial printing of paint and a series of narrow web label and Trademark printing inks, photographic resin plates, flexo sleeve, high Blanket And offset sleeve, printing supplies and spare parts, paint, chips and resin, aqueous dispersion, ultra-dispersant and Additive And so on.



Key: Chairman and CEO CharlesKnott, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Michael J. Bissel.

Number of employees: 7,200 people worldwide.

Comments: on the ink industry, the 2008 is a very difficult year, Flint Group is no exception?? Although the group achieved sales growth, profit remained stable.



CEO CharlesKnott Flint said: "The printing ink industry in 2008 to everyone challenged, Flint's performance is satisfactory, net sales the previous year growth, profits remained stable. "



"Even before the economic crisis in the printing industry is full of challenges. The decline in global demand for printing in the supply chain has had an impact in all aspects. Even as big companies like Flint also must be flexible and can respond to these challenges. We own main focus was on the choice of growth opportunities, technology development and deliver real value for our customers top. "



Flint Group is focused through the use of internal capacity to create value-added services to customers, and through lower costs and expand cooperation to enhance the customer's cost efficiency.



3, Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. Tel: +81-3-3272-5720 Fax: +81-3-3272-9788 URL: www.toyoink.co.jp

E-mail: master@toyoink.co.jp Sales: printing ink and graphic arts supplies sales of 13.6 billion U.S. dollars, the company's total sales of 2.47 billion U.S. dollars.



Main Products: printing ink, news ink, UV curable inks, gravure inks, printing supplies, printing equipment, coating finishing agent, resin, adhesive, wax, laminating adhesives, coatings and related materials, paint, plastic color agents, media materials and natural products.



Key: President and CEO KunioSakuma, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Norio Fukumura, Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer Takeshi Suzuki, senior managing director Masaru Maeda.



Number of employees: 6860 persons. Comments: by the financial crisis, the Toyo Ink Group, both sales and earnings in fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009) has decreased.



Toyo Ink YuAdachi corporate communications director, said: "Our business environment continues to worsen, in addition to the shrinkage of the domestic printing market than previously strong demand for LCD and other consumer electronics, electrical and automotive markets have emerged varying degrees of depression. and with the yen's appreciation and rising raw material prices, our profits have fallen. "



In response to sluggish economic environment, Toyo Ink Company