Flint has announced a 15-percent price increase on Varn Anti-Set-off spray powder. Like all spray powders, this product is starch based and that industry is experiencing a supply/demand imbalance due to years of sub-par crop yields, exacerbated by the drought.
Flint Group North America has announced an 8-percent price increase on spot-color inks and overprint varnishes used in sheetfed and heatset applications. In addition, it is instituting price increases of up to $1.25 on press washes used in sheeted and offset web applications. The increases take effect April 1.
“There is a misplaced view that raw material costs for the graphic art industry are coming down” says Jan Paul van der Velde, senior vice president procurement of Flint Group. “The reality is that, hardly any materials dropped significantly in price.”
WOA and Flint Group are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the H. Howard Flint II Pressroom Manager of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes pressroom managers or supervisors who have excelled in their profession and contributed above and beyond to their companies, customers and the printing industry.
PLYMOUTH, MI—Flint Group North America has announced a 10 percent price increase on heatset web offset printing inks used in commercial and publication markets. New prices will take effect on all heatset process inks, blends and OPVs ordered in the United States and Canada on or after June 1, subject to existing contracts.
Flint Group North America has announced a 10 percent price increase on on all heatset web offset process inks, blends and OPVs ordered in the United States and Canada on or after June 1, 2011, subject to existing contracts. “Since January, costs have continued to increase substantially for all the major raw materials used in heatset inks,” notes Michael Podd, business director, Heatset Inks, Flint Group.
PLYMOUTH, MI—Flint Group North America has announced a 7 percent price increase on energy curable/UV inks and coatings used in sheetfed and web offset printing. New prices were effective on all products ordered in the United States and Canada on or after May 1, 2011, subject to existing contracts.
The 7 percent price increase on Flint energy curable/UV inks and coatings used in sheetfed and offset web printing applies to all products ordered in the United States and Canada on or after May 1, 2011, subject to existing contracts.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2011 edition.
Several hundreds of gallons of ink splattered [be sure to check out the colorful photo and video] onto the highway this morning, said Joe Ferson, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Approximately 16,000 pounds of ink cartridges from Flint Group Inks, an Indianapolis-based company selling printing and packaging products, was bound for a newspaper company in Portland, ME. Red, blue and yellow ink cartridges were inside the truck, but Ferson said there is no evidence the yellow ink was released.
The ink reached two storm drains, but it is not considered a hazardous material.
