Materials Increases Prompts Sun to Raise Ink Prices

PARSIPPANY, NJ—Faced with continued increases in the costs of raw materials and the impact of recent events in the global supply chain, Sun Chemical will raise its domestic ink prices in the United States. The increases are 14 percent for commercial and packaging energy curable (EC) paste inks and EC coatings, 4 percent for packaging solvent-based inks, 8 percent for packaging water-based inks and 6 percent for UV flexo inks.