Sun Chemical

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2011 edition.

ROCHESTER, NY—Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group will increase the worldwide prices of its digital and conventional plates as of May 1. The company cited the “sustained, universal rise” in costs for key raw materials and utilities used in the production of offset plates in announcing the new rates.

Sun will raise prices on April 1, 2011, by 4 percent for SunLit Diamond, SunLit Intense and SunLit Exact sheetfed process color inks and 8 percent for all other sheetfed process color inks. The increase will be 7 percent for energy curable commercial printing inks.

PARSIPPANY, NJ—Faced with what it described as continued increases in the costs of raw materials and volatility in the global supply chain, Sun Chemical revealed it will raise product prices in North America effective Feb. 1. 

Faced with continued increases in the costs of raw materials and volatility in the global supply chain, Sun Chemical will raise product prices on Feb. 1, 2011 in North America. Non-traditional factors that began early in 2010 to impact the price of major feedstocks and raw materials continue.

NEW YORK—The advisory board of New York University’s Graphic Communications Management and Technology Program today named Thomas  Quinlan, president and CEO of RR Donnelley, the winner of the 2011 Prism Award. The Prism Award is presented annually in recognition of distinguished leadership in the graphic communications media industry.

Violet 23 pigments are used in a variety of conventional sheetfed and UV inks at Sun Chemical. Two of the key raw materials needed for the production of the Violet 23 pigment, carbazole and chloranil, have faced a significant supply shortage in both China and Germany due to consolidations and increased demand.

Those lithographic printers walking the show floor earlier this month at Graph Expo in search of a bevy of heavy-iron, offset presses were sorely disappointed. With press manufacturers Heidelberg USA, Komori America and Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses opting to pass on this year's show, the South Hall at McCormick Place lacked the all-encompassing lineup of traditional press vendors that visitors in years past have come to expect.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions' October 2010 edition.

Murray replaces Brian Leen, who is leaving the graphic arts industry after an 18 year career at Sun Chemical. He brings 27 years of industry experience and knowledge to the position and corporate vice president of Sun Chemical’s business in the U.K., Ireland and Nordic markets.