Friday, September 27, 2013

Flint Warns Ink Prices to Rise

http://www.printweek.com/news/login/1213718/
Senior vice president of procurement Jan Paul van der Velde told PrintWeek: "Certain raw materials prices are increasing fast. How this will impact the current commercial agreements will differ case by case. What is key is the impact will ultimately flow through into the market.
"Different cost drivers are having different effects in different market segments. The key issues revolve around publication inks, given the situation of rising prices for gum rosin and crude oil based products."
He said despite hopes prices would fall this year, the price of crude went up. In the first half of this year as many raw materials went up in price as came down. Crude today trades at around $110 per barrel, significantly above any level that people had forecast at the end of 2012.