Consumables

DIC Corporation is to acquire BASF’s global pigments business and integrate it into subsidiary Sun Chemical in a deal worth €1.15bn (£1.04bn).

Sun Chemical will launch SolarVerse, a new range of UV flexo base concentrates, at Labelexpo in Belgium next month.

Spandex has added a new product to its ImagePerfect range of specialist window and glass films.

Kodak is selling its Chinese plate factory to Lucky HuaGuang Graphics as part of a new partnership deal that will see HuaGuang license Kodak’s plate know-how.

Creasing matrix and profile rubbers manufacturer C&T Channel Matrix has introduced a new Pertinax counter sheet for carton manufacturing.

German ink pioneer Rudolf Epple has died at the age of 93 following a short illness.

Pressroom and pre-press consumables manufacturer and supplier Intuprint has become the official UK distributor for the Vulcan range of printing blankets and taken on a new blanket conversion and...

InkTec has launched Tex-Ra, its new removable and repositionable self-adhesive wallcovering.

Creasing matrix and profile rubbers manufacturer C&T Channel Matrix has expanded its steel cutting plate portfolio with the addition of new sizes.

Polypropylene sheet manufacturer and distributor Priplak has untangled itself from Arjowiggins following a management buyout led by its chief executive Thomas Godey.