David Meldram, president of Sun Inks Europe and senior vice president Sun Chemical, is set to leave the business and his position will not be replaced.

Rudi Lenz, president and chief executive of Sun Chemical, will take on responsibility for the Sun Inks Europe business and current business leaders will report directly to him.

The division's leaders that cover areas including human resources, purchasing, operations, finance and environment, health and safety, and security, will now report to their respective global functional heads.

Lenz said: "In these very challenging times for our industry, it is very important that Sun brings all its global resources to help our customers become more successful.

"Our customers expect the highest levels of service and we believe that we can enhance this and the growth of our own European business through a more global structure."