Rising input costs, shrinking margins trigger ink hike fear - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

The ink market size is valued at approximately Rs 5,000-crore, which is under 5% of the size of the Indian printing industry, which is pegged at approximately 1,90,000-crore (The NPES/PRIMIR World Wide Market for Print study, by the Economist Intelligence Unit, estimated the Indian print industry size to grow to US$29.3 billion in 2017). The Indian printing ink industry is bearing the brunt of the changing market scenarios, a major reason being rising cost of raw material, which the ink

by Noel D'Cunha