The hottest M & a trend in the global ink industry

In recent years, the global ink manufacturing industry has experienced turbulence and mergers, but it still maintained a stable and rising situation, but the overall growth slowed down. Among them, the ink industry in Japan and Germany grew faster. Among the top 20 enterprises in global ink sales in 2004, 7 are Japanese companies, accounting for about 60% of the total global ink sales; 7 are German companies, accounting for 15% of the total global ink sales

at the same time, the prices of crude oil and petrochemical products continue to rise, as well as the supply shortage of main raw materials, resulting in the increase of ink production costs, and the profits of ink enterprises generally decline. Many ink enterprises are in a state of low profit or even loss. Increasing the price of ink has been a helpless move for ink enterprises and enterprises. However, judging from the recent situation, the price of raw materials will not have a significant downward trend in a short period of time. All ink enterprises should take positive measures, such as adjusting production processes, increasing product innovation, etc

there is a wave of mergers and acquisitions among ink enterprises

with the increasing competitive pressure, there is a wave of mergers and acquisitions among ink enterprises and a new industrial pattern has been formed

Greater Japan ink chemical industry Co., Ltd. (DIC) has become the giant of the world's ink enterprises by acquiring Sun Chemical of the United States and Coates lorileus of France

after flint, ink merged sacramen-1-o and nkcompany in 1999, it acquired the business of gebr.schmidt in Europe and Canada in 2002. In March, 200s, Flint acquired the global thermosetting and cold setting ink business of SCPA, Switzerland. In exchange, Sikh gained access to the global business of fulint banknote and note printing safety inks

in 2004, BASF pringting systems and ani prting inks merged to establish XSYS printing solution 8 You can set the comparison table of ambient temperature force values for different models (the companies shown in the following table.

on September 30, 2005, XSYS printing solutions and flint Ink Co., Ltd. completed the merger, which will form an ink production giant with an annual sales of $2.6 billion, only second to the Greater Japan/sunchem consortium.

in September 2005, Siegwerk completed the acquisition of sikba packaging ink department. Through this acquisition, shengweike has become the second largest packaging ink manufacturer in the world, and ranks among the top five ink manufacturers in the world

in October 2005, the German amber group announced the acquisition of more than 50% of the shares of Indian micro inks. At present, the acquisition is still in the approval stage and is expected to be completed in January 2006. Once the acquisition is completed, the annual turnover of amber group will reach US $100 million per day, making it the fourth largest manufacturer of printing inks and varnish products in the world

mergers and acquisitions and cooperation have improved the development ability of multinational ink enterprises; Consolidate the core competitiveness in technology and realize complementary advantages; Further expand the market; Realize joint procurement and relieve the increasing cost pressure

the problem of dirty barrels has been fundamentally eliminated. The ink is heated by the IR heater on the gripper. The giant competes with China.

since the end of the last century, with the rapid development of China's ink industry, the ink output has always ranked fourth in the world. Unable to resist the great temptation of the Chinese market, the world ink giants have established and expanded their production bases in China

toyoink of Japan has successively invested in the construction of Jiangmen Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Tianjin Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Shanghai Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Zhuhai Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., and Toyo ink (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. in China. In 2004, Shanghai Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a new company invested in China, has officially opened

Japan ink chemical industry Co., Ltd. has set up ink production plants in China, including Shanghai DC Ink Co., Ltd., Shenzhen shenri Ink Co., Ltd., Taiyuan Gaoshi Laurie ink Chemical Co., Ltd., Guangzhou (Gaoshi) Ink Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Gaoshi Laurie Ink Co., Ltd. and Yunnan dieson Ink Co., Ltd

Japan sakataink Co., Ltd. (sakataink) has established Maoming ink factory producing offset printing ink and Nansha ink factory producing ink for metal can printing in China. In 2004, it invested in the construction of sakataink (organic-inorganic composite materials can be tested as non combustible A-class Shanghai according to the abolished 1997 standard) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai

in 2004, Flint ink (Beijing) Co., Ltd., a joint venture of flint Ink Co., Ltd. in Beijing Daxing, was officially put into production

domestic ink enterprises have actively responded to

since the reform and opening up, China's ink industry has continued to grow steadily and at a high speed, and the year-on-year growth rate of annual output and annual consumption has remained above 10%. At present, there are more than 400 ink manufacturing enterprises in China, with about 70:6 distributed in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong, Hebei and other regions. However, there is no... - the output of individual industries can reach 10% of the total output of ink in the country. Domestic ink enterprises generally have many problems, such as small scale, lack of talents, insufficient funds, low R & D investment, weak technological innovation ability, and production technology lags behind the world level

the large-scale entry of foreign capital has led to an unprecedented increase in the production capacity of China's ink industry, but it also has a great impact on domestic small and medium-sized ink enterprises. How to remain invincible in the cruel market has become a serious problem for domestic ink manufacturing enterprises. In order to compete and compete with foreign ink giants, domestic ink enterprises must understand their own strengths and weaknesses, develop their strengths and circumvent their weaknesses, actively participate in competition, grasp opportunities, and learn to cooperate and innovate with foreign ink giants; Try to expand the international market, especially the market of the third world countries; Improve the management level of innovation capacity, gradually expand the scale, and further improve the market share