Raw Material Supply Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

In recent years, ink industry purchasing executives have had to cope with a range of concerns, from titanium dioxide in 2017, photoinitiators and their precursors in 2018, and pigments such as Pigment Yellow 74 in 2019. On top of that, there was a trade war brewing between the US and China. However, nothing could have prepared purchasing executives for the COVID-19 pandemic. The human toll alone – more than 850,000 deaths worldwide, 180,000 deaths in the US alone – is devastating. The attempts ...