Flint To Establish Chinese Fluid Ink Business

Flint Ink has taken initial steps towards building a fluid ink manufacturing company to serve the rapidly expanding Chinese package printing market.

Flint Ink has taken initial steps towards building a fluid ink manufacturing company to serve the rapidly expanding Chinese package printing market.

Subject to local government approval, the new company will be called Flint Ink (Guangzhou) Printing Ink Co.

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A plant is to be built in Guangzhou, China, in the southern part of the country, not far from Hong Kong.

In addition to manufacturing water-based and solvent-based inks for the packaging market, the new plant will serve as a blending site for sheetfed inks.

The development follows the opening of Flint's news and heatset manufacturing centre in Beijing, earlier this year.

According to Henry Leong, the president of Flint Ink Asia, the building project will be carried out in two phases.

The first phase, which includes company registration, land acquisition, and detailed engineering design work, has already begun.

"The Chinese packaging market is expected to grow from 10 per cent to 12 per cent in the next decade.

This plant, together with the plant in Beijing will allow us to serve printers in the entire primary printing markets in China.

In addition, Guangzhou is a strategic foothold for expanding our business into the broader Southeast Asian market," said Leong.

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