SICPA Group

de Florissant 41
1008 Prilly
Switzerland
Phone: +41-21-627-5555
Fax: +41-21-627-5515
Internet: www.sicpa.com
E-mail: sicpa@sicpa.com

Sales: $685 million (1.1 billion CHF).

Major Products: Security inks for currency, valuable documents and other securities; offset inks for packaging and publication; flexo, gravure and screen inks for packaging.

Key Personnel: Jean Daloglou, president and CEO, SICPA Group; Daniel Braun, CFO, SICPA Group; Lando Ferretti, managing director, SICPA Security Systems; Michel Rostagno, managing director, Europe and Africa, commercial inks business unit; Juan-Carlos Salaberry, managing director, Americas, commercial inks business unit; Philip Pryor, managing director, Asia, commercial inks business unit.

Number of Employees: 3,600 worldwide.

Comments: SICPA had a strong 2001, with sales up 3.6 percent. SICPA’s inks can be found throughout the world of currency and security documents. SICPA estimates that its inks are used in 90 percent of the world’s banknotes, largely due to the company’s emphasis on defeating counterfeiters through R&D and cutting-edge technologies.

The company offers a variety of new inks: Tempo (for sheetfed offset); Access, (nitrocellulose-based solutions for flexible applications), Option (nitrocellulose-based, totally ester-free for flexible applications) and Focus (the PVB system for technically demanding applications) in flexo and gravure; Uni (for all paper and board water-based flexo applications): and Sicura UV letterpress and screen inks.

 

Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.

 

3-13 Kyobashi
2-chome, Chuo-Ku
Tokyo 104-8377
Japan
Phone: +81-3-3272-5741
Fax: +81-3-3278-9897
Internet: www.toyoink.co.jp;
www.toyoinkus.com (U.S.)
E-mail: master@toyoink.co.jp;
master@toyoinkus.com (U.S.)

Sales: $662 million (87,991 billion yen) in printing ink; consolidated results: $1.67 billion (222,359 billion yen).

Major Products: Heatset/coldset web, sheetfed, waterless and UV/EB, news offset; solvent and water-based packaging, solvent publication gravure; solvent-, water-based and UV/EB flexo; letterpress; solvent-based and UV screen; dry and liquid toners and ink jet inks.

Key Personnel: Mutsuo Nagashima, chairman; Kunio Sakuma, president; Tsuneo Tanaka and Yoshio Usui, senior managing directors; Keizou Yamaguchi, Norio Fukumura, Kazumi Shiina and Yasukuni Odaka, managing directors.

Number of Employees: 6,508 (group in total).

Comments: Toyo Ink had a solid 2001, as printing ink sales company-wide essentially remained stable, increasing 0.3 percent.

While the domestic sheetfed market remained sluggish due to the economic downturn and resulting decrease in demand, sales fared much better in China, Asia and the Middle East. In news ink, sales domestically fell.

UV remains a mainstay for Toyo Ink, as the company continues to emphasize environmentally friendly solutions. Gravure inks made gains in Thailand and Indonesia, and toluene-free gravure inks for film-laminated cans and soft packaging materials were strong domestically for the first half of 2001 before tailing off in the second half of the year.

In order to maintain leading market shares, the company is developing a number of new products, including UV cure and soybean oil-based inks, and expanding market shares of the environmentally friendly gravure inks and aroma-free newspaper inks.

Toyo Ink is continuing with the second step of its Take Off 2007 long-term business plan, which has the objective of establishing the top brand in the company’s fields of operation. Toyo Ink is also intensifying its efforts to develop its business in key growth areas, including China, the Middle East and Vietnam.

BASF Drucksysteme GmbH

 

Sieglestrasse 25
70469 Stuttgart-Feuerbach
Germany
Phone: +49(0)711/9816-0
Fax: +49(0)711/9816-700
Internet: www.basf-printingsystems.com
E-Mail: info@basf-drucksysteme.d0

Sales: $616.9 million (E625 million)

Key Personnel: Jürgen Steinmetz, president; Dr. Stefan Wegener, business director, offset, PG; Dr. Paolo Zumaglini, business director, liquid inks; Dr. Thomas Telser, business director, printing plates.

Major Products: K+E and Fishburn web coldset, web heatset, sheetfed and UV offset; solvent-, water-based and UV flexo; publication and packaging gravure; letterpress; fountain solutions, overprint varnishes, specialties and printing plates.

Number of Employees: 2,500.

Comments: BASF Drucksysteme GmbH had a solid year of growth in 2002, posting a sales increase of 4 percent. In particular, the company has concentrated on international customer groups, utilizing key account management.

As its customers create greater efficiency in print processes by using newly developed presses, BASF Drucksysteme GmbH is developing advanced ink series and improving the use of synergies between inks and plates.

BASF Drucksyteme GmbH has also implemented business unit structuring in the BASF group, and is focusing on further investment in market positions overseas.

Tokyo Printing Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.

2-7-15, Tabatashinmachi
Kita-ku, Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +03-5692-7314
Fax: +03-5692-7341
Internet: www.tokyoink.co.jp
E-mail: ftd@tokyoink.co.jp

Sales: $429.4 million (53.841 billion yen).

Major Products: Sheetfed and heatset offset inks; gravure inks for paper, plastic film and other applications.

Key Personnel: Atsuo Ohashi, president; Kenzou Kawaziri and Yoshihiko Yokota, senior managing directors; Yasumori Tanaka, managing director; Michio Takao and Shigeru Katabami, directors

Number of Employees: 786.

Comments: Tokyo Printing Ink was affected by the downward trend in the economy, as its sales declined 5.7 percent. The company is looking for a rebound in 2003, led by its Zipset offset line, including sheetfed, heatset, UV, metallic, rubber-based and magnetic inks and process and Pantone colors.

The company manufactures specialty chemicals including printing inks, color and additive concentrates and compounds, and the company’s expertise in color formulating and polymer modifying technology offers customers best solutions for improving their products.


Huber Gruppe

Feldkirchenerstrasse 15
D81111 Kirchheim Heimstetten
Germany
Phone: +49-89-9003-0
Fax: +49-89-9003-222
Internet www.huber-gruppe.de

Sales: $380 million (approximately E390 million).

Major Products: Sheetfed, coldset and heatset offset inks; water- and solvent-based gravure packaging inks; water and solvent-based flexo packaging inks; letterpress inks; security and intaglio inks; heat transfer inks; and toners for laser printers and copiers.

Key Personnel: Heiner Ringer, CEO; Winfried Gleue (Hostmann Steinberg Canada/U.S.)

Number of Employees: Approximately 1,800 worldwide.

Comments: Part of MHM Holding Group, the Huber-Gruppe consists of 21 international companies, including Hostmann-Steinberg Printing Inks, Stehlin + Hostag AG and Gleitsman Security Inks GmbH. Overall, the company is an industry leader in both the offset and packaging markets in the domestic market and abroad, where the company earns more than half of its sales.


Siegwerk Druckfarben AG
Alfred-Keller-Strasse 55
D-53721 Siegburg, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)2241-304 732
Fax: +49-(0)2241-304 330
Internet: www.siegwerk.com
E-mail: uk@siegwerk.de

Sales: $343.6 million (E350 million).

Major Products: Packaging inks and special inks for flexographic and gravure printing, publication gravure printing inks, web offset heatset inks, news inks (coldset), UV/EB curable ink systems, printing varnishes and printing additives.

Key Personnel: Herbert Forker, president and CEO; president, business unit print-media; Ralf Hildenbrand, member of the board, president, business unit packaging; Dr. Oliver Wittmann, member of the board, CFO.

Number of Employees: 1,100 worldwide

Comments: Siegwerk Druckfarben AG had an extremely active 2002, beginning with Siegwerk’s conversion to a public limited company in August. By doing so, the company is focusing on foreign markets with strong growth potential as well as improving efficiency, and is securing its independence.

“In Europe, we just founded Siegwerk Ink in Great Britain, a new distribution company,” said Herbert Forker, chairman of the board of directors. “A new production site opened in Poland in September. The establishment of our own company in Brazil is about to take place. We will also intensify our presence in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal this year.” To implement these plans, investments amounting to e75 million are planned by 2004, of this e20 million this year.

In Germany, Poland, the U.S. and Thailand, the Siegwerk group possesses its own production sites, and produces 150,000 tons of ink annually. The company plans to construct world-class facilities in Germany in the near future.

In a significant move, Siegwerk Druckfarben transferred ownership of its sheetfed offset printing ink division to the newly-formed Sicolor GmbH Neusass/Augsburg, which is partially owned by Epple Druckfarben as of Jan. 2, 2002. Sicolor has a license to produce the original Siegwerk formulations at Epple Druckfarben and will take over all selling activities as well as R&D for the sheetfed offset market.

By becoming a public limited company, in which all shares remain in private hands, Siegwerk plans on remaining independent.

"Siegwerk Druckfarben AG will remain operating as an independent company thanks to modern organization and effective processes and, in the future, be even more successful than before,” Mr. Forker concluded.


Inctec Inc.

450, Aoto-Cho, Midori-ku
Yokohama
Japan
Phone: +8-45-932-5121
Fax: +81-45-933-7422
Internet: www.dnp.co.jp/inctec/home.htm

Sales: $341 million (42.630 billion yen).

Major Products: Sheetfed, web offset (heat, coldset), waterless, UV offset, news, solvent-based and water-based gravure, UV/water-based flexo, digital ink and toner.

Key Personnel: Shigemitsu Hatakeyama, president; Tomio Koike, senior executive officer, sales division; Takao Suzuki, senior executive officer; Takeo Muranaka, executive officer, manufacturing and technical division.

Number of Employees: 860.

Comments: 2001 was a challenging year for Inctec Inc. The downturn in the economy in Japan has taken a toll on printing, and thereby, ink sales. The sales of Inctec Inc.’s news and offset inks had a gain, but overall sales decreased slightly.

In its five-year plan, Inctec Inc. is expanding into the field of non-ink products such as etchant, photoresist and color resist, while maintaining its strong position in the traditional ink business, where it yields 60 percent of its total revenues.

For that purpose, Inctec Inc. has reorganized the engineering units into three groups: the core ink business, chemicals and others. In addition, another group integrated with the purpose to speed up development of new products of information media supplies as well as keep close contact with potential customers has been formed.

In its core ink business, Inctec Inc. has continued to emphasize its commitment to environmentally friendly products with its work to be certified for ISO 14001 in February 2002.

[时间：2003-06-05  作者：Bisenet  来源：Bisenet]