Ink Additives Market Trends

Key Emerging Trends in the Ink Additives Market

The ink additives market, as the pace of its changes is dynamic, only the concurrence of technological progress, ecology and consumers' whims is seen. What appears to be a notable change is the growing need for eco-friendly and sustainable inks formulae. Since environmental consciousness is a very important topic in the present, manufacturers are inventing different sorts of additives that reduce the ecological effect of printing processes. To this end, the Company comes up with the additives that favor the application of bio-based and water-inks instead of using traditional solvent-based inks.

Not only has Digital printing technologies reshaped the trends in Ink additives industry, but it has also created massive changes as well. As digital printing reaches higher levels of adoption in diverse industries, there is now a high demand for additives which perform optimally when applied to digital inkjet printing processes. These applications include but not limited to, enhancing the inks' adhesion on diverse substrates, color vibrancy that is commercial print quality needed by digital printers.

To meet the need for “times”, manufacturers are constantly developing new technologies to help formulate a new generation of ink additives. These additions are indeed targeted to be the solutions to the problems of the users but the solutions differ with the various problems that may arise among the users that range from improving the scratch resistance of printed materials, enhancing the drying speed of inks, and ensuring compatibility with different printing equipment. Innovation is the core essence of this tendency since this is the only way to remain competitive in the market with ever-growing technologies and different clients’ expectations in numerous sectors.

In particular, the setting of the rules and regulations as well as the adoption of the new requirements have a huge effect over the ink additives market. Governments and environmental agencies are enforcing more severe rules on sealings of chemicals in printing inks which, in turn, hardens manufacturers to gradually formulate their products to meet these new standards. The new regulation has redirected the preference towards the additive partially, which is in compliance with regulatory demands, guaranteeing the safety of the ink compositions as well as the environmental welfare.

Along with the globalization being mainly responsible for the shifts and trends in ink additives sector. As businesses are becoming more expansive in their activities across boarders, there is also the need for inks formulations that are capable of meeting international specs and requirements. Therefore, manufacturers have started making inks rather multi-purpose of which can be applied on many printing applications under manufacturers’ command to meet the varied need of customers all over the world.