Pub. Date: May 2006
Comb Bound: 700 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-126-4/978-1-59237-126-6
Price: $595.00

Many changes are occuring in the U.S printing ink industry. Digital printing is having an impact on traditional ink products, and ink jet is making inroads in applications now held by lithography, screen and other inks. Further trends are occuring in waterborne, waterless, and specialty inks. Electronics inks, a new technique, bear watching.

All of these topics are covered in detail in the new Rauch Guide to the US Ink Industry. If you are active in any segment of the business, whether in ink production, raw materials, packaging, consulting services, equipment, or other products/services, you will want a copy of the new edition of the report.

The Guide to this complex and diffuse $4.2 billion ink industry provides market facts and figures in a highly organized format, ideal for today's busy personnel. The report serves as a ready-reference for top executives as well as the industry newcomer. It saves time and money since it organizes the variety of widely scattered information and provides estimates for important topics, some of which are available no where else.

This comprehensive report provides information in a well-organized format in five chapters within its 189 pages, including 61 tables and nine figures. A look at the Table of Contents on pages 2 and 3 in the enclosed brochure illustrates the comprehensive coverage of the information.

Information includes:

• Economics. After a brief introduction, this section provides data on industry shipments; long-term growth and forecasts; prices; company performance; employment, expenditures, and productivity; transportation and geographical patterns; packaging; foreign trade; and government regulations.
  
  
• Technology and raw materials. These chapters provide market, technical, and raw material information for chemicals, equipment and related materials, including market size and leading suppliers, prices, end uses, and trends.
  
  
• Products and markets. These sections provide information for each major industry product, including market size and historical trends, leading suppliers, five-year forecasts, industry structure, and major end uses.
  
  
• Industry activities, organizations and sources of information. This chapter lists meetings, exhibits, and trade shows, sources of statistical information, trade associations, technical and professional societies, and trade and technical periodicals.
  
  
• Directory. This section profiles major industry companies, both public and private. Generally several hundered companies are analyzed. Information includes web address, estimated total and domestic sales, product description, and recent mergers and acquisitions.
  
  
• Appendixes. This section provides a cross-reference of suppliers, subsidiaries and divisions.
  
  

Users describe the Guide as the best single-source document for the entire US ink industry. Over 1,000 copies have been sold worldwide to producers of inks, raw material and equipment suppliers, consultants, investment bankers, and others with a stake in this fast changing industry.

We trust that you will find the Guide to be a worthwhile, cost-effective investment.

For information on Impact Marketing's Guide to the US Packaging Industry, please visit www.impactmarket.com.

Pub. Date: May 2006
Comb Bound: 700 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-126-4/978-1-59237-126-6
Price: $595.00

Note: If you find this work does not fit your budget, please print out this page and bring it to your local library. There is a reasonable chance they either have a copy, can direct you to a library that does, or will be willing to purchase it for their reference collection.