—  One week after Sun Chemicals announced price increases . Flint Group’s Offset Packaging Solutions and Commercial Publication Web Divisions to Announce Further Price Increases across Heatset Ink, News Ink, Sheetfed Ink, Transfer Media and Press Room Chemical Portfolios. The paradigm shifting impact of the global pandemic upon the printing consumables market continues unabated with further shortages of core raw materials, human resources and logistical services, creating previously unforeseen instability within the printing consumables global supply chain. Tony Lord President of Flint Group's CPW (Commercial Publication Web) and OPS (Offset Packaging Solutions) divisions said "this once in a generational event has created a structural scarcity of core raw materials as upstream precursor and primary raw material providers within the supply chain are directing their reduced capacity's to more lucrative industries than the printing consumables markets. This creates a binary impact of not only shortages of raw materials but an exponential increase in pricing for those raw materials we can obtain.” Flint and Sun Chemicals are the two largest ink and coatings manufactures in North America .