- Company:
- Flint Group
- Industry:
- Printing inks/plates/blankets/pigments
- Sector:
- Manufacturing
- Current/Previous:
- Current
- Turnover:
- €2,100 million (2009)
- Employees:
- 7,332
- Acquired:
- November 2004
- Country:
- Germany
- CEO:
- Charles Knott
In November 2004, CVC funds acquired BDS (BASF Drucksysteme) and ANI, two competing European inks companies, subsequently renamed Xsys Print Solutions (“Xsys”).
In September 2005, Xsys acquired Flint Ink Corporation of the US and Flint-Schmidt of Europe and subsequently renamed the combined entity Flint Group. In May 2007, Flint acquired Day International, a leading global manufacturer of consumable image transfer products for the printing industry such as printing blankets, flexographic sleeves and press room chemicals.
Today, Flint Group is a leading supplier of diversified consumable graphic arts products to the global printing, converting, and colorants industry. Inks include packaging inks, heatset inks (used primarily for printing glossy magazines), coldset inks (both colour and black newspaper ink), sheet-fed inks (short-run commercial applications) and publication gravure inks (high-run printed media).
Flint Group ranks either number one or number two in each of its markets, boasting 170 sites in 35 countries.