Printing Ink Shipments Break 300 Billion Yen in 2016, First Time in Six Years Feb. 22, 2017 Filed Under: Market, Materials Tagged With: METI, printing inkPrinting ink shipments rose 1.7 percent year-on-year to 300.6 billion yen ($2.66 billion) in 2016, according to Ministry of Economy,…... Please subscribe to read the full story. Subscribe Free Trial Related Articles:Japan’s Ink Industry Feels the Crunch of Declining Demand…Asahi Kasei, Esko Develop Breakthrough Automated Flexo…Tokyo Printing Ink Gets Biomass Content to Over 60% in New…Semiconductor Market Set to Top $500 Billion in 2021 for…Shipments of Four Major Plastics Rise for Second Consecutive…Japan's Ethylene Factory Utilization Rate Reaches 93.8% in…