Flint Group VP Weighs in on 2012 Raw Material Costs

摘要

LUXEMBOURG -Jan Paul van der Velde, Senior Vice President of Procurement, Flint Group, has provided industry insight into expected raw material cost developments in 2012."There is a misplaced view that raw material costs for the graphic art industry are coming down," said van der Velde. "After more than a year and a half of costs constantly increasing, people have clearly been looking for good news, and the fact that we witnessed prices generally stabilize in the fourth quarter of 2011 caused: a sense that things were actually improving. The fact that people were hearing on an almost daily basis about the economic crisis prompted them to also assume that these difficult times would contribute to raw material costs going down."