After 25 years, users of soybean oil-based ink pra
8/31/2004 (Graphic Arts Monthly) - This year marks the silver anniversaryof the research program launched by the then-called American NewspaperPublishers Association (ANPA)--now the Newspaper Association ofAmerica--to develop an alternative oil source for the petroleum-based newsinks then in common use by newspaper publishers. The intensive program wasimpelled by the volatile price fluctuations in crude oil that were, at thetime, causing both periodic news ink shortages and a threat to theprofitability of ANPA's members.
