Mark Andy Print Products has entered into a strategic agreement to serve as the official North American distributor for Sun Chemical’s narrow web inks, coatings, and adhesives.
Mark Andy, a leading global provider of printing and label solutions, has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with Sun Chemical. Under the new partnership, Mark Andy Print Products will serve as the North American distributor for Sun Chemical inks, coatings, adhesives, and colour management solutions serving the narrow web tag and label market.
The agreement provides print converters with a single source for inks, coatings, adhesives, plates, anilox rolls, doctor blades, mounting tapes, and other critical pressroom consumables, all supported by the combined technical expertise of both organisations.
Through the agreement, Mark Andy Print Products will offer Sun Chemical’s extensive portfolio of UV, UV LED, water-based, and specialty narrow web technologies. The expanded offering includes SolarFlex Max D, SolarWave, AquaVerse solutions, SolarLam UV laminating adhesives, and SunLam solvent-free adhesives.
Ralph Jenkins, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Mark Andy Print Products, commented: “This agreement significantly expands the level of support we can bring to the pressroom. Converters are managing tighter colour tolerances, shorter runs, a broader mix of applications, and increasing pressure to maintain consistency across jobs and facilities. By combining Mark Andy’s narrow web expertise and customer reach with Sun Chemical’s technical and formulation capabilities, we can help customers address those challenges through a more complete and coordinated approach.”
The agreement arrives as the boundaries between label and flexible packaging production continue to narrow. Label converters are increasingly adding pouches, sachets, stick packs, bags, and shrink sleeves to their production mix, while traditional flexible packaging producers are evaluating narrower inline platforms to produce shorter runs more efficiently.
Sun Chemical’s experience in wide web flexible packaging, low-migration chemistry, coatings, and laminating adhesives will give Mark Andy Print Products additional resources to support converters entering these lucrative markets.
Dennis Sweet, Vice President of Narrow Web Tag and Label at Sun Chemical, added: “We are excited to partner with Mark Andy, a company that shares our commitment to innovation, technical excellence and customer success. Together, we can help customers achieve greater colour consistency, productivity, streamline operational efficiency and address increasingly complex label and flexible packaging requirements. This partnership creates a stronger, more comprehensive support platform for the narrow web market.”
The partnership also creates a broader platform for improving colour consistency across jobs and facilities. Mark Andy customers will gain access to Sun Chemical’s SunColorBox ecosystem, an integrated set of colour management tools designed to support colour communication, matching, formulation, and production control. This will naturally complement the existing Mark Andy Print Products Color Smart Program.
Looking ahead, Mark Andy and Sun Chemical plan to introduce ink dispensing technologies at Mark Andy facilities and selected customer locations. These systems will allow spot colours to be produced closer to the point of use, helping converters streamline colour matching, reduce excess inventory, and dispense exact quantities. The companies are also collaborating on high-speed flexographic applications, including low-migration ink performance and curing at elevated press speeds.
Mark Andy and Sun Chemical will formally introduce the agreement to the broader market at LOUPE Americas 2026.