The new name for the merged ANI Printing Inks and BASF Printing Systems is XSYS Print Solutions (pronounced as Ex-syss). The company says X stands for its extensive product range, X new developments, X possibilities for our customers and X chances for our employees. SYS means systems.
XSYS Print Solutions is today the largest European supplier of system solutions for the printing and packaging industry.
The company says no other supplier possesses a portfolio as complete as XSYS. It claims it is the foremost supplier in all of the relevant segments of the printing and packaging industry.
The XSYS group develops, produces and markets printing inks, printing plates and pigments/resins for the graphics and packaging industry. The company has 65 fully owned subsidiaries in 30 countries and a wide network of distributors covers another 50 countries. The group, headquartered in Stuttgart/Germany, employs 3 600 people worldwide and had sales in 2004 of Euro880m (A$1.5bn).
