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Bill4 9th Mar 2010

From an HP document regarding their industrial inks:

"Unlike some equipment manufacturers that sub-contract ink production, HP is an ink manufacturer. Its solvent/ UV ink manufacturing facility in Cape Town, RSA is the largest solvent digital ink manufacturer in the world.
In addition to this, the company has solvent/UV as well as water-based ink base ink factories in Israel, and R&D teams in both countries. A new ink plant for solvent inks, opened in 2009 in Puerto-Rico..."

Also, back in 2006, Fujifilm bought Avecia's desk Ink Jet ink assets which included the only two manufacturing facilities, one in the UK and one in the US. Avecia was rumored to be HP's largest ink supplier.