Serving the Printing Industry for Over a Century

• 1896 Founded in Osaka under the name Sakata Ink Seizousho
• 1909 Acme Printing Ink Company founded in Chicago
• 1910 Roberts & Porter, Inc. founded in Chicago
• 1916 Sakata Tokyo office established
• 1948 Sakata’s Export Import Division established
• 1959 Sakata Osaka plant opened
• 1960 Sakata's first overseas office setup in the Phillippines
• 1969 Sakata Tokyo plant opened
• 1979 Sakata’s Joint Venture plant started in Taiwan
• 1980 Graphic Arts Laboratory established in Tokyo
• 1984 Sakata’s Funabashi plant opened
• 1986 Sakata INX and Acme sign Technology License Agreement
• 1986 Roberts & Porter changes name to Midland Color Company
• 1987 Sakata’s Joint Venture plant in Spain established
• 1987 Name changed to Sakata INX Corp.
• 1988 INX Group Ltd. established
• 1988 Sakata INX acquires Acme Printing Ink Company
• 1989 Sakata’s Joint Venture plant in Indonesia established
• 1989 Sakata INX acquires Midland Color Co. & CPS Corp.
• 1989 Sakata INX acquires Knight Colors & Chemicals
• 1992 INX International Ink Co. formed -merger of Midland Color and Acme
• 1992 INX West Chicago plant opened
• 1992 Established INX United Kingdom
• 1992 Established CDI Sakata INX Corp. Philippines
• 1993 Established Sakata INX Malaysia
• 1993 INX Edwardsville, Kansas plant opened
• 1994 Sakata Hanyu plant opened
• 1995 Established Sakata Inx (India) Limited) in India.
• 1995 INX Santa Fe Springs plant opened
• 1996 INX Appleton plant expanded
• 1996 INX R&D State-of-the-Art facility opened
• 1998 CPS plant expanded
• 2002 Sakata INX Shanghai established
• 2002 Established Eternal Sakata INX Co. Ltd.
• 2003 Sakata INX Vietnam Co. established
• 2004 Maoming Sakata INX Co. Ltd. established
• 2004 INX International France S.A.S. formed by acquisition of Holliday Encres
• 2004 Established INX Europe Limited
• 2004 INX opens world’s largest 2-piece metal decorating ink plant in Charlotte, NC
• 2005 INX acquires Triangle Digital, LLC forms Triangle Digital INX Co.
• 2007 INX acquires Innovative Solutions Inc., forms Innovative Solutions INX
• 2008 Triangle Digital INX Co. acquires Megaink Digital of Czech Republic and Anteprima SRL of Italy
• 2008 INX Homewood, IL plant opened
• 2009 Triangle Digital INX Co. changes name to INX Digital International Co.
• 2009 Innovation solutions INX merged into INX International Ink Co.
• 2010 Megaink Digital changes name to INX Digital Czech a.s and Anteprima S.r.l changes name to INX Digital Italy S.r.l. 
• 2010 INX establishes INX International De Mexico
• 2013 INX Digital International Co. is merged into INX International Ink Co.
• 2014 INX International UK Ltd. new plant opened
• 2015 INX Lebanon, OH plant opened
• 2015 INX Digital Czech new plant opened
• 2016 INX Charlotte, NC plant expanded
• 2016 INX do Brasil ltd. acquires Creative Industria e comercio Ltda.
• 2017 INX Edwardsville, KS plant expanded