Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Ink manufacturers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,136 ink manufacturers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,268 professional contacts across them, including 2,816 with verified work emails. India is the largest market and Mumbai the largest hub.
This list covers ink manufacturers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026. Country and city lists for ink manufacturers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest ink manufacturers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 557 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Linc Limited is one of India’s most trusted writing instrument manufacturers with a national and international presence in over 60 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 464 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shaping the future of responsible packaging, printing and visual communication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Encres Dubuit : L'innovation au service de l'impression Encres Dubuit est une entreprise internationale reconnue pour son expertise dans le développement, la fabrication et la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 342 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wikoff is a leading global manufacturer of inks, coatings and advanced color technologies serving the graphic arts and printing industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 342 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “STABILO International GmbH is one of the leading manufacturers of writing instruments in Europe and part of the Schwan-STABILO group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Türkiye’de kırtasiye denilince ilk akla gelen isim olan ve üretim kalitesi ile tanınan Adel Kalemcilik, 1969 yılında İstanbul Kartal’da kuruldu.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Nazdar® company manufactures the most comprehensive selection of UV, UV-LED, water-base and solvent-based wide-format digital inks, screen printing inks, and flexographic inks…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Schwan Cosmetics is a world market leader in the production of cosmetic pencils: the wide range of color cosmetics extends from wood-encased eyebrow pencils and kohl or liquid…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cosco manufactures and markets a vast range of marking devices with stamps being at the core of the product line.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Compactor é a primeira fábrica 100% brasileira especializada na produção de artigos de escrita do país.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1998, Matador Group has been successfully contributing in the economy of Bangladesh through its operation in different sectors including Stationery, Polyfeb…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Faber-Castell is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality products for writing, colouring and creative design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 70 years, Pentel has supplied the world with the highest quality products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ARON UNIVERSAL LIMITED is India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of Vivid Daylight Fluorescent Pigments, Fluorescent Ink Bases, Fluorescent Toners, Fluorescent Dispersions, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Toyo Ink America, LLC is a member of the Artience Group, a global specialty chemicals company founded in 1896 in Tokyo, Japan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pilot Corporation of America prides itself on being a leading manufacturer and marketer of quality writing instruments in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Toyo Printing Inks, a subsidiary of Japan-based Toyo Ink Group as one of the world's largest ink manufacturers, ranks among the brands that shape up the ink industry in Turkey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cello Pens, founded in 1995, is India’s most recognized stationery brand and the leading manufacturer and distributor of writing instruments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DIC Pakistan Limited, Pakistan's largest quality ink manufacturer, brings the highest standards of quality goods, innovative technology and customer service to printers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cape Town-based digital ink developer and manufacturer, NUtec has a global reputation as an innovative partner in the graphic arts, textile, packaging and industrial inkjet…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Comprehensive ink manufacturer SAKATA INX CORPORATION develops, manufactures and sells a full range of printing inks and various functional materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1918, Superior Printing Ink Co, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rextone Industries Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: ink manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names ink manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ink manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ink manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Ink manufacturers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among ink manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for ink manufacturers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “ink manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names ink manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among ink manufacturers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,816 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Ink manufacturers by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Ink manufacturers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names ink manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many ink manufacturers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,136 ink manufacturers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Linc Limited, headquartered in Kolkata, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most ink manufacturers?
India leads with 161 companies, followed by the United States (136) and the United Kingdom (52). Every ink manufacturers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most ink manufacturers?
Mumbai leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Kolkata (14) and Zhuhai (14).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,816 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,136 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.