Hubergroup India Ltd (MICRO) Share Analysis – Quality, Valuation Zone, Price Trend & DeciZen Rating

Micro Inks Limited company was founded by the Bilakhia Brothers as a small scale industry in Vapi, India in 1987 and listed on India’s stock markets in 1991. Presently a Huber group company, it is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certified.

Since its very beginning, Micro Inks has remained strongly committed to the printing industry. This is reflected in high levels of investments it had made not only to manufacture inks but also in the key raw materials like pigments, resins, varnishes, additives etc. Micro Inks is today amongst the few ink companies in the world having such high degree of backward integration.

This commitment got a further boost when it became members of the Germany-based Huber Group in 2005. Being perhaps the oldest ink company in the world, the Huber Group has a reputation for high quality printing inks. That quality culture, based on deep insights and rigid internal discipline, is now the driving force behind Micro’s quality.

Micro Inks have a strong faith in partnerships. As an ink company, it not just shares business with its customers but also explores other possibilities. Staying in close touch with customers world wide, had helped it to understand their needs better. This is why, Micro Inks is considered as a most customer friendly company in the industry. Service and quality are the two cornerstones of its business philosophy.

Ever since it became part of Huber Group, it started the process of technology sharing between the two companies and together pioneered !NKREDIBLE technology for the offset inks. This uniquely innovative technology has proved to be distinctly superior. This is one of the examples of product excellence. Many such projects are on in its labs that will continue to deliver better value to the customers.

The Huber Group is an international holding group comprising of 36 companies, spread across the globe. The group is acknowledged as one of the leading printing ink manufacturers and is also equipped with the know how to manufacture and market printing varnishes, dampening solutions, additives and printing auxiliaries.

Today it delivers high quality printing ink solutions, many a times tailor made, to customers with diverse and demanding needs across various geographies, through more than 200 branch offices, sales offices, distributing warehouses and representatives worldwide.

In this endeavour, it is ably backed by a specialist and informed team of more than 3,600 employees that directly contribute to a production capacity of over 340,000 tonnes of products per year.

Product range of the company includes:

• Offset Inks
• Flexible Packaging Inks 
• Screen Inks 
• Can Coatings, Lacquers and Inks 
• UV Coating & Inks 
• Press Chemicals 
• Raw Materials 
•  Wire Enamels 

Services

Micro Inks offers the printing industry valuable support in terms of technical issues, product applications, printing methodology, ink and substrate advice. It had created an innovative ink matching system called the ink ATM. It also has access to the Huber Group's INK ACADEMY, which provides trainees and participants with a high quality, informative and industry relevant knowledge on issues such as printing ink, printing process and business processes.

Subsidiaries

Hostmann-Steinberg Inc., USA, Micro Inks (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Micro Inks (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong and Micro Inks GmbH, Austria, are the wholly owned subsidiary of Micro Inks Limited.

Recent developments

The board of directors at its meeting held on April 25,2009, subject to necessary consent, approval and permission that may be required and subsequent to transfer of the entire investment (including additional paid in capital) in Hostmann Steinberg Inc.USA to the Company, has now decided to divest Micro Inks GmbH in favour of Michael Huber Muenchen GmbH, Germany, a fellow subsidiary, for a consideration of not less than EURO 17292, valued on the net asset basis by an independent firm of Chartered Accountants.