NEWPORT — Help is on the way for the Delaware arm of one of the world’s largest ink pigment manufacturers as it tries to fund maintenance costs for a critical machine located in the First State.

Sun Chemical of Newport, a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Corporation of New Jersey which manufactures printing inks and pigments, has secured a state grant to help defray costs in hopes of not losing one of its most critical pieces of equipment.

The plant in Delaware is located on South James Street and was a former BASF Corp.. It was later acquired in a 2019 acquisition for the global pigment business, which now produces red and purple pigments in dye powder form at the ship before it is shipped across the globe.

Inside the plant, there is a 100-year-old machine that processes pigment compounds

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