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Japanese chemicals company

DIC Corporation
DIC株式会社
Type Public KK
TYO: 4631
Industry Chemicals
Founded Tokyo, Japan February 1908; 115 years ago (1908-02)
Founder Kijuro Kawamura
Headquarters Waterras Tower, 101, Kanda Awajicho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0063, Japan

Key people
Products
Revenue Decrease $ 9.105 billion USD (FY 2012)
(¥ 703.8 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Increase $ 202.809 million USD (FY 2012)
(¥ 19.1 billion JPY) (FY 2012)

Number of employees

 20,034 (consolidated) (as of December 31, 2013)
Website Official website
Footnotes / references
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DIC Corporation (DIC株式会社, Dī Ai Shī Kabushiki-gaisha) is Japanese chemical company, specializing in the development, manufacture and sale of inks, pigments, polymers, specialty plastics and compounds and biochemicals.[4]

It was founded in 1908 as Kawamura Ink Manufactory, renamed to Kawamura Kijuro Shoten in 1915, incorporated as Dainippon Printing Ink Manufacturing in 1937 and renamed to Dainippon Ink and Chemicals (DIC) in 1962 before the name was changed to the present name DIC Corporation in 2008 on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.[5] The company slogan “Color & Comfort By Chemistry” suggests that DIC products should deliver color and comfort to daily life.

The company operates worldwide (through 176 subsidiary and affiliate companies in 62 countries) and includes the Sun Chemical corporation, based in the Americas and Europe.[1]

DIC in Japan has 10 plants in Japan, located in Tokyo, Chiba, Hokuriku, Sakai, Kashima, Yokkaichi, Shiga, Komaki, Saitama, and Tatebayashi. The main research laboratory in Japan is located in Sakura, Chiba cooperating with DIC development centers in China (Qingdao DIC Finechemicals Co., Ltd., Qingdao, China) and the Sun Chemical Group’s research laboratories (in USA, Germany and UK).[6]

The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

History[edit]

  • 1908 Founded as Kawamura Ink Manufactory
  • 1937 Incorporated Dainippon Printing Ink Manufacturing
  • 1950 Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • 1962 Merged with Japan Reichhold, changed Company name to Dainippon Ink and Chemicals
  • 1986 Acquired Sun Chemical’s Graphic Art Material Dept.
  • 1987 Acquired Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.
  • 1999 Acquired Totalfina S.A.’s Printing Ink Dept. (Coates)
  • 2005 Sold Reichhold
  • 2008 Changed Company name to DIC Corporation
  • 2009 Established DIC Graphics, joint venture with Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) integrating DIC’s domestic printing ink business and DNP’s printing ink business
  • 2021 Acquired BASF’s Global Pigments Business, known as BASF Colors & Effects (BCE)

Business and products[edit]

DIC is divided in 3 business units and 6 product divisions

Packaging & Graphic[edit]

  • Printing Material Products Division : Offset inks, gravure inks, flexo inks, metal decorative inks, security inks, printing plates, jet inks, news inks
  • Packaging Material Products Division: Packaging adhesives, coextruded multilayer films, polysterene (hyperbranched, GPPS, HIPS).

Color & Display[edit]

  • Color Material Products Division: pigments for printing inks, pigments for coatings and plastics, pigments for specialty applications, pigments for color filters, pigments for cosmetics and health foods (Spirulina)
  • Display Material Products Division: Thin-Film transistor liquid crystal (TFT LC), Supertwisted nematic liquid crystal (STN LC)

Functional Product[edit]

  • Performance Material Products Division: general polymers (alkyd resins, unsaturated polyester resins, plasticizers, waterborne resins, acrylic resins, phenolic resins) specialty polymers (epoxy resins, ultraviolet (UV)-curable resins, polyurethane resins, fluorochemicals), metal carboxylates, sulphur chemicals, fiber and textile colorants
  • Composite Material Products Division: polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compounds, interior housing products, industrial adhesive tapes, plastic colorants, high-performance optical materials, Hollow-fiber membranes, medical diagnostics products

DIC Color System Guide[edit]

The DIC Color System Guide[7][8] is a spot color system, based on Munsell color theory.[9] It is common in Japan, and comparable in role to the Pantone systems.

Cultural activities[edit]

  • DIC owns 47.7% of the sports club chain “Renaissance”.[10]
  • In 1990, the company established the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art to exhibit artwork collected by the company and its affiliates. The museum is located in a 30-hectare park near to its Central Research Laboratories.

Gallery[edit]

DIC Corporation locations

  • New DIC headquarters building in Tokyo

    New DIC headquarters building in Tokyo

  • DIC Central Research Laboratories in Sakura

    DIC Central Research Laboratories in Sakura

  • Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art also in Sakura

    Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art also in Sakura

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