DIC Corporation (DPN)

Overview

DIC Corporation, formerly known as Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated, underwent a name change in April 2008 and has a history dating back to its foundation in 1908. With its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, the company has developed into a global leader in the manufacturing and selling of printing inks, organic pigments, and polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compounds. DIC Corporation operates through three main segments: Packaging & Graphic, Color & Display, and Functional Products. Each segment caters to various industries, including electronics, automotive, packaging, healthcare, and more, featuring a broad range of products and solutions tailored to meet the diverse needs of its global clientele.

Products and Services

• Packaging & Graphic Segment:

  This division offers a wealth of printing materials, including gravure, flexo, metal decoration, security, jet, offset, and news inks. It also produces packaging adhesives; coextruded multilayer films; polystyrene; and other specialized products and solutions for packaging applications.

• Color & Display Segment:

  Here, the company provides color material products, encompassing organic pigments and pigments for various applications like display, digital printing, and cosmetics; effect pigments; health foods; aluminum for autoclaved aerated concrete; natural colorants; and a sun chemical pigments portfolio. Display materials, including liquid crystal materials, are also part of this segment’s offerings.

• Functional Products Segment:

  DIC Corporation delivers performance materials in this category, including a vast array of resins such as coating, adhesives, UV-curable, waterborne, acrylic, polyurethane, epoxy, phenolic, polyester/alkyd, and unsaturated polyester, among others. It also offers fluorochemicals, modifiers, alkylphenols, metal carboxylates, sulphur chemicals, and textile printing agents/leather colorants. Composite materials, including PPS and functional compounds; masterbatch for fibers/films; industrial adhesive and magnetic tapes; hollow fiber membrane modules; building material; decorative papers and sheets; decorative films; plastic pallets; DLP 3D printing materials; blue green Algal Polysaccharide; prepreg sheet; and electrode binder for lithium-ion secondary batteries, are also provided under this segment.