- Business
- Sakata INX Corporation manufactures and sells printing inks and related products worldwide. The company, founded in 1896 and headquartered in Osaka with an additional head office in Tokyo, Japan, operates through segments including printing ink in Japan, Asia, North America, and Europe; functional materials; and equipment sales, serving markets such as newspapers, packaging, and industrial applications with gravure inks, flexographic inks, offset inks, newspaper inks, powder color toners, industrial inkjet inks, metal inks, pigments, functional coatings, and inkjet inks for diverse substrates including food packaging, cardboard, and electronics. It maintains extensive facilities across Japan, including plants in Chiba, Saitama, Shiga, and Hyogo, distribution centers nationwide, and international operations through subsidiaries like INX International Ink Co. in North America.
Sakata INX targets printing, packaging, and functional materials sectors, providing eco-friendly solutions to commercial printers, packaging converters, publishers, and industrial clients across Japan, Asia, North America, Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and emerging markets like Vietnam and Bangladesh. The company lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market under ticker 4633 and reports consolidated net sales of 245 billion yen for fiscal year 2024.
Recent developments include the November 2024 establishment of INX International Coatings and Adhesives through acquisition of Coatings & Adhesives Corporation assets to expand North American packaging solutions; May 2025 acquisition of Servicom New Zealand Limited and Galaxy Inks & Coatings Australia Pty Ltd to strengthen Oceania presence; opening of a new flexographic and gravure ink manufacturing facility in Cabreuva, Brazil in early 2025; relocation and opening of a new Osaka headquarters in May 2025 introducing activity-based working; formation of SAKATA Brand Solutions Co., Ltd. for brand protection; investments in sustainable technologies such as DetraPel for PFAS-free coatings and AMR, Inc.; expansion of its U.S. R&D center in West Chicago; construction of a second plant in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; acquisition of RUCO Druckfarben in Germany; and land acquisition for a new plant in Bangladesh.