- Business
- DIC India Limited, a subsidiary of DIC Asia Pacific Pte Limited and part of Japan's DIC Corporation, manufactures and supplies printing inks, laminating adhesives, and allied products for the printing, publishing, and packaging industries in India. The company produces a comprehensive range of products including gravure inks for flexible packaging such as alu alu, blister packs, sachets, and labels; offset inks for packaging, books, magazines, posters, and commercial printing; news inks in black, color, UV, and high-speed variants for newspapers; flexographic inks in water-based, solvent-based, and UV formulations for labels and flexible substrates; specialty inks such as screen, industrial, metal deco, and UV inks for textiles, paper, PVC, acrylic, and metal cans; lamination adhesives in solvent-based and solvent-free types for metallized films, thermoformed packaging, polyethylene, and transparent films; as well as overprint varnishes, coatings, and pressroom chemicals for offset, gravure, and flexography processes. DIC India operates manufacturing facilities in Noida, Ahmedabad, Saykha, and Bengaluru, with R&D centers in Noida and Kolkata focused on new product development and Asia-Pacific market innovations; it serves domestic newspapers, magazines, converters, and international printing establishments primarily across India. Founded in 1947 as Coates of India Limited and renamed DIC India Limited in 2004, the company is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Recent developments include the operational Optima plant in Noida for flexible production expansion and future new product launches, alongside ongoing investments in eco-friendly formulations like low-VOC, water-based, and toluene-free inks to meet sustainability demands.