DIC Corporation
26.60
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ISIN
JP3493400000
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- CEO
- Takashi Ikeda
- Full Time Employees
- 20,884
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Industrial specialties
- Address
- DIC Building Tokyo TY Japan 103-8233
- IPO Date
- May 29, 1950
- Website
- dic-global.com
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- DIC Corporation DIC Corporation (4631.T) manufactures and sells printing inks, organic pigments, synthetic resins, and related fine chemicals worldwide; its core offerings span printing materials including gravure, flexo, offset, inkjet, security, metal decoration, and news inks; packaging adhesives and coextruded multilayer films; polystyrene products; color materials such as organic pigments, effect pigments, pigments for displays, coatings, plastics, digital printing, color filters, and cosmetics; display materials comprising thin-film transistor and supertwisted nematic liquid crystals; performance materials including coating resins, adhesives, UV-curable, waterborne, acrylic, polyurethane, epoxy, phenolic, polyester/alkyd, and unsaturated polyester resins, as well as sulfur chemicals, fiber and textile colorants, metal carboxylates, surfactants, and synthetic resins for inks; and functional products such as composite materials including polyphenylene sulfide compounds, plastic colorants, medical diagnostic products, industrial adhesive tapes, hollow fiber membrane modules, building materials, decorative papers, sheets, and films, textile printing agents, masterbatches for fibers and films, materials for semiconductor and substrate packaging, photoresists, optical resins, DLP 3D printing materials, algal polysaccharides, and electrode binders for lithium-ion batteries. The company operates through three main business groups—Packaging & Graphic, Color & Display, and Functional Products—serving industries including packaging, automotive, electronics, healthcare, and consumer goods, with a global footprint across more than 60 countries and key production facilities in Japan, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Founded in 1908 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, DIC Corporation maintains subsidiaries like Sun Chemical and targets diverse customer bases from printers and packagers to electronics and coatings manufacturers. Recent developments include the inauguration of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Gujarat, India, in 2025 to produce toluene- and ketone-free inks, boosting its fifth plant in the country; completion of the acquisition of BASF's global Colors & Effects pigments business in 2025, enhancing its portfolio in effect, inorganic, organic pigments, specialty dyes, and preparations via subsidiary Sun Chemical; resolution in July 2025 to construct a new epoxy resins production facility at its Chiba Plant in Japan, set to start operations in July 2029 with a 59% capacity increase for semiconductor applications and eligibility for government subsidies; organizational reforms and executive appointments announced in November 2025 effective January 2026; and product innovations such as GELRAMIC endothermic pad material for battery fire prevention and new sustainable coatings for direct food contact, alongside ongoing sustainability initiatives like closed-loop recycling partnerships and ISCC PLUS certifications.