- CEO
- Satoru Takashima
- Full Time Employees
- 7,880
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Industrial specialties
- Address
- Kyobashi EDOGRAND Building Tokyo TY Japan 104-8377
- IPO Date
- Oct 2, 1961
- Business
- artience Co., Ltd. (TSE: 4634) serves as the holding company for the artience group, a diversified chemicals manufacturer that plans group strategy and oversees operations spanning colorants and functional materials, polymers and coatings, packaging materials, printing and information, and other segments; it produces and sells organic pigments, processed pigments, plastic colorants, color filter materials, inkjet materials, lithium-ion battery materials including carbon nanotube dispersions, can coatings, resins, adhesives such as pressure sensitive, laminating, hot-melt and functional types, functional films and tapes, natural extracts, medical products, gravure inks, flexographic inks, gravure cylinder plate making, offset inks, metal decorating inks, printing machinery, printing equipment, prepress systems, printing materials, screen inks, functional inks, design inks, color solutions, electronics materials like electromagnetic shielding and conductive sheets, optical materials, hard coatings, wax products and materials for signboards, serving markets in printing inks and paints, flat panel displays, automotive batteries, food packaging, electronics, energy, medical and healthcare fields worldwide including Japan, China, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Founded in January 1896 and incorporated on January 15, 1907, the company is headquartered at Kyobashi EDOGRAND Bldg. in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, with approximately 7,900 consolidated employees, 13 affiliates in Japan and 47 overseas. In January 2024, it changed its name from Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd. to artience Co., Ltd.; it launched the medium-term management plan artience2027 in February 2024 (partially revised February 2025) targeting net sales of 400 billion yen and operating profit of 25 billion yen by fiscal 2026 through business portfolio transformation, capital investments of around 60 billion yen focused on existing businesses and CNT dispersions for lithium-ion batteries, growth in packaging areas like liquid inks and adhesives, expansion in Asia particularly Southeast Asia and India, a shareholder return policy including an annual dividend of 100 yen and treasury share buyback of up to 4.5 million shares or 10 billion yen from August 2024 to August 2025 (with acquisitions executed in December 2024 and October 2025), and sustainability initiatives under ASV2050/2030 (revised February 2025) aiming for 80% sustainability-contributing products by 2030, carbon neutrality by 2050 and zero emissions group-wide.