- CEO
- Ichiro Kosaka
- Full Time Employees
- 399
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Industrial specialties
- Address
- 10-73, 6-chome, Minamitsukaguchi-cho Amagasaki HY Japan 661-8511
- IPO Date
- Jun 1, 1951
- Business
- Shinto Paint Company, Limited manufactures, processes and sells paints, pigments, synthetic fats and oils, fats and oils, adhesives and chemicals primarily in Japan. The company operates through segments including paints for automobiles, industrial use, ships and buildings; powder coatings; marine coatings; and chemical products, with manufacturing facilities in Amagasaki and Chiba, Hyogo Prefecture. It offers automotive coatings such as electro-deposition paints, primers, top coats, base coats, clear coats and anti-rust coatings through joint ventures like Axalta Shinto Coating Systems Co., Ltd.; industrial paints including powder coatings under the Inovacs brand; marine and heavy-duty coatings via subsidiaries such as Japan Carboline Co., Ltd.; and building paints alongside synthetic resins and other chemicals. Founded in 1933 through the merger of Kobe Boil Oil Co., Ltd. and Toyo Paint Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shinto Paint is headquartered in Amagasaki-shi, Hyogo, Japan, and maintains overseas operations via affiliates in Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. In recent developments, the company integrated Hokkaido Shinto Co. in 2023, resolved to dissolve its Shinto Paint Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. subsidiary in 2024 and became a consolidated subsidiary of Dai Nippon Toryo Co., Ltd. in 2025 through the latter's tender offer acquiring all shares from Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. and newly issued shares.