DICCF DIC Corporation

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DIC Corporation manufactures and sells printing inks, organic pigments, and polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compounds worldwide. It operates through three segments: Packaging & Graphic, Color & Display, and Functional Products. The Packaging & Graphic segment offers printing materials, including gravure, flexo, metal decoration, security, jet, offset, and news inks; packaging adhesives; coextruded multilayer films; and polystyrene, as well as other products and solutions for packaging applications. The Color & Display segment provides color material products, such as organic pigments; pigments for display application, digital printing, and cosmetics; effect pigments; health foods; aluminum for autoclaved aerated concrete; and natural colorants; and sun chemical pigments portfolio, as well as display materials comprising liquid crystal materials. The Functional Products segment offers performance materials that include coating, adhesives, UV-curable, waterborne, acrylic, polyurethane, epoxy, phenolic, polyester/alkyd, unsaturated polyester, and other resins, as well as fluorochemicals, modifiers, alkylphenols, metal carboxylates, sulphur chemicals, and textile printing agents/leather colorants. It also provides composite materials, which comprise PPS and functional compounds, masterbatch for fibers/films, industrial adhesive and magnetic tapes, hollow fiber membrane modules, building material, decorative papers and sheets, decorative films, and plastic pallets; and DLP 3D printing materials, blue green Algal Polysaccharide, prepreg sheet, and electrode binder for lithium-ion secondary batteries. DIC Corporation offers its products to electronics, automotive, packaging, healthcare, color, display, house equipment/infrastructure, and functional material industries. The company was formerly known as Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated and changed its name to DIC Corporation in April 2008. DIC Corporation was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.