DIC (company)
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3493400000 |
| founding | 1908 |
| Seat |
Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
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| management | Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (President and CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 20,411 |
| sales | 830 billion yen (7 billion euros ) |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.dic-global.com |
| As of December 31, 2014 | |
DIC KK ( Japanese DIC 株式会社 , DIC Kabushiki kaisha ) is a Japanese chemical company.
DIC was founded in 1908 as Kawamura Ink Seizōsho ( 川村 イ ン キ 製造 所 , " Kawamura Ink Factory "). In 1937 the name was changed to Dainippon Ink Seizō KK ( 大 日本 イ ン キ 製造 株式会社 , English Dainippon Printing Ink Manufacturing , German "Greater Japanese ink production"), after the merger with Japan Reichhold in 1962 in Dainippon Ink Kagaku Kōgyō KK ( 大 日本 イ ン キ 化学工業 株式会社 , English Dainippon Ink and Chemicals , German "Großjapanische Eiche- und Nahrungsmittel-AG") and finally in 2008 in DIC KK 1999 the printing inks business was taken over by Totalfina . In 2009 Dai Nippon Printing and DIC founded the joint venture DIC Graphics .
Today DIC manufactures printing inks , pigments , liquid crystals , synthetic resins and polymers . In terms of organic chemicals, alkylphenols , fluorine compounds , metal naphthenates and EP additives are produced. DIC has a market share of over 30% in green and blue pigments for color filters and polyphenylene sulfides .
Sun Chemical Corporation
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