DIC Corporation manufactures and sells printing inks, organic pigments, and synthetic resins worldwide. The company offers printing materials, including gravure, flexo, metal decoration, inkjet, security, jet, offset, printing plates, and news inks; packaging adhesives; multilayer films; and polystyrene products. It also provides color material products, such as organic pigments; pigments for display applications, coatings, plastics, printing inks, digital printing, color filters, and cosmetics; effect pigments; health food products; aluminum for autoclaved aerated concrete; natural blue colorants; ultrananno microalgae feed; microalgae feed; and algal-derived DHA oil products; and sun chemical pigments. The company offers display materials comprising thin-film transistor and nematic liquid crystals; performance materials, including coating, adhesives, UV-curable, waterborne, acrylic, polyurethane, epoxy, phenolic, polyester/alkyd, unsaturated polyester, and other resins, as well as sulphur chemicals, fiber and textile colorants, metal carboxylates, modifiers, alkylphenols, metal carboxylates, and surfactants; and synthetic resins for inks. It also provides acrylic, polyurethane, epoxy, phenolic, polyester / alkyd, and unsaturated polyester resins; butadiene resin latex; UV-curable resin for optical / coatings; modifiers; alkylphenols; metal carboxylates; sulfur chemicals; industrial adhesive tapes and hollow fiber membrane; polyphenylene sulfide and Functional Compounds; Textile Printing Agents / Leather Colorants; and masterbatch for fibers/films. In addition, the company offers DLP 3D printing materials, multi-functional exopolysaccharide, corporate venture capital, multifunctional robot finger, tactile sensitivity enhancer, and omnidirectional multicopter. The company was formerly known as Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated and changed its name to DIC Corporation in April 2008. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
