Dainippon Ink & Chemicals
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Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated (大日本インキ化学工業 Dainippon Inki Kagaku Kōgyō?) (TYO: 4631) (also known as DIC) is a company headquartered in Nihonbashi, Chūō in Japan that manufactures inks, lacquers, pigments, industrial tapes, resins, fluorochemical products, and degassing materials. The company was founded on February 15, 1908.[1]
The company is publicly traded, has over 25,000 employees and sales exceeding $8.5 billion US per year.[1] The company operates worldwide and includes the Sun Chemical corporation.
On February 15, 2008 the company was 100 years old and officially changed its name to DIC Corporation.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Corporate Data: Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, Inc.. Retrieved on 2006-10-17.
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Dainippon Ink & Chemicals
- (English) Dainippon Ink & Chemicals
- (English) Yahoo! Finance - Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Company Profile
- (English) Sun Chemical puts STC on 'History' map (Dainippon owns Sun Chemical, and is mentioned in the article)
- (English) Research Frontiers Update on SmartGlass Operations
- (English) IAL issues new directories of PU systems houses for Asia-Pacific... (requires a subscription to access archive)
- (Japanese) 大日本インキ化学工業 広報・IR部長 水田吉則氏
- (Japanese) 大日本インキ、高耐熱性樹脂の生産倍増