DIC Corporation Announces Management Changes, Effective January 1, 2021

DIC Corporation specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of printing inks and chemicals. Net sales break down by product family as follows: - printing inks (47.2%): offset inks, decorative inks, soft cut inks, etc.; - polymers (25%): aqueous resins, acrylic resins, saturated polyester resins, UV curable resins, polyurethane resins, epoxy resins, unsaturated polyester resins and polystyrenes; - fine chemicals products (12.4%): liquid crystals, functional pigments and multi-purpose liquid pigments; - chemical and thermoplastic components (8.1%): polyphenylene sulfide, liquid inks and dyes for plastics; - industrial adhesive tapes and hollow fibre membranes (7.3%). At the end of 2019, the group had 9 production sites in Japan. Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (39.5%), Asia and Oceania (20.5%), Europe and Africa (23.1%) and the Americas (16.9%).