Tokyo, Japan-DIC Corporation announced today the publication of the English-language version of DIC Report 2023, the latest edition of the DIC Group's annual integrated report, which contains both financial information, including operating results and management strategies, and non-financial information, focusing on its environmental, social and governance initiatives.
The DIC Group works to provide both social value, which contributes to sustainability and markets, and economic value, which underpins corporate growth, with the aim of becoming a unique global company that is trusted by society. Looking ahead, the Group will continue to promote effective disclosure, in line with its commitment to both communicating with its stakeholders and enhancing its corporate value.
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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%).