Sun Chemical

Sun Chemical is a global materials and solutions business serving packaging and graphics, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and applications in the automotive and healthcare industries. The company describes its heritage as extending back to 1818, drawing on the earlier histories of Lorilleux and Samuel Morrill. It presents this accumulated experience as a foundation for more than two centuries of color expertise, technological development, and customer service. Its product portfolio includes printing inks, coatings, adhesives, pigments, masterbatches, polymers, liquid and solid compounds, and application materials. Its packaging and graphics work serves packaging, publication, commercial, industrial, and digital markets. The company also offers color-management tools and services, including SunColorBox, alongside pressroom products and support. Its solutions are intended to help customers manage brand colors, improve packaging integrity, and add security features that can help defend against counterfeiting. Sun Chemical is a member of the DIC Group. Sun Chemical Corporation is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, and is a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Group Cooperatief U.A., based in the Netherlands. Sun Chemical and DIC describe their combined workforce as more than 21,000 employees. The company reports a global reach, local customer support, and 17 research and development centers worldwide; its homepage also cites more than 3,000 patents. It emphasizes product quality, technical assistance, service, innovation, and the development of sustainable solutions. Its public materials describe it as a leading provider and manufacturer across its markets rather than setting out a consumer-facing retail proposition.

Sun Chemical presents its history as beginning in 1818, while describing its heritage as drawing on the earlier legacies of Lorilleux and Samuel Morrill in the early 1800s. The supplied company materials do not identify a single founder of the present-day Sun Chemical organization, so those historical names are best understood as part of the heritage it cites rather than as a confirmed founding team for the current entity. The company frames this long history as a source of color expertise, technical innovation, and an ongoing commitment to quality and service. The business has developed into a broad supplier of materials for printing, packaging, and related industrial applications. Its current portfolio, as described by the company, spans inks, coatings, adhesives, pigments, masterbatches, polymers, liquid and solid compounds, and application materials. Packaging and graphics are a prominent part of its activities, with products and services for packaging, publication, commercial, industrial, and digital markets. The company also describes businesses and solutions in color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and automotive and healthcare applications. Sun Chemical's activities include more than the supply of physical products. Its packaging services combine consultancy and technology, with support for color management, packaging strategy, data collection, and customer challenges related to packaging. SunColorBox is identified as a color-management solution for packaging, and the company also offers troubleshooting support for printing inks. It says these offerings draw on multidisciplinary expertise and are intended to help customers manage brand colors, improve productivity, protect product integrity, and address changing market requirements. The company is part of the DIC Group. Sun Chemical states that Sun Chemical Corporation is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, and is a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Group Cooperatief U.A. in the Netherlands. Sun Chemical and its parent company DIC Corporation describe their combined workforce as more than 21,000 employees. Sun Chemical reports a global service footprint and 17 research and development centers worldwide, and its homepage cites more than 3,000 patents. The supplied material does not provide dates for corporate acquisitions, ownership changes, or leadership transitions, so no such turning points are inferred here. In its current presentation, Sun Chemical emphasizes global customer support, product quality, technical assistance, innovation, and sustainability. It says that its global reach enables tailored local services and customer support. The company also highlights work on sustainable solutions and publishes sustainability information. These statements position the business as an industrial and B2B supplier that combines a long color-materials heritage with a wide-ranging portfolio and customer-facing technical services.

• 1818

  Company-stated beginning of its history

  [3]Solutions and Services for Packaging & Graphics Market | Sun Chemicalsunchemical.com
• Sun Chemical becomes part of the DIC Group

  [2]About Us | Sun Chemicalsunchemical.com
• Global research and development network

  [1]Sun Chemical | Inks, Pigments & Advanced Materialssunchemical.com

A global B2B supplier combining color expertise, printing and packaging materials, advanced materials, technical service, and sustainability-focused solutions.

• Printing inks, coatings, and adhesives

  Products for packaging, publication, commercial, industrial, and digital markets.

• Pigments, masterbatches, polymers, and compounds

  Color and materials offerings that include liquid and solid compounds.

• SunColorBox

  A color-management solution for packaging.

• Electronic materials

  Materials for printed circuit boards and other electronic applications.

• Unconfirmed

  Sun Chemical acquires SAPICI[4]Sun Chemical 收购 SAPICIwhattheythink.com

  Sun Chemical has acquired SAPICI, a company specializing in high-performance polyurethanes. The acquisition adds polymer development and production capabilities and expands Sun Chemical’s offerings in lamination adhesives.

• 2021-09-20

  Sun Chemical announces EMEA price increases[5]太阳化学宣布提高欧洲、中东和非洲地区价格printweek.in

  Reported: 2021-09-20

  Sun Chemical announced that it would increase prices across its portfolio of inks, coatings, pressroom chemicals and adhesives in EMEA from 1 October, citing raw-material shortages and inflationary cost pressures.

• 2021-07-31

  DCL completes acquisition of Sun Chemical performance pigments plant[6]DCL完成收购Sun Chemical高性能颜料工厂european-coatings.com

  Reported: 2021-08-12

  DCL acquired Sun Chemical’s manufacturing facility in Goose Creek, South Carolina. The acquisition included production and sales of the perylene and quinacridone product portfolios, along with select other specialty products, and closed on July 31, 2021.

• 2020-07-02

  Sun Chemical and DIC complete acquisition of Sensient digital inks business[7]Sun Chemical 与 DIC 完成收购 Sensient 数码油墨业务textileworld.com

  Reported: 2020-07-02

  Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC Corp., completed the purchase of all shares of Sensient Imaging Technologies and certain other assets related to ink production.

1. 1Sun Chemical | Inks, Pigments & Advanced Materialssunchemical.com
2. 2About Us | Sun Chemicalsunchemical.com
3. 3Solutions and Services for Packaging & Graphics Market | Sun Chemicalsunchemical.com
4. 4Sun Chemical 收购 SAPICIwhattheythink.com
5. 5太阳化学宣布提高欧洲、中东和非洲地区价格printweek.in
6. 6DCL完成收购Sun Chemical高性能颜料工厂european-coatings.com
7. 7Sun Chemical 与 DIC 完成收购 Sensient 数码油墨业务textileworld.com