About Sun Chemical
06 Jan 2000
Sun Chemicals is a wholly-owned subsidiary of US$7.7 billion Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Incorporated. The company is the world’s largest manufacturer of high-quality printing inks and organic pigments with sales of approximately US$2.5 billion.
The inception of Sun Chemical dates back to 1830 when Samuel Morrill, a newspaper painter, began manufacturing printing ink in the kitchen of his home. Today, the company is composed of six divisions that serve the graphic arts, plastics, cosmetics, textile, paint and coatings industries. These divisions are The Colors Group, Sun Chemical-Europe, Sun Chemical Ink, Sun Chemical Latin America, Kohl & Madden and US Ink.
The company employs more than 10,500 people worldwide and operates more than 200 manufacturing, sales and service locations in Europe, the Caribbean, and North, Central and South America.
In 1997, Sun Chemical signed a joint venture with Eastman Kodak to form Kodak Polychrome Graphics, which combines Sun Chemical’s former plate and film division Polychrome with Kodak’s Graphic Systems Markets business. Kodak Polychrome Graphics sells film, paper, conventional and computer-to-plate solution, process chemistry and digital proofing products to the graphic arts market.