07.21.21
7-6 Bakurocho 1-chome
Nihonbashi, Chuo-Ku
Tokyo 103-8383 Japan
Phone: +81-3-3662-7111
Fax: +81-3-3669-3936
www.daicolor.co.jp
Sales: $241 million (¥26,686 million); consolidated sales $1.3 billion (¥138.491 billion yen).
Major Products: Sheetfed, heatset, waterless and UV offset, gravure and specialty inks; security and banknote inks; and overprint varnishes.
Key Personnel: Koji Takahashi, president; Toshiya Sakakibara, CFO.
No, of Employees: 4,000 worldwide (Ink World estimate).
Comments: Headquartered in Tokyo, Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd. is in a wide range of businesses, including inks. Dainichiseika is a leader in offset and gravure inks, pigments and colorants, and has 13 domestic and 23 manufacturing and sales subsidiaries worldwide.
COVID-19 impacted Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd., as the company’s sales declined 10.7% to ¥138,491 million ($1.3 billion). Ordinary profit rose 1.4% to ¥4,920 million ($44 million), which the company attributed to reduced fixed costs in its annual report.
In 2020, net sales for the Printing Inks business sales were down 5% to ¥26,686 ($241 million). However, operating profit rose 8% to ¥2,200 million ($19.9 million).
“As for gravure printing ink, sales were strong for packaging products for general packaging materials in Japan. In addition, business results of the base in Indonesia were solid. Meanwhile, the declining demand trend for offset printing ink continued,” the company noted.
Nihonbashi, Chuo-Ku
Tokyo 103-8383 Japan
Phone: +81-3-3662-7111
Fax: +81-3-3669-3936
www.daicolor.co.jp
Sales: $241 million (¥26,686 million); consolidated sales $1.3 billion (¥138.491 billion yen).
Major Products: Sheetfed, heatset, waterless and UV offset, gravure and specialty inks; security and banknote inks; and overprint varnishes.
Key Personnel: Koji Takahashi, president; Toshiya Sakakibara, CFO.
No, of Employees: 4,000 worldwide (Ink World estimate).
Comments: Headquartered in Tokyo, Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd. is in a wide range of businesses, including inks. Dainichiseika is a leader in offset and gravure inks, pigments and colorants, and has 13 domestic and 23 manufacturing and sales subsidiaries worldwide.
COVID-19 impacted Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd., as the company’s sales declined 10.7% to ¥138,491 million ($1.3 billion). Ordinary profit rose 1.4% to ¥4,920 million ($44 million), which the company attributed to reduced fixed costs in its annual report.
In 2020, net sales for the Printing Inks business sales were down 5% to ¥26,686 ($241 million). However, operating profit rose 8% to ¥2,200 million ($19.9 million).
“As for gravure printing ink, sales were strong for packaging products for general packaging materials in Japan. In addition, business results of the base in Indonesia were solid. Meanwhile, the declining demand trend for offset printing ink continued,” the company noted.