Sun Chemical celebrates 200th Anniversary

Throughout the remainder of 2018, Sun Chemical will celebrate its 200th anniversary. Sun Chemical has helped transform the printing industry by leading the way as the first to develop UV inks, water-based inks, pigmented flexo inks, and flexo inks for polyethylene films. Sun Chemical was also the first to create the four-color wet process inks system in 1906, now commonly known as CMYK printing. Sun Chemical has been manufacturing pigments since 1907. Today, the Performance Pigments Division is a global leader in the pigments industry offering a wide array of pigments, effects and preparations for the coatings, cosmetics, plastics, inks and specialties markets.

With DIC Corporation’s acquisition of the company in 1987, Sun Chemical became the truly global company it is today with growth within the Latin American and Middle Eastern markets and the formation of the Advanced Materials division, which delivers compounds, polymers and application materials to broad markets. Sun Chemical Advanced Materials offers a vast array of solutions to fulfil customers’ advanced printing requests for custom materials, including high-performance silver inks for 3D printing systems, nanosilver inks for inkjet systems, soldermasks, pressure sensitive adhesives for electronics and displays, and SunMotion, a compelling display solution for point of purchase displays.