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Sun Chemical

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American producer of printing inks and pigments

Sun Chemical is one of the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments and is located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. It was incorporated in 1945. The company has its roots as the Lorilleux & Cie.2 It employed about 11,000 people.1 Its revenue was $4 billion.1 It is part of DIC Corporation.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1945Founded1

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Sun Chemical is one of the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments and is located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. It was incorporated in 1945. The company has its roots as the Lorilleux & Cie. Paris in 1818, but was incorporated under the Sun name in 1945. The company operates the Daniel J. Carlick Technical Center in Carlstadt, New Jersey.2

Corporate structure

Sun Chemical is part of a group headed by DIC Corporation. 19 entities, 12 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • DIC Corporation Chuo Ku, Japan
    • Sun Chemical Parsippany-Troy Hills
      • Eagle Printing Ink Company Subsidiary
    • DIC NEW ZEALAND LIMITED Subsidiary · 100% · Penrose, New Zealand
    • SUN CHEMICAL GROUP COOPERATIVE U.A. (SUN CHEMICAL GROUP COÖPERATIEF U.A.) Subsidiary · Weesp, Netherlands
      • BASF COLORS & EFFECTS KIMYEVI MADDELER LTD. SIRKET Subsidiary · Istanbul, Turkey
      • BASF COLORS & EFFECTS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. Subsidiary · Singapore, Singapore
      • BASF COLORS & EFFECTS SWITZERLAND AG Subsidiary · Basel, Switzerland
      • COLORS & EFFECTS ITALY SRL Subsidiary · Cesano Maderno, Italy
      • COLORS & EFFECTS LATIN AMERICA SA DE CV Subsidiary · Mexico City, Mexico
      • COLORS & EFFECTS NETHERLANDS B.V. Subsidiary · Maastricht, Netherlands
      • COLORS AND EFFECTS FZE (كولورز آند إيفيكت م م ح) Subsidiary · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
      • KINGFISHER COLOURS LIMITED Subsidiary · Reading, United Kingdom
      • SUN CHEMICAL B.V. Subsidiary · Weesp, Netherlands
      • SUN CHEMICAL COLORS & EFFECTS GMBH Subsidiary · Ludwigshafen, Germany
      • SUN CHEMICAL GMBH Subsidiary · Osterode Am Harz, Germany
      • SUN CHEMICAL PIGMENTS SL Subsidiary · Barcelona, Spain
      • SUN CHEMICAL SA Subsidiary · Alcalá De Henares, Spain
    • SUN CHEMICAL LIMITED Subsidiary · Alfreton, United Kingdom

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

Manufacturing Sites

Prospecton, Kwazulu-Natal - this site has two factories, manufacturing liquid inks and paste inks.

Inplant sites

Gauteng - 4 inplants

KwaZulu-Natal - 6 inplants

North West - 1 inplant

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Western Cape - 2 inplants

From Wikipedia’s article on Sun Chemical, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

  • Eagle Printing Ink Company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1945Founded Founded1

Sources

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