DIC Corporation manufactures and sells printing inks, organic pigments, and synthetic resins worldwide. The company offers printing materials, including gravure, flexo, metal decoration, inkjet, security, jet, offset, printing plates, and news inks; packaging adhesives; multilayer films; and polystyrene products. It also provides color material products, such as organic pigments; pigments for display and specialty applications, coatings, plastics, printing inks, digital printing, color filters, and cosmetics; effect pigments; health food products; aluminum for autoclaved aerated concrete; natural blue colorants; UltraNanno microalgae feed and Algal-derived DHA oil products; and sun chemical pigments. The company offers display materials comprising thin-film transistor and supertwisted nematic liquid crystals; performance materials, including coating, adhesives, UV-curable, waterborne, acrylic, polyurethane, epoxy, phenolic, polyester/alkyd, unsaturated polyester, and other resins, as well as sulphur chemicals, fiber and textile colorants, metal carboxylates, modifiers, alkylphenols, metal carboxylates, and surfactants; and synthetic resins for inks. It also provides composite materials, such as polyphenylene sulfide and functional compounds, plastic colorants, medical diagnostic products, industrial adhesive tapes, hollow fiber membrane modules, building materials, decorative papers and sheets, and decorative films; textile printing agents/leather colorants, and masterbatch for fibers/films; materials for semiconductor and substrate packaging, as well as for photoresists, surfactants, and adhesives and bonding; resins for optical materials; and DLP 3D printing materials, blue-green Algal Polysaccharide, and electrode binder for lithium-ion secondary batteries. The company was formerly known as Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated and changed its name to DIC Corporation in April 2008. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.