Beginning with the inspiring legacy of Lorilleux and Samuel Morrill in the early 1800’s, Sun Chemical has delivered over 200 years of color expertise, innovative technology and an ongoing commitment to quality and service for our customers.
A member of the DIC Group, Sun Chemical is a leading producer of packaging and graphic solutions, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and products for the automotive and healthcare industries.
Together with DIC, Sun Chemical’s 22,000+ employees are continuously working to promote and develop sustainable solutions to exceed customer expectations and better the world around us. Spread across 17 research and development centers worldwide, we’ve been granted over 3,000 patents and are determined to deliver the solutions you need.
Sun Chemical is a recognized leader in printing inks, coatings, adhesives and supplies for the packaging, publication, commercial, industrial, and digital markets and introduces solutions that enable marketers to better manage their brand colors, protect product integrity through improvements in packaging, and introduce security features that defend against counterfeiting.
Sun Chemical develops a wide range of pigments and color materials for architectural, automotive and industrial coatings, cosmetics, plastics, printing inks, agricultural, and more. Combining its pigments with DIC’s polymers for the same industries can create superior benefits and value for coatings formulators.
Sun Chemical and DIC produce a variety of advanced materials, including liquid compounds, solid compounds and application materials for printed circuits, printed electronics, solar modules, digital inkjet printing, automotive components, adhesives, magnetic tapes for plastic cards and degasification modules.
Sun Chemical Security is our dedicated global security solutions business unit focused on providing a wide-range of high-quality security solutions to help protect your products from counterfeiters.
Sun Chemical is constantly working to promote sustainable solutions. Our approach to sustainability guides the way we develop, manufacture and distribute products, as well as how we work with our customers and suppliers.
Working with industry leaders and in line with DIC Corporation’s goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, we are reducing global CO2 emissions by increasing the use of bio-renewable and recyclable materials, while promoting the value of these activities throughout the supply chain. Our emphasis on sustainability continues to be fundamental to our innovation and product development and is gaining broad support from our customers.
Every year we publish a sustainability report which shows our progress in achieving our eco-efficiency goals and helps us establish actions to improve, recheck and remeasure.
As the packaging market transforms its packaging toward sustainability, use our 200+ years of experience to help your packaging become bio-renewable, compostable or recyclable.
Sun Chemical has produced Sustainable Growth – a guide to help you grow your business sustainably and contribute to the circular economy. The guide is centered around five “Rs” — Reuse, Reduce, Renew, Recycle, and Redesign.
Learn more about our approach to sustainability in this video.
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Have questions or comments about our products, services, safety data sheets (SDS / MSDS) or product data sheets (TDS)? Get in touch!
SOUTH NORMANTON, UK – July 3, 2025 – Sun Chemical Packaging and Graphics will increase prices across its entire portfolio of products containing nitrocellulose in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, due to significant raw material cost increase. The price increase is effective immediately, or as contracts allow, and varies based on each product’s type and
Read More ›PARSIPPANY, N.J., U.S.A. – July 2, 2025 – Sun Chemical will showcase its comprehensive portfolio of digital solutions for textiles, graphics and industrial print applications at FuturePrint 2025 from July 16-19 at Distrito Anhembi in São Paulo, Brazil. “We look forward to sharing our newest products for digital printing with customers at this year’s FuturePrint
Read More ›PARSIPPANY, N.J., U.S.A. – June 10, 2025 – Sun Chemical has released its Spring 2025 Regulatory Newsletter to help guide customers through recent changes in global regulations governing the chemicals and raw materials used in packaging and cosmetics. The Spring 2025 Regulatory Newsletter highlights new judgments and opinions from major industry associations on carcinogen classifications
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