Sun Chemical’s (The Americas and Europe) Activities

We want our customers and employees to “Experience.Transformation.” and continue striving to enhance both our reputation for excellence in the market and our business results.
Myron Petruch
President and CEO
Sun Chemical Corporation
Driving Transformation into a Provider of Solutions
Sun Chemical, which oversees DIC Group operations in the Americas and Europe, is transforming itself to provide global leadership in the development of packaging solutions. Specifically, we are working across four elements—brand evolution, efficiency, risk mitigation and sustainability—to provide customers with a balanced perspective across our packaging and graphics business portfolio. By defining and differentiating our brands to generate value, we will drive productivity to create a competitive advantage across our service offerings. Our packaging solutions will mitigate risk by defending and protecting our customers, and their customers, while also emphasizing sustainability by helping reduce waste, conserve resources and promote a circular economy.
Improving Productivity
In the Americas and Europe, our manufacturing group is leading the cross-functional project that includes product management, operations, supply chain, R&D, IT and procurement functions to drive the optimization of all pigments business production assets. Focused on our site in Germany and encompassing all color materials manufacturing sites and processes, this project concentrates on improvements to drive efficiency and cost reductions throughout the production chain. By setting targets for individual product families, this project takes an overall view of manufacturing and will improve the operating efficiency and profitability of the color materials business. The project will also enhance our competitive position in the color materials market by offering our customers innovative and sustainable solutions.
Promoting Strategic Efforts to Expand Regional Sales of Advanced Materials
An area of new business growth in advanced materials that we are giving particular attention in the Americas and Europe is electronic materials solutions. Underscoring this, at the recent Large-area, Organic & Printed Electronics Convention (LOPEC), held in Munich in March 2024, we showcased our range of SunSens solutions, which include tailored functional materials designed specifically for printed electrochemical sensors. With applications including health diagnostics, environmental monitoring and agricultural sensing, these materials are contributing to progress in critical fields.
Advancing Sustainability Initiatives
We understand that environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, are potentially present at all points in the supply chain. This is why programs, including the installation of solar panels, are key to providing a sustainable approach by reducing energy generated by CO₂-emitting power generation facilities at production and laboratory sites. Such programs can reduce the overall environmental impact of, as well as greenhouse gas emissions from, its production operations to meet the DIC Group’s target for fiscal year 2030. One example of this can be seen at our site in Germany, where solar panels provide a significant amount of energy used. Another such location is our site in Carlstadt, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Similar projects are also in progress elsewhere where appropriate, based on site energy consumption and land availability.
