Sun Chemical’s (The Americas and Europe) Activities
Customers and employees continue to “Experience.Transformation.” through actions taken every day. From producing cutting-edge technology and addressing customer needs to ensuring business results that support DIC Vision 2030 goals, everyone at Sun Chemical is aligned to drive corporate value.
Myron Petruch
President and CEO
Sun Chemical Corporation
Driving New Technology
The popularity of gaming and trading cards continues to increase. Inks and coatings targeting this market face difficult requirements for toy specifications and food packaging safety.
Active collaboration with brand owners, suppliers and regulatory groups, as well as the use of novel photoinitiators, were key in creating SunGame, a new toy and food safety ink system. Digital printing is a fast-growing market in packaging that enables brands to create more personalized offerings, shorten time to market and minimize waste, thereby helping brands and converters achieve their sustainability goals. By combining our water-based inkjet ink expertise with our coatings and adhesives technical capabilities, we developed technical solutions for new water-based inkjet platforms for flexible packaging and folding cartons. Our new digital primers give excellent adhesion to various substrates, helping to deliver superior print quality. In both areas, technical leadership has made a huge difference, with global cooperation and the pursuit of excellence resulting in differentiated and innovative formulations.
Improving Business Performance in Color Materials
Our Color Materials division is reorienting its strategies to meet market demand in each industry and market segment it serves via its dedicated technical and marketing teams. Understanding and proactively reacting to changes in global legislation is key to ongoing success in pigment markets. In addition, activities such as portfolio harmonization across sites are improving the reliability of both our sourcing and production.
Reinforcing Our Commitment to Sustainability
At Sun Chemical, a pragmatic commitment to sustainability drives innovation and operational excellence. Over the past year, significant strides have been made to reduce the environmental footprint across our manufacturing sites, while at the same time creating many new profitable business opportunities with new products that address pertinent sustainability requirements. Our latest sustainability report highlights progress toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving net Scope 1 and 2 carbon neutrality by 2050. Numerous energy-efficiency projects at our manufacturing facilities have been completed, and we continue to focus on reducing water consumption and waste.
Promoting the “5Rs
The DIC Group’s “5Rs” framework (reuse, reduce, renew, recycle and redesign) remains a guide for our sustainable product development initiatives, enabling us to contribute to the realization of a circular economy. In 2024, we introduced several innovative products, including direct-food contact inks, which support biorenewable packaging, and ULM solvent-free lamination adhesives, which received industry recognition for their excellent sustainability.
Sun Chemical remains dedicated to driving business results by delivering the products that customers need, satisfying their sustainability goals, and engaging them at every opportunity, while behaving in a socially responsible manner.
