DIC CORPORATION: New Sustainable Production Facility for Coatings for Direct Food Contact Materials Is Established in Indonesia

TOKYO--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- DIC Corporation (TOKYO:4631) announced today that it has established a new production facility for coatings suitable for direct food contact materials on the site of a plant belonging to PT. DIC Graphics, a wholly owned subsidiary located in Jakarta, Indonesia. This new facility is the first in the world operated by an inks manufacturer to be designed in compliance with the guiding principles of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), a globally recognized food safety management system*. The new facility has thus achieved a food safety management system comparable to that of the average food product manufacturer. With an annual production target of 1,000 tonnes by fiscal year 2030 for markets in Asian countries, including the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and Oceania, the facility will help the DIC Group meet the rising demand for sustainable packaging.

To create a food safety management system that affirms the exceptional safety and quality required for direct food contact materials, the new production facility has been equipped with, among others, air showers, dusters with high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters and antibacterial flooring. The new facility has also earned a certification of compliance with Indonesia’s halal regulations and is compliant with the World Health Organization’s good manufacturing practices (GMP) for guaranteeing that products such as food and pharmaceuticals meet requirements for quality and safety for their intended use. The geopolitically strategic location of Indonesia ideally positions the new facility to serve as an export base for Asia and Oceania, as a result of which DIC is considering further facility expansion going forward.

DIC produces high-performance coatings that can be applied to film, paper and other substrates to impart the necessary performance features, enabling the creation of highly recyclable mono-material packaging. This makes it possible to develop and manufacture packaging that can be readily recycled. The new production facility—the DIC Group’s first in Asia, outside of Japan, that is dedicated to producing coatings suitable for direct food contact materials—marks a major step toward strengthening the Group’s competitiveness in the global market for sustainable packaging.

Advancing efforts to respond to a circular economy is one of the key sustainability strategies set forth in the DIC Vision 2030 long-term management plan. Capital investment in this new facility will make it possible for the Group to offer locally produced high-performance products—for which technologies were originally developed in the United States, Europe, and Japan—in Asian countries, including the PRC, and Oceania, thereby helping to foster sustainable packaging markets.

About DIC Corporation

DIC Corporation is one of the world’s leading fine chemicals companies and the core of the DIC Group, a multinational organization comprising over 170 companies, including Sun Chemical Corporation, in more than 60 countries and territories. The DIC Group is recognized as a global leader in the markets for a variety of products essential to modern lifestyles, notably packaging materials, display materials such as those used in television and computer displays, and high-performance materials for smartphones and other digital devices, as well as for automobiles. Website: https://www.dic-global.com/en/

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