DIC : to Participate in the International Touch Panel and Optical Film Exhibition (Touch Taiwan)
August 22, 2014 at 05:39 am EDT
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Tokyo, Japan－DIC Corporation will participate in the 2014 International Touch Panel and Optical Film Exhibition (Touch Taiwan), which will be held in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei. Touch Taiwan, the only touch panel and optical film exhibition certified by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI), brings together leading manufacturers from not only Taiwan, but also from Japan, Europe, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong, among others.
DIC's booth at Touch Taiwan will focus on a variety of materials used in touch screen components, including liquid crystal (LC) materials and pigments for color filters, high-performance chemicals and industrial adhesive tapes. Visitors will have the opportunity to see both product exhibitions and live demonstrations. During the exhibition, DIC will also give a presentation on its highly rated reactive hot-melt adhesive for assembling mobile phones.
Touch Taiwan
Dates: August 27-29, 2014
Venue: Nangang Exhibition Hall 1, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Website: http://www.touchtaiwan.com/en/
Outline of products exhibited at DIC's booth
LC materials
• LC materials which have negative dielectric anisotropy (negative LCs for various TFT modes)
• LC materials which have positive dielectric anisotropy (positive LCs for various TFT modes)
• Passive VA for automobile use
Pigments
• Pigments for color filters (series)
Fluorochemicals
• Low refractive index UV-curable resins (DEFENSA OP series)
DIC Corporation specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of printing inks and chemicals. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- printing inks (47.2%): offset inks, decorative inks, soft cut inks, etc.;
- polymers (25%): aqueous resins, acrylic resins, saturated polyester resins, UV curable resins, polyurethane resins, epoxy resins, unsaturated polyester resins and polystyrenes;
- fine chemicals products (12.4%): liquid crystals, functional pigments and multi-purpose liquid pigments;
- chemical and thermoplastic components (8.1%): polyphenylene sulfide, liquid inks and dyes for plastics;
- industrial adhesive tapes and hollow fibre membranes (7.3%).
At the end of 2019, the group had 9 production sites in Japan.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (39.5%), Asia and Oceania (20.5%), Europe and Africa (23.1%) and the Americas (16.9%).
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