Sun Chemical
Sun Chemical
5020 Spring Grove Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45232
United States
Tel: +1 513 681 5950 or +1 800 543 2323
E-mail: Steve.Hamilton@sunchemical.com
www.sunchemical.com
Date Founded
1830
Company Description
Sun Chemical is a leading producer of printing inks, coatings
and supplies, pigments, polymers, liquid compounds, solid
compounds, and application materials. Together with DIC,
Sun Chemical has annual sales of more than $7.5 billion and
over 20,000 employees with regional manufacturing in North
America, South America, Europe and Asia to support customers
around the world.
Markets Served and Technologies
Sun Chemical offers coatings formulators an extensive range
of innovative pigments, resins and additives. The Performance
Pigments group offers high performance, classical, effect pigments and preparations — including Benda-Lutz® metallic pigments and SunMICA® pearlescent pigments. As the pioneer of
the commercial application of Quinacridone chemistry, Sun
Chemical’s Quindo® offerings are some of the most versatile on
the market. Sun Chemical also commercially developed bonding
technology, thereby enabling the widespread use of aluminum
and mica pigments in powder coatings applications.
Sun Chemical’s Advanced Materials group, with world class
resin engineering, produces the full range of general and specialty polymers including polyester, acrylic, epoxy, polyurethane
and fluorochemical.
Together these groups provide customers with solutions tailor
made for the automotive, industrial, architectural, decorative,
and powder coatings markets.
Technical Services
Sun Chemical’s unparalleled global presence, backed with 17 research and development centers, allows for the delivery of local
service and support that is customized to the markets it serves.
Each manufacturing facility produces solutions tailor-made to
the specific needs of customers in each region, bringing them the
value and service they need to be competitive.
Major Products
Quindo®: As the market leader in Quinacridone pigments, Sun
Chemical provides more color options than anyone else.
Perrindo®: Sun Chemical’s perylene line sets the standard for
transparency and chroma giving formulators the tools to develop metallic colors with unprecedented depth and intensity.
Benda-Lutz® MAXAL EC: These encapsulated aluminum pastes
designed for durable exterior architectural coatings are the in-dustry-leading standard for chemical resistance, using state-of-the-art EC encapsulation technology.
Benda-Lutz® SPLENDAL: These microscopically thin aluminum
platelet suspensions are the first choice of premium brand owners wishing to create premium metallic brilliance for interior and
exterior coatings.
WATERSOL: A family of conventional and hybrid resin technologies designed to deliver high performance properties in waterborne coatings.
BURNOCK: A diverse line of crosslinkers and resins, including
polyester, acrylic, and phenolic resins, allow formulators to meet
the performance requirements of a broad range of applications.
