• 1840
• 1907
• 1929
• 1945
• 1952
• 1987
• 1991
• 1992
• 1993
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George J. Morrill Company in Massachusetts (Printing Ink)
Ansbacher - Siegle Company in New York (Organic Pigments)
Morrill and four others form General Printing Ink
Expanded GPI becomes Sun Chemical Corporation
Open its own Pigment Manufacturing
DIC Tokyo merges with Sun Chemical
Sun Chemical purchases BASF Packaging USA and Bowers Printing Ink (Canada)
Polychrome joins Sun Chemical Group
Sun Chemical purchases USPI in den USA; US Ink is formed, a Sun Chemical Plant for News Inks in North America
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| • 1996 |
Sun Chemical purchases Zeneca Specialty Inks |
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SunChemical in Europa
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| • 1972 |
Start with 80% Part of French (FranceCouleurs), Belgium (Dresse) and Italian (Baglini) Companies; 25% Part of British (Ault & Wiborg Company).
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| • 1974 |
80% Part in further Belgium Company(Dambreme); Increase of UK Holding To 40%.
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| • 1976 |
Purchase of 100% various French, Belgum and Italian Companies
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| • 1980 |
50% Part of Swedish(Grafisk Faerg) And Finnish (Magenta) Companies.
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| • 1987 |
Take over of Hartmann Group (Germany, Austria, Switzerland); 100% in Ault & Wiborg in the UK.
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| • 1989 |
Take over of O&R in Holland and Knebl in Austria.
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| • 1990 |
Acquisition of Georget (France), Prisma (Spain&Portugal), Fisat (Italy) and C2E (France).
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| • 1992 |
Founding of Sun Chemical Kft/Hungary and Hartmann Slowenia |
| • 1993 |
Purchase of all Parts of Usher Walker in England. Founding of Sun Chemical Offices in Tschechia und Slovak Rep. Purchase of Printing Ink Business of Gloria in Austria.
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| • 1994 |
Purchase Moscow Printing Inks, Take over Sun Chemical Brünn, Sun Chemical Svit and Hartmann Sun Chemical Sofia
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• 1995
• 1996
• 1999 |
Purchase Demachem (Italy) and Sun Chemical Warschau
Sun Chemical Belgrad and Skopje
Purchase Coates-Lorilleux
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SunChemical 2007
Turnover over 4 Billion US $ worldwide
No of Employees 12'000 worldwide
Market share 30% worldwide (with DIC)
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