Daido Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Japanese organic pigment maker founded in 1922, with its head office in Uchikanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and a plant (completed 1990, 16,528 m² site) and a research and development centre in Okegawa, Saitama; 85 employees (April 2020). It makes azo pigments and dyed lake pigments; its main product is Brilliant Carmine 6B (Pigment Red 57:1), offered in several grades with controlled particle size for transparency, brightness and dispersibility. Its pigment list also includes Lake Red C (PR 53:1), PR 48:1, 48:2 and 48:3, Bordeaux 10B (PR 63:1), PR 81:4 pink, PV 1, PV 3 and PV 3:3 violets, PB 1 Fanal blue, yellow lakes PY 100 and PY 104 for inner metal plate coatings, and a special carbon black (PBk 7). Applications named on its website: printing inks (offset, solvent and water based), toner, paint, plastics, cosmetics, rubber, inkjet ink, textile printing and stationery. It also makes fine-processed pigment preparations (functional colour materials) and imports UV photoinitiators.