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MercurysBall2 ago

Dainippon Ink & Chemical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIC_Corporation

The company operates worldwide (through 176 subsidiary and affiliate companies in 62 countries) and includes the Sun Chemical corporation, based in the Americas and Europe..DIC owns 47.7% of the sports club chain "Renaissance"...

In 1990, the company established the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art to exhibit artwork collected by the company and its affiliates. The museum is located in a 30-hectare park near to its Central Research Laboratories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawamura_Memorial_DIC_Museum_of_Art

The museum opened in 1990 and its collection now contains more than 1000 works collected by the Japanese resin and ink manufacturer DIC Corporation.[1] The project was largely the brainchild of Katsumi Kawamura, the former president of DIC, founder and first director of the museum, who had been collecting art since the 1970s.[1] The Kawamura Memorial Museum contains artwork by a wide selection of American, European and Japanese artists, including special exhibitions of the works of Mark Rothko and Frank Stella.

A History of the International Dyestuff Industry - http://archive.is/kk1Tc

The companies that IG Farben had controlled in Europe reverted to their original, or state, ownership. These included Spolek in

Czechoslovakia. During the early 1950s, new nations began the manufacture of synthetic dyestuffs, including Argentina, India, and

Mexico.61 Subsequently, European firms opened up manufacturing units in developing countries, participated in joint ventures, and

took over established business. The growth of textile industries outside of Western Europe and the United States, where they were in

decline, and restrictions over the use of many traditional dye-making chemicals, encouraged the expansion of dye-making elsewhere.

..The first Mexican firm, Argo SA, which began production in 1952, became closely linked with Bayer, as did Colorquim (originally set up by Sun Chemical, and taken over by Du Pont). Anyl Mex, opened in 1968, relied on plant designed in Czechoslovakia, and was later sold to Britain's ICI.