DIC : Notification of Rescindment of Temporary Suspension of ISO 9001 Certification for the Chiba and Hokuriku Plants
September 17, 2021 at 04:22 am EDT
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As announced in its 'March 18, 2021, press release titled 'Notification Regarding Temporary Suspension of ISO 9001 Certification for the Chiba and Hokuriku Plants,' DIC announced that a special audit conducted by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Ltd. (LRQA) had resulted in LRQA notifying the Company of the temporary suspension of ISO 9001:2015 and JIS Q 9001:2015 certification for the Chiba and Hokuriku plants, effective from the date of the release. On September 16, 2021, DIC received notification from LRQA that this temporary suspension had been rescinded based on the results of another audit.
Please refer to attached PDF file for details.
With regard to the quality check improprieties that resulted in the recent temporary suspension of ISO 9001 certification at the two plants, DIC sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience or concern caused to customers and other related parties. The Company pledges to continue taking corrective actions to improve its quality management system, as well as to prevent recurrence, to restore customers' trust.
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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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