DIPSOL
-Total Revenue in 2015 was about 6 billion yens. (Worldwide is 10 billion yens)
-Many technical staff is at Dipsol Nagoya (example: Shiratori san is here)
-Mostly, chemicals come from Dipsol Ichihara Factory.
-Dipsol Malaysia is plating shop, not chemical shop. (Anodizing, EN)
-Dipsol has customers in Brazil, Dipsol Mexico is taking care Brazil.
-For Aerospace, Dipsol Zn/Ni has been approved by Boeing.
-For Electronics, Dipsol is shifting from Tin/Lead -> Tin only OR Tin.Silver
-Zinc has been approved by General Motors & Chrysler.
-Zn//Ni approved by Ford Motor.
Dipsol Technical Center (Chiba) has 3 laboratories.
Lab 1: for Top Coat, High SST, Zinc Alloy types.
Lab 2: for Passivation, Zn Plating
Lab 3: for Tin/Zn, Zn/Ni production.
Dipsol’s new projects now:
Aluminium chemical to purge nitrogen & Chrome-free passivation chemicals.
Dipsol’s cobalt free chemicals now:
1. ZT-444CFABC (Clear) for Zinc plating. good for SST, already sells in Japan.
2. IZ-264CFABC (clear) for Zn/Ni.
3. IZB-256CFA (black & barrel only) for Zn/Ni.
4. SZ-247Y (clear) for Sn/Zn.
5. Now creating cobalt free (clear) for aluminum.
so it’s not flexible for market