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DIC Corporation
Japanese specialty-chemicals maker; ~15% of display liquid-crystal materials.
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Did you know2016
The company behind LCD liquid crystals and industrial pigments is also the world's largest producer of spirulina and the natural blue food colorant made from it. DIC owns Earthrise Farms in California — the world's largest spirulina farm — invented the spirulina-extraction process ~35 years ago, and sells phycocyanin as 'LINABLUE,' the rare safe natural blue that lets food brands drop synthetic dyes. So a display-and-ink chemicals giant quietly supplies the blue in candies, sports drinks and 'clean-label' foods — an algae-farming food-color leadership almost nobody connects to a Japanese chemicals firm. [verify: DIC >90% natural-blue share, Earthrise largest spirulina farm, LINABLUE independently confirmed]
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