In their desire to fuse the technical developments of the Coatings Industry in Indonesia and the Philippines, two Indonesian brothers, Andreas and Ridwan Wihardja, and two Filipino businessmen, Benjamin C. del Rosario and Jose B. Cordova, organized a company on July 14, 1982 that would eventually be considered as one of the principal suppliers of coating and printing ink materials in the packaging industry.

Today, Inkote Philippines, Inc., an affiliate of p.t. Inkote Indonesia, is now one of the major suppliers of metal closure and can coatings, tin printing inks, offset sheetfed printing inks, flexographic and rotogravure printing inks. Inkote has other affiliates in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China.

After over two (2) decades, it has more than doubled its resources in manpower, production, laboratory equipment and facilities.

Inkote is proud to maintain its position as one of the country's market leader in the Coatings and Inks Industry. The core business of the company still proceeds and will continue to impact directly on the Philippine domestic market and the neighboring countries in Asia.

In 2002, the final agreement with Becker Industrial Coatings of Sweden was forged for the manufacture and distribution of coil coatings used in pre-painted steel roofing and other construction materials.

And in May 2005, to further strengthen market presence in the marine and protective coating field, Inkote took over the distributorship of Hempel from Denmark.