Coatings World - July 2009

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Dai Nippon Toryo
Osaka, Japan
www.dnt.co.jp

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Brillux GmbH and Co. KG Muenster, Germany www.brillux.de

PUBLIC COMPANY HEADCOUNT: 1,900 YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1929 COATINGS REVENUES: $802 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Industrial

• Automtove OEM

• Auto refinish

• Marine

• Decorative/architectural

KE Y PEOPLE Yamashita Fumitaka, president; Yoshinori Hirotani, executive officer, manager of general paint division, president of subsidiary.

PRIVATE COMPANY HEADCOUNT: 2,500 YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1889 COATINGS REVENUES: $662 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Paints

• Lacquers

• Varnishes

• Adhesives

KE Y PEOPLE Peter König, Franz Wilhelm König, Julius Schröder and Michael Thompson.

Dai Nippon Toryo Co., Ltd. operates in the paint industry primarily in Japan. It offers various coating products, which include heavy duty, industrial, automobile, refinishing, marine, home use paints, plastics and powder. The company also provides machines and equipment for paints manufacturing and coating applications. In addition, it offers its products in various fields, including electrical home appliances, housing, automobiles and information-related equipment, as well as for infrastructures, including high-rise buildings and large-scale bridge construction. On August 29, 2008, Dai Nippon Toryo acquired a 67% state in Tokyo-based Daia Keiko Co., Ltd. ;

Originally known as Hobrecker & König back in the 1880s, Brillux is now in its fourth generation of independent ownership by the König family. Based in Münster, the company has four plants in Germany— Münster, (its main plant for paint, lacquers and varnishes), Herford (plaster and adhesives), Malsch (water-based products) and Unna (industrial lacquers).

Brillux offers an extensive portfolio of products including a wide range of interior and exterior paints, varnishes, woodstains and dispersion coatings. Plasters, wall coatings and floor coverings are also available. There are special systems for external wall insulation, concrete protection and concrete repairs. ;

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Forbo Baar, Switzerland www.forbo.com

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Orica Melbourne, Australia www.orica.com

PUBLIC COMPANY
HEADCOUNT: 6,563
YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1928
ADHESIVES REVENUES:
$606 million
TOTAL REVENUES:
$1.777 billion

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Flooring Systems: 46.5%

• Bonding Systems: 34.1%

• Movement Systems: 19.4%

KE Y PEOPLE Dr. Albert Gnagi, chairman of the board of directors; Michel Riva, executive VP, bonding systems.

Bonding Systems is among the world’s leading suppliers of industrial adhesives. Sales dropped 14% versus the previous year, due primarily to volatility in the U.S. market, which accounts for about one-third of the division’s sales. In the industrial adhesives area, investments were made primarily in fast-growing markets such as Russia, Vietnam and India. In the building and construction adhesives business, the sales network in Eastern Europe was expanded in order to ensure maximum capacity utilization of Forbo’s new production plant in Russia. In France and Greece, capacity for the production of thermoplastic hotmelts was expanded in order to meet the growing demand in the packaging industry. In China, capacity for the production of thermoplastic hotmelts was increased for applications in the wood-processing industry. ;

PUBLIC COMPANY
HEADCOUNT: 2,000
COATINGS REVENUES:
$555 million
TOTAL REVENUES:
$5.581 billion

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Orica Mining Services

• Minova

• Orica Chemicals

• Orica Consumer Products

KEY PEOPLE Patrick Houlihan, general manager, Orica Consumer Products.

Coatings sales in Orica’s Consumer Products busi- ness totalled $555 million in 2008. During the year the company opened a new Dulux powder and industrial coatings manufacturing facility in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia. Orica has made steady progress in developing a business platform in China with the acquisition in November 2008 of Sopel, a complementary small decorative coatings business located in Shanghai. During the year Dulux Acra Tex developed an innovative solution to address the problem of rising input costs and a labor shortage across the Australian building industry. It developed the PowerBase-PowerFinish cladding and coating system that can be installed by a single trades team at an overall lower cost than installing a traditional brick facade. The two-coat system requires no primer or paint and does not become hard or brittle with age. ;