Coatings World - July 2009

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Helios Domzale, Slovenia www.helios.si

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Fujikura Kasei Co. Ltd.

Tokyo, Japan www.fkkasei.co.jp

PUBLIC COMPANY HEADCOUNT: 2,825 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1924 COATINGS REVENUES: $520 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Decorative coatings: 27%

• Synthetic resins: 22%

• Car refinishes: 14%

• Metal coatings: 13%

KE Y PEOPLE Uros Slavinec, president; Marko Vresk, vice president; Branko Pas, vice president.

Helios manufactures and markets wood finishes, deco- rative paints, road-marking paints, adhesives, auto- motive finishes, refinishing coatings, masterbach, powder, ship coatings and special coatings for the protection of metal. During the year Helios acquired Ukrainian paint maker Avrora. As a result, Helios gained a new production location to add to its current sites in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Russia. According to Helios, Arora’s sales are approximately $7 million. This acquisition raises Helios’ total sales in Ukrain to approximately $15 million. Avrora, which is located 160 km from the capital Kiev employs 100 people. It specializes in the production of coatings for the metal industry. As a result of the acquisition, Helios has gained a distribution and logistics center in Ukraine. Helios also said it will be a supplier of automotive coatings to a large car factory opening in the vicinity. ;

PUBLIC COMPANY
HEADCOUNT: 325
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1938
COATINGS REVENUES:
$500 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Coatings for plastics

• Architectural coatings

• Electronic materials

• Polymers and resins

KE Y PEOPLE Yoshiaki Hasegawa, chairman and CEO; Joji Washino, president and COO; Yuzo Saisu, senior managing director; Satoshi Yamashita, senior VP; Shigeru Takahashi, senior VP.

Fujikura Kasei offers coatings for plastics, which include automotive interior and exterior, automo- tive lightings, cosmetic containers and enclosures, electronic appliances, plastic hobby items and plastic sheets; architectural coatings, such as exterior and interior building materials, decorative items and housing equipment; and electronic materials.

In 2008, Fujikura Kasei’s U.S.-based operation, Fujichem, Inc., purchased 100% of Evansville, IN-based Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co., Inc. With sales of approximately $100 million last year, Red Spot is primarily active in the automotive coatings sector. Red Spots joint venture partners in Korea and the UK, as well as Red Spot’s licensees and customers in South America, Australia, Europe, Singapore and China, further broaden Fujikura’s global footprint to serve the global coatings for plastics market. ;

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Arch Chemicals, Inc.

Norwalk, CT www.archchemicals.com

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Freeworld Coatings

Johannesburg, South Africa www.freeworldcoatings.com

PUBLIC COMPANY
COATINGS REVENUES:
$463 million
TOTAL REVENUES:
$1.492 billion

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Industrial Biocides: 21%

• Water Products: 34%

• Wood Protection/Industrial Coatings: 31%

• Performance Products: 14%

KE Y PEOPLE Michael Campbell, chairman, president and CEO; Louis Massimo, COO; Steven Giuliano, CFO.

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1891 COATINGS REVENUES: $364 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Decorative Coatings

• Performance Coatings

KEY PEOPLE Bobby Godsell, chairman; Andre Lamprecht, CEO.

Under its wood protection and industrial coatings business unit, Arch Chemicals recorded sales of $463 million in 2008. It produces wood preservatives and fire retardants sold under the brand names Wolman, Dricon, Tanalith, Vacsol and Resistol in markets around the world. Principal customers are sawmills and treaters of softwoods that require chemical treatment. Arch also manufactures and sells a wide range of industrial coatings for a variety of applications for wood and other materials in markets primarily located in Europe. These finishes are primarily industrial-applied or consumer-applied products for the surface decoration and protection of wood, including stains, polyester-based and poly-urethane-based coatings, and water-based coatings and UV systems. These coatings products are sold primarily under the brand names Sayerlack and LineaBlu. ;

With its origin dating back 118 years, Freeworld Coatings is today a leading man- ufacturer and marketer of decorative and performance coatings in southern Africa. The company markets its products internationally. Previously Barloworld Coatings and reestablished as Freeworld Coatings Limited, the company was listed on the JSE Limited on December 3, 2007. In the five years to 2007, under the current management team, the company almost doubled its turnover, comfortably doubled its operating margin and quadrupled operating profit. These achievements were built on in 2008. ;