Coatings World - July 2009

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Boysen Quezon City, Phillipines www.boysenpaints.com

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Grebe Group Weilburg, Germany www.grebe-group.com

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1926 COATINGS REVENUES: $183 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Architectural/decorative

KE Y PEOPLE Willy Ong, president; Johnson Ongking, vice president; Ruben Cueto, marketing manager; Romeo Bautista, technical services manager.

PRIVATE COMPANY
HEADCOUNT: 600
YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1936
COATINGS REVENUES:
$178 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Industrial coatings: 40%

• OEM (non-auto): 40%

• Rail & defense: 20%

KE Y PEOPLE Helmut Tappe, CEO Grebe Group; Dr. Manfred Becker, management board; Frank Glaser, management board; Tim Rand, Weilburger Coatings; Uwe Diener, marketing director.

Walter Neal Boysen founded Boysen Paints in Oakland, CA/USA in 1926. After expanding the brand across the U.S., Boysen Paints was introduced to Asia in the 1960s. It has given Pacific Paints the license to manufacture its premium paint products. The growing market share in Asia and the Pacific, especially in the Philippine market, necessitated the creation of a fully integrated state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Cavite, Philippines, said to be the most modern paint factory in Southeast Asia. In 2008, Pacific Paints (Boysen) Philippines launched its environment-friendly paint, dubbed the Boysen KNOxOUT, activated by Cristal Nanotechnology. Also of note in 2008 Boysen Paints was awarded Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Brand Platinum Status for the fourth year in a row in early 2009—making it one of only two paint companies in Asia-Pacific with this distinction. ;

The Grebe Group recorded sales of $178 million in 2008. The firm’s coatings business can be broken down into the following segments: Industrial coatings, which accounted for 40% of sales; non-automotive OEM applications, which accounted for another 40% of revenue; and lastly, rail and defense applictions make up the remaining 20% of revenue for the year. For household articles the firm offers Greblon Non Stick coatings and decorative, temperature-resistant coatings. For the stove industry it offers high-tem-perature resistant coatings. For general industry applications Grebe offers coating systems for metals, plastics and glass in applications such as sewage pipes, household appliances, rail vehicles, mobile phones and defence technology. The group operates facilities in Germany, UK, Italy, Poland, China, Hong Kong Indonesia, India and Japan. In 2008 Grebe acquired Schramm Coatings GmbH. ;

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Tambour Netanya Souty, Israel www.tambourpaints.com

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ICA Group Civitanova Marche, Italy www.icaspa.com

PUBLIC COMPANY
HEADCOUNT: 950
YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1936
COATINGS REVENUES:
$170 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Decorative paints

• Industrial paints

• Marine paints

• Sealants

• Adhesives

KE Y PEOPLE Michael Dayan, CEO; Ari Kanterewicz, international marketing director; Ronen Cohen, CEO of Tzah-Serafon; Micha Scharir, VP and financial director; Eitan Weitzman, marketing dir.

Founded in 1936, Tambour is today the largest Israeli paint manufacturer. Tambour’s sales reached $170 million in 2008. The firm’s paint production capacity is 85 million liters. Tambour specializes in the production and marketing of decorative and industrial paints, but supplies to other markets as well. Tambour’s range of products includes acrylic polymers; decorative paints; industrial paints; marine paints; building material; gypsum products; gidge bricks; sealants; adhesives; and printing inks. Tambour is one of the companies active in the international paint manufacturers club, Nova & CRGI Nova club assembles 17 members with a combined annual sales of $2 billion. Tambour is also the authorized supplier of paint to the land and air forces of the IDF and Israel’s security industries. ;

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1971 COATINGS REVENUES: $154 million

SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

• Industrial wood coatings: 95%

KEY PEOPLE Alessandro Bascelli, export manager; Lorenzo Lavarini, area manager; Federico Bastianelli, area manager; Sandro Paniccia, marketing director; Fabio Paniccia, technical director.

ICA Group is a leading name in the manufacture and mar- keting of special wood coatings. The Group comprises ICA S.p.A., based in Civitanova Marche and Salchi Wood Coatings S.p.A., based in Romano D’Ezzelino. In 2008, ICA Group manufactured a total of 30,000 tons of wood coatings. These coatings are used all over the world in a wide spectrum of different sectors ranging from decorating to woodworking, coating everything from ships to outdoor structures, door frames, garden furniture, parquet floors and musical instruments. The main clients for ICA Group are (in order of volume sales): furniture makers, frame manufacturers, woodworking specialists, decorators and third-party coating companies. The company also produces water-based coatings for glass (slotted into furniture or used as a decorative surface) and plastic materials (not only for use in the furniture sector), as well as for a whole host of other coatings. ;