“There was good quality traffic on the show floor
throughout the entire three days of the exhibition,” said
Joon Choo, vice president, Shamrock Technologies. “This
may have to do with the fact that as travel budgets are
being slashed, only key people are attending these types of
shows. I am extremely pleased with how the show went in
terms of both quality of attendees and traffic. I was also
pleased with the organization and the size and layout of
our booth. There was plenty of room to sit down and talk
with people one on one. I don’t know what next year’s CHI-
NACOAT will be like in terms of attendance but for
Shamrock, we will definitely be there.”
Perstorp’s Per-Erik Velin, vice president specialty polyols,
agreed that CHINACOAT 2009 was very busy. “Our booth
was extremely active with many customers. If this trend
continues, CHINACOAT will be even busier next year.
“Of course this has been a tough year,” said Velin, regard-
ing the recession’s impact on business. “But next year we
expect improvements. In quarters three and four we have
seen a rebound, although we don’t expect to come back to
pre-recession levels. Over the last couple of months we
have gained stable ground.”
On returning to CHINACOAT 2009, Holly Seese, global
marketing communication manager, Celanese, said, “We
had great expectations being back in Shanghai this year
and the exhibition exceeded them. We held many meetings
and my team and I were very excited during the entire
show. CHINACOAT has truly turned into a global show.”
“CHINACOAT 2009 was as well attended as it has ever
been,” said Alan Kalmikoff, president at Keim-Additec
Surface USA. “I am a bit surprised attendance was so good
with the economy being the way it is. Our parent company,
which is Keim-Additec GmbH, is co-exhibiting with our dis-
tributor here in China.”
residual monomer level and can be formulated into low
VOC coatings.
The CHINACOAT 2009 show floor was very busy during the three-day
exhibition.
For Birgit Genn, head of global marketing and business
development, Heubach Group, CHINACOAT 2009 was a spe-
cial show. “We introduced our Heubach Hangzhou location,
which is two hours west of Shanghai,” said Genn. “From a prod-
uct perspective, we are focusing on environmentally friendly
products, such as lead-chromate replacements and IR pig-
ments to reduce heat. This was a hot topic during the show.
Hopefully next year’s CHINACOAT 2010 will be attended like
this year’s exhibition.”
“We did good business and also received a lot of questions
from people not just regarding prices but also higher level
technical questions,” said Jiro Suezawa, director, specialty
chemicals division, general manager, performance materi-
als, Kyowa Hakko Chemical. “The show brought together
many foreigners from outside of China. We had visitors from
Sri Lanka and Greece, to name a few places. The show has
particularly attracted people from all over Asia and India,
which is a good thing.” CW
cyanates, used as cross linkers of effective environmentally-friendly waterborne polyurethane alternatives to conventional solvent-based coatings; Environmentally friendly
polyol solutions such as Capa polycaprolactones, which
reduce the need for solvents due to their low viscosity, while
bringing hydrolysis resistance and flexibility at low temperature; Boltorn W 3000 and U 3000 are high solids solutions
where Perstorp has helped customers reduce solvent contents in alkyds, while maintaining coating performance; and
NX 795, a non-VOC high-performing coalescing agent for
waterborne latex paints.
Heubach highlighted new additions to its range of TICO
pigments. Colored pigments for coil coatings must satisfy
demanding requirements such as very good resistance to
temperature, weatherability and hiding power. Heubach's
lead-free TICO pigments comprise excellent processing
characteristics, outstanding fastness properties and full
color saturation. The product portfolio was recently
expanded with four uniquely designed grades to meet the
requirements for coil coatings: TICO Yellow 590; TICO
Yellow 630; TICO Orange 635; and TICO Red 645. ;
