Coatings World - July 2010

Arch Chemicals, Inc.

Norwalk, CT www.archchemicals.com

Helios Domzale, Slovenia www.helios.si

PUBLIC COMPANY
COATINGS REVENUES:
$379 million
SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1924
COATINGS REVENUES:
$371 million
SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

Under its wood protection and industrial coatings business unit, Arch Chemicals recorded sales of $379 million in 2009. 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. ;

Helios Group is the leading manufacturer of coatings in South Eastern Europe with approximately 3,000 employees in more than thirty companies in fourteen countries. Recently, 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 Ukraine to approximately $15 million. Avrora 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. ;

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Berger Paints India Ltd.
Kolkata, India
www.bergerpaints.com

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Fujikura Kasei Co. Ltd.

Tokyo, Japan www.fkkasei.co.jp

PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1923
COATINGS REVENUES:
$355 million
SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

Berger Paints was founded in 1923 and is India’s second largest decorative paints play- er. It is active in a wide variety of decorative and industrial paint sectors and continues to gain an increasing share of the highly competitive Indian paint market. Apart from operations in Russia, with a production facility at the Berger manufacturing unit at Krasnodar, Berger has also expanded its footprint in Nepal by setting up a second unit. Today Berger’s sister company in Bangladesh is the dominant leader with over 65% market share. In keeping with the company’s dynamic growth plan, Berger has also acquired Bolix SA of Poland, a leading provider of External Insulation Finishing Systems (EIFS) in Eastern Europe. Berger is also the lone supplier to India’s nuclear power plants. ;

PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1938
COATINGS REVENUES:
$350 million
SEGMENT BREAKDOWN

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. ;