Coatings World - July 2011

AB Wilh. Becker
Hoganas, Sweden
www.becker.se

PRIVATE COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1865
REVENUE:
$1.050 billion
MARKETS SERVED
• Industrial coatings
• Architectural coatings
• Artist colors and fine
art materials
KEY EXECUTIVES
Beckers Group: Jenny Linden Urnes,
chairman; Erik Urnes, CEO; Mats
Hansson, CFO and executive vice
president; Becker Industrial Coatings:
Boris Gorella, CEO; ColArt: Thomas
Brautigam, CEO.

Beckers sold its wood finishes division, Becker Acroma, to Sherwin-Williams in 2010. At the time of the sale Becker Acroma was one of the largest manufacturers of industrial wood coatings globally and a technology leader in water and other wood coatings technology with annual sales of approximately $300 million. Included in the divestment were Becker Acroma’s nine manufacturing facilities, 19 mixing sites and 13 technical centers around the world, which serve the joinery, kitchen cabinet, furniture and flooring markets. Also during the year a new CEO was appointed for Becker Industrial Coatings. Boris Gorella succeeded Ralph Kabalo as the new chief executive and leader of the global BIC business. October 2010 saw the official grand opening of a new high performance coatings plant in Tianjin in northern China, dedicated to consumer design finishes products.

Materis Paints S.A.
Clichy, France
www.materis-paints.com

PUBLIC COMPANY
REVENUE: $1.0 billion
MARKETS SERVED
• Architectural coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Olivier Legrain, Materis chairman;
Rene Riu, president, Materis Paints.

In 2006, French investor Wendel Investissement purchased chemicals producer Materis from private equity group LBO France. Materis Paints is the largest business within the Materis group of companies representing 41 percent of sales, or $1 billion in 2010. Materis’ brands include Tollens, Zolpan, Max Meyer, Ducco and Robbialac. In terms of market position, Materis Paints holds leading positions in the areas it operates. The firm is number four in Europe, number two in France and Portugal, number one in Italy, number four in Spain and Morocco and number five in Argentina.

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SK Kaken
Ibaraki-City, Japan
www.sk-kaken.co.jp
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Dai Nippon Toryo Osaka, Japan www.dnt.co.jp

PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1955
REVENUE: $831 million
KEY EXECUTIVES
Minoru Fujii, president;
Masahide Sakamoto,
executive director; Mit-
suhiro Fujii, managing
director.

MARKETS SERVED
• Specialty coatings
• Textured coatings
• Architectural paints
• Industrial coatings
• Floor coatings and roof coatings
• Fire retardant and heat
insulating coatings
PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1929

SK Kaken Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells organic or inor- ganic water-based painting materials, synthetic resin coat- ings, inorganic painting and construction materials, and special finisherers. Coatings sales in 2010 were $831 million. It also offers fireproof paints, and various transformation goods and cleaning agents; and involves in the contract of fireproof and insulated construction. The company was formerly known as Shikoku Kaken Industry Co., Ltd. and changed its name to SK Kaken Co., Ltd. in 1991. SK Kaken Co., Ltd. was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Ibaraki-City, Japan.

Dai Nippon Toryo Co., Ltd. operates in the paint industry primarily in Japan. DNT’s coatings revenue in 2010 was $828 million. 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 in-formation-related equipment, as well as for infrastructures, including high-rise buildings and largescale bridge construction. Dai Nippon Toryo Co., Ltd. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan. In August 2008, Dai Nippon Toryo acquired a 67 percent state in Tokyo-based Daia Keiko Co., Ltd.