Coatings World - July 2012

54Rock Paint Co. Ltd. Osaka, Japan www.rockpaint.co.jp53 Tiger Coatings Wels, Austria www.tiger-coatings.com

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1930 REVENUE: $260 million ▲ (2010: 238mn)

MARKETS SERVED
• Powder coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Kurt Berghofer, CEO; Clemens Steiner,
CEO; Reinhold Freiseisen, CFO; Chris-
tian Ebenberger, marketing director;
Technical directors: Gerd Schlager,
Thomas Schmidt and Gerald
Hemedinger.

Tiger Coatings GmbH & Co. KG produces powder coatings for industrial applications. The company also develops and manufactures lacquers for the DIY market, as well as inkjet inks for OEM and industrial printing applications. Its powder coatings are used in architecture, steel structure, automotive, agricultural and construction, general industry, job shop, store fixture, furniture, IT and appliances, wood, glass, lighting, inkjet, cans and tubes, gaming, and sports and leisure applications. The company markets its products in Austria, Egypt, Brazil, China, Canada, Mexico, the U.S., Vietnam, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, India, Croatia, Latvia/Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand and Ukraine. Tiger Coatings GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1930 and is based in Wels, Austria with manufacturing facilities in Austria, Egypt, Brazil, China, Canada, Mexico, the U.S. and Vietnam.

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ES TABLISHED: 1952

REVENUE: $255 million ▲

(2010: 249mn)

MARKETS SERVED
• Automotive coatings
• Industrial coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Togo Utsumi, president, representa-
tive director; Fujio Hara, senior man-
aging director; Yoshio Koike,
executive director.

Rock Paint Co. Ltd. offers automotive refinish paints, building paints, industrial paints and home use paints. The company is among the leading manufacturers of automotive refinish paints in Japan. Rock manufactures coatings in a wide range of colors, with an especially wide variety of pearls and metallics. These include popular brands such as its Panarock Mars 2K series, Rockace and Hirock. Rock Paint has recently introduced a one-package type base coat called Pro Touch as part of an effort to continually advance and improve its line of products. Responding to movements aiming to reduce levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in paint products, Rock Paint set out early to develop waterborne automotive refinish paints. As a result, general sales for a product called Waterbase have been initiated. Rock Paint Co. was established in 1952 and is based in Osaka, Japan. The firm recorded sales in 2011 of $255 million.

55Kelly-Moore Paint Company San Carlos, California/USA www.kellymoore.com

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1946

REVENUE: $250 million ▲

(2010: 235mn)

MARKETS SERVED
• Architectural coatings
• Industrial coatings
• OEM coatings
(non-automotive)

KEY EXECUTIVES Steve DeVoe, president and CEO; Mark Zielinski, VP of sales and business development; Mike Black, VP of store operations; Todd Wirdzek, VP of product development; Ryan Arakaki, director of marketing;

56Kikusui Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. Nagoya, Japan www.kikusui-chem.jp

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1959 REVENUE: $234 million ▲ (2010: 194mn)

MARKETS SERVED
• Architectural coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Togo Utsumi, president, represen-
tative director; Fujio Hara, senior
managing director; Yoshio Koike,
executive director.

In 2011, Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. introduced En- viro Coat Reflective 1545, one of the industry’s first com- mercially produced architectural coatings designed to reflect the sun’s radiant heat, according to the company. This eco-func-tional, exterior 100 percent acrylic eggshell paint lowers external wall temperature, allowing homeowners and building operators to minimize air conditioning usage and save money on utility bills. When applied to vertical outside walls, Enviro Coat Reflective deflects a portion of the sun’s radiant heat away from the building. Its infrared-reflective technology employs pigments preventing infrared radiant heat from absorbing into the film and wall thus keeping exterior walls cooler. This technology has been used in the roof-coating industry, but is now being applied to outside walls. Also in 2011 Kelly-Moore opened a new store in Paso Robles, Calif., its fourth store in the region.

Kikusui Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. engages in the produc- tion and sale of architectural coatings, specialty functional materials, construction materials, and civil engineering materials. The company offers ceramics, building materials, paints and crushed natural decorative material sheets. In addition, it involves in the manufacture and sale of machinery and equipment. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Under the slogan, “Work in Harmony with Nature, Work for the Benefit of People,” Kikusui manufactures water-based and organic-solvent-free architectural paints and uses its own methods to minimize drainage and waste generated during the production process. In addition, the company deals with natural paints from Germany and allergy-free paints from Sweden. One such product is Milltex5, which comes from environmentally progressive Sweden and are free of substances that can produce allergic reactions.