European Coatings Show Attendees
are Optimistic About the Future

was the economic and financial
An underlying
theme of the
latest exhibition
sustainability
of individual
by Sean Milmo
European Correspondent
milmocw@rodmanmedia.com
companies.

The European Coatings Show (ECS) took place in March 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany, at a time of continued static demand in the European Union’s coating market.

The exhibition and the congress that was held at the same time is one of the world’s largest international coatings events, and had an air of optimism. The European coatings sector is undergoing changes that are putting it in a good position to benefit from any recovery in the EU’s embattled economy.

There are speciality niches with strong
growth prospects, a lot of new raw materials
and formulations, novel functional and smart
coatings, new emerging players among both
coatings producers and raw material suppliers
and evidence of rising productivity, making the
sector more internationally competitive.