Information Research Company (IRL) has released an in-depth analysis of the top global markets for architectural coatings, covering market shares
and prices in its analysis for the first time.
IRL is offering a detailed and comprehensive guide to this sector of the coatings industry. The reports provide, for
each key country covered ( 21 countries
in total), consumption estimates in both
volume and value terms, with 2014 as
the base year and forecasts to 2019. In
its two-tiered approach, top-level data is
also available for the remaining countries
covered in our global database (~100
countries).
IRL estimates global sales of architectural paints and coatings to have reached
almost 27 million metric tons in 2014,
with sales expected to reach over 33 million metric tons by 2019.
The information in IRL’s reports is
based on a comprehensive program of
telephone interviews with key players
in each country market, backed up by
thorough secondary research and IRL’s
in-house database of global paints and
coatings market data.
IRL has identified over 120 of the
leading companies in the major global
markets, providing market shares in volume terms for each country.
The geographic coverage includes the
following countries: Germany, United
Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, Poland,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, South Africa,
Turkey, China, Japan, South Korea, India,
Indonesia, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil
and Argentina.
In terms of value, global sales of architectural coatings reached $61 billion/€ 49
billion in 2014. Asia accounted for the
largest share of the market value despite
having a substantially lower average price
compared to Western economies.
The majority of the market value was
generated by sales of Vinyl/Styrene/VAE
paints, followed by Pure Acrylic paints.
The average price across these two
IRL Releases Architectural Coatings
Global Market Report
