Coatings World - JULY 2013

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

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1986 REVENUE: $1.09 billion MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES Olivier Legrain, Materis chairman; Rene Riu, president, Materis Paints.

Materis Paints SAS is a manufacturer and provider of construction materials including decorative and industrial paints for the professional and consumer markets. 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 40 percent of sales, or $1.09 bn in 2012. It has nearly 400 sales outlets in Europe for paints. 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.

Shawcor Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
www.shawcor.com

PUBLIC COMPANY REVENUE: $1.00 billion MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES V.L. Shaw, chairman of the board; W.P. Buckley, president and CEO; J.D. Tikkanen, president, Bredero Shaw.

The pipe coating division of ShawCor Ltd., Bredero Shaw, is the world’s largest pipe coatings manufacturer with sales of approximately $1 bn in 2012. Bredero Shaw recently received a contract from Apache in Australia with a value in excess of $45 million to provide pipeline coatings and related products and services for the Julimar Development Project. The project will supply raw gas from the Julimar and Brunello gas fields to the Chev-ron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. The contract involves coating 47 km of 18-inch pipe that will be protected with various configurations of three-layer polypropylene anticorrosion coating, Thermotite five-layer polypropylene insulation and Hevi-Cote concrete weight coating. In addition Bredero Shaw has also received a contract for anode procurement and installation. Work will commence during the second quarter of 2013.

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Tikkurila Oyi Vantaa, Finland www.tikkurila.com

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1862 REVENUE: $896.596 million MARKETS SERVED

• Decorative coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES Erkki Jarvinen, president and CEO; Jukka Havia, CFO; Petri Miettinen, VP, supply chain & HSEQ; Anna-Lena Hogfeldt, VP, general marketing; Kenneth Sundberg, VP, R&D.

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Chugoku Marine Paints Tokyo, Japan www.cmp.co.jp

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1917 REVENUE: $865.800 million MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES Tetsuo Yamazumi, chairman; Masataka Uetake, president and CEO.

Chugoku Marine Paints manufactures paint for ship, in- dustrial and containers uses, as well as adhesives. Chu- goku Marine Paints’ SeaFlo Neo, an antifouling paint, received a prize by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism at the 10th Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Contribution Awards. Seaflo New, a hydrolyzed polymer, which was jointly developed by the National Maritime Research Institute, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. and Chugoky Marine Products, in cooperation with the Nippon Foundation, the Cooperative Association of Japan Shipbuilders and Yuge National College of Maritime Technology, formulates a smooth coated film with low friction resistance after painting. It has also achieved the lowest VOC for the industry’s hydrolyzed ship bottom paint.

Tikkurila is the market leader in decorative paints in Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic countries. Russia, Sweden, Finland and Poland account for 80 percent of the Group’s revenue. Tikkurila focuses on higher price and quality grade paints, which are manufactured in 11 production units in eight countries. The highest production capacity is located in Russia, where the company has been operating since the 1970s. Russia is Tikkurila’s largest single market. The company currently has 3,227 employees. The company operations are organized in four strategic business units (SBU): SBU East, SBU Scandanvia, SBU Finalnd and SBU Central Eastern Europe. Tikkurila reported $896.596 mn in revenue for 2012. SBU East comprised 36 percent of revenue, SBU Scandinavia comprised 29 percent, SBU Finland 16 percent and SBU Central Eastern Europe 19 percent.