Coatings World - JULY 2013

Looser
Holding AG
Arbon, Switzerland
wwwlooserholding.ch

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1932 REVENUE: $192.9 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural coatings • Industrial
coatings • Automotive OEM • Auto
refinish • Wood coatings • Non-stick
coatings • Packaging coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES Thomas Lozser, CEO; Pascal Rentzmann, group controller.

The Coatings Group of Arbon, Switzerland-based Looser Holding AG in 2012 recorded sales of $192.9 mn, the ma- jority of which came from sales of wood coatings, which represents 54 percent of total coatings revenue. The approximate percent of sales for the other segments include: packaging coatings 18 percent; non-stick/low-friction coatings 16 percent; and industrial coatings 12 percent. The Coatings Division is home to the Treffert Group, Feyco Group, ILAG Group, Schekolin AG and Feycolor Group who make coating for wood, plastic, metal, stone and glass for industrial and commercial use. These companies operations are spread throughout Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the rest of Europe, China, South East Asia and the U.S. The Coatings Division employs 600 personnel at its nine production facilities and labs around the world.

Industrias Titan
Barcelona, Spain
www.titanlux.com

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1917 REVENUE: $185 million MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES José Farrés Pere, CEO; Jaime Carbonell Petit, financial general manager; Antonio Vilaseca Martinez, technical director; and Jose Fernández, manager for powder coatings.

Since it was founded in 1917 in Barcelona, Industrias Titan has produced paints, enamels, varnishes, powder coatings, colors for fine arts and handicrafts, as well as ancillary products. Its present installations have a total area of 120,000 square meters and are located in El Prat de Llobregat, which is within the metropolitan area of Barcelona. It has fourteen commercial delegations, six production plants in Spain, one in Portugal and one in Morocco. In recent years Industrias Titan has focused its efforts on making its products more environmental friendly, right through from product conception to the end user stage. Many of its products have been awarded with the European Ecological Label.

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Whitford Corp.
Elverson, Pennsylvania
USA
whitfordww.com

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1969 REVENUE: $180 million MARKETS SERVED

• Industrial coatings • Automotive coatings
• Powder coatings • Houseware coatings
• Electrical component coatings
• Non-stick coatings • Packaging coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES David P. Willis Jr., president; Tom Sheehan, CFO; Rich Hobbs, managing director.

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Ace Paint
Oakbrook, Illionois
USA
www/ acehardware.com

PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1926
REVENUE: $175 million
MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES Ray Griffith, president and CEO; Dave Zieglar, chairman.

Whitford Corporation is a manufacturer of one of the world’s largest line of fluoropolymer coatings. Whit- ford’s story began in 1969 when the founders created its first product—Xylan 1010—which remains one of the company’s most popular products today. The firm’s wide range of products serves the industrial, automotive, powder coatings, houseware , electrical component and sol-gel markets. Whitford operates nine manufacturing facilities worldwide in the U.S., the UK, Brazil, India, China, Singapore and Italy. In 2011 Whitford opened its factory in Bangalore, one of India’s fastest-growing and most dynamic cities. On the new technology front, Whitford has broken new ground with its recently launched Eterna Colors, Quan Tanium colors, Fusion colors and Fusion X for exteriors.

For its first 50 years in business, Ace was privately held. In 1976, Ace became a retailer-owned cooperative. Each store is independently owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. Today, Ace is the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the hardware industry in terms of wholesale and retail sales and strength of the brand. Ace’s 4,600 stores in all 50 states and more than 60 countries generate annual retail sales of approximately $12 billion. Headquartered in Oak Brook, IL, Ace currently operates 14 distribution centers in the U.S. and one in Shanghai, China. Ace employs approximately 4,500 corporate team members worldwide and has four regional offices, located in Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; and Woodridge, IL. The Ace Paint division generated sales of approximately $175 mn in 2012.