Coatings World - JULY 2013

PACHIN
Cairo, Eqypt
www.pachin.com

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1958 REVENUE: $138.6 million MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES Huda A. Salah El-Din, chairperson; Eng. Mohey El-Din Abdel Razek, CEO; Ashraf El Kahky CFO; Adel Mohey El-Din, R&D ex. director; Eng. Khaled Abdel Fattah, operations executive manage.

Since its beginnings in 1958, Paints and Chemical Industries (PACHIN) has been a pioneer in the Egyptian paint and coat- ings industry. Its core business is the production of various types of architectural and decorative coatings, industrial paints, printing inks and alkyd resins. In 2012 PACHIN reported revenue of $138.6 mn. Of this, 85 percent of sales are in architectural/decorative; 6 percent in industrial paints; 6 percent in printing inks and 3 percent in alkyd resin. PACHIN maintains a strategic alliance with the AkzoNobel in which PACHIN is licensed to manufacture and sell various products on behalf of AkzoNobel under the Dulux trademark. Recently PACHIN concluded an agreement to be the sole distributor of Chugoku Marine Paints in Egypt. PACHIN also has a strategic alliance with NovaColor, a leading Italian manufacturer of decorative products.

Samhwa Paints Industrial Co. Ltd. Seoul, South Korea
www.spi.co.kr

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1946 REVENUE: $133 million MARKETS SERVED

• Decorative coatings • Industrial coatings
• Auto refinish coatings • Powder coatings
• Marine and protective

KEY EXECUTIVES Jang Yeon Kim, chairman and CEO; Ja Hyun Koo, VP and CEO production; Hak Heon Lee, VP, management.

Founded in 1946, Samhwa Paints makes a wide range of products from DIY paints to architectural paints, heavy- duty coatings, marine paints and special industrial coatings such as PCM coatings, car coatings, plastic coatings, UPE coatings, UV coatings and powder coatings. In 2012 Samhwa posted sales of $133 mn. During the year the construction of the Samhwa Research Institute in China was completed in Zhangjiagang Co., Ltd. and the Gwangju office of Samhwa Paints built a new office building at Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City. Also during the year the company set up a subsidiary in Vietnam in Bac Ninh. This local subsidiary is expected to produce about 500 tons of paint annually, including paint for plastic products such as mobile phones and vacuum cleaners as well as paints used for covering high-quality structures.

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ICA Group
Civitanova Marche, Italy
www.icaspa.com

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1971 REVENUE: $133 million MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES Alessandro Bascelli, export manager; Lorenzo Lavarini, area manager; Federico Bastianelli, area manager; Sandro Paniccia, marketing director; Pierro and Fabio Paniccia, technical directors.

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Empils
Rostov-on Don, Russia
www.empils.ru

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1991 REVENUE: $127 million MARKETS SERVED

KEY EXECUTIVES Victor Stolbchenko, GM; Roman Setin, GM’s first deputy; Vadim Zaytsev, sales and decorative coatings segment mng.

ICA Group unveiled in the My Gloss system. The new system was conceived to fulfill the increasingly stringent requirements of the furniture sector, which are based on the need to achieve high-quality gloss coatings using cycles that have low levels of environmental impact. The final lacquered gloss effects of the My Gloss system can be obtained both with colored basecoats and with transparent gloss topcoats, and even directly with pigmented gloss topcoats. Specifically, the My Gloss system is composed of versatile products for the preparation of the base surface such as primers, fillers and UV intermediates with 100 percent solid residue. Alongside these, there are water-based epoxy base coats. ICA said the My Gloss system made it possible to reduce VOCs released into the atmosphere during application by more than 90 percent.

With sales of approximately $127 mn in 2012, Empils is Russia’s second-largest domestic manufacturer of paints and coatings. The majority of Empils’ revenue is generated in the decorative coatings segment (~ 97 percent). The remaining sales come from industrial coatings operations. The company markets the following brands on the Russian market: Empils industrial coatings; Rastsvet alkyd-based decorative coatings; Oreol alkyd- and water-based decorative coatings; Oreol Titan special alkyd-based coatings for metal; Oreol Garant water-based coatings for professional use; and Empils Krona alkyd- and water-based coatings for wood protection. Empils operates one manufacturing facility in its headquarters city of Rostov-on-Don.