Coatings World - July 2014

The company was founded in 1985 under the name Kantara Paints and Chemical Industries specializing in car re;nish paints. In 2002 the company opened its current headquarters located in Port Said and changed its name to Kapci Coatings. In 2013 Kapci generated revenue of $172 milliion. Car re;nishes accounted for 52 percent of sales; architectural and decorative coatings 32 percent; and wood ;nishes accounted for the remaining percentages. Kapci Coatings’ production facility is located on 210,000 square meters of space where the company has an annual production capacity of roughly 80,000 tons per year. Kapci Coatings is currently exporting its paint products to more than 42 countries around the world. It has four branches in China, India, Brazil and the UAE. Kapci recently launched Kapci Dima, a waterborne based coating.

For its ;rst 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 of;ces, located in Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; and Woodridge, Illinois. The Ace Paint division generated sales of approximately $175 million in 2013.

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1926

REVENUE: $175 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Ray Griffith, president and CEO; Dave Zieglar, chairman

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1985 REVENUE: $172 million MARKETS SERVED

• Automotive refinish • Decorative paints • Wood finishes

KEY EXECUTIVES

Mohamed Mohamed Ahmed El-Sayed, CEO; Amr Mohamed El-Sayed, commercial director; Lotfy Hassan El-Badrawy, R&D director

Kapci Coatings;
Port Said, Eqypt
www.kapci.com 66 Ace Paint Oakbrook, Illinois USA www.acehardware.com 65

Since it was founded in 1917 in Barcelona, Industrias Titan has produced paints, enamels, varnishes, powder coatings, colors for ;ne 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.

WEG Group’s Coatings Unit provides solutions in liquid industrial and anticorrosive coatings, automotive re;n- ish coatings, powder coatings and electro insulating varnishes and resins. We WEG Coatings is a leader in the Brazilian market in powder coatings and electro insulating varnishes and resins and is a leader in industrial and anticorrosive coatings in Latin America. Among the main market segments, WEG provides solutions for marine and offshore, chemical and petrochemical, metallic structures, shipbuilding, industrial maintenance, household appliances and automotive re;nishing.

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1917

REVENUE: $185 million MARKETS SERVED

• Decorative coatings • Industrial coatings
• Marine coatings • Powder coatings •
Fine arts materials

KEY EXECUTIVES

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

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1983

REVENUE: $189,586,219 million MARKETS SERVED

• Powder coatings • Marine • Industrial • Protective • Automotive Refinish • Varnishes

KEY EXECUTIVES

Reinaldo Richter, managing director; sales mgn; sales managers: Adilson Cesar Demathe, Pedro Reibaldi Neto, Mauro José Deretti, customer service and intl sales mgr