Boero Group
Genoa, Italy
www.gruppoboero.it
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PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1831
REVENUE: $124 million
MARKETS SERVED
• Decorative coatings • Maine coatings •
Yacht coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Andreina Boero, president; Cristina
Cavalleroni, VP; Giorgio Rupnik, CEO;
Olga Bottaro, technical director
Boero Group is Italy’s paint and coatings leader in the mar- kets its serves. Architectural and decorative paint brands in the firm’s portfolio include Boero Colori; Rover Attiva; and
Grandi Superfici. Yacht brands include Boero Yacht Paint; Vene-ziani Yachting and Attiva Marine. The marine category offers the
Boat brand. Boero Group operates two manufacturing facilities.
Boero recently introduced Rovertherm coat systems for energy efficiency in buildings and it also launched a water-based wood coatings range.
With sales of approximately $125 million in 2013, Em- pils 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.
PRIVATE COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1991
REVENUE: $125 million
MARKETS SERVED
• Decorative coatings • Industrial coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Victor Stolbchenko, GM; Roman Setin,
GM’s first deputy; Vadim Zaytsev, sales
and decorative coatings segment mng
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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 2013 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.
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 2013 PACHIN reported revenue
of $135,520 million. 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 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.
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
Samwha
Seoul, South Korea
www.spi.co.kr82
PRIVATE COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1958
REVENUE: $135,520
MARKETS SERVED
• Decorative paints • Industrial paints
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 manager
PACHIN
Cairo, Eqypt
www.pachin.com
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