Protective coatings supplier, Hempel, recorded sales of $1.720 billion in 2014. Hempel employs approximately 5,200 people and is present in more than 80 countries and has 27 factories,
48 sales offices and more than150 stockpoints.
The company offers protective coatings for oil and gas, chemical
plants, infrastructure, rail, mining and metal processing, pipelines
and power generation. In the marine segment the company provides
marine maintenance and marine newbuilding products. Hempel also
offers both interior and exterior decorative coatings.
Hempel has launched a new combined primer and mid-coat
designed specifically for wind towers. The new coating, HEMP-
ADUR 4774D, will be used in Hempel’s well-known two-coat
anti-corrosive system for wind turbine towers to address pre-
vious UV stability issues. Hempel’s two-coat wind tower pro-
tection system dries up to 30 percent faster than equivalent
three-coat systems, helping to eliminate production bottlenecks,
increase throughput and reduce drying hall costs, the company
reported. Since it was first launched in 2008, the system has
effectively become the industry standard within two-coat paint
systems for wind towers, and around 70 percent of producers
using a two-coat system for wind towers choose Hempel. De-
veloped specifically for wind towers, HEMPADUR 4774D will
replace the combined primer and mid-coat currently used in
Hempel’s two-coat system and will improve the system by ad-
dressing previous UV stability issues. Hempel is one of the lead-
ing coatings suppliers to the wind energy sector and supplies
coatings to more than 50 percent of all wind turbines, towers
and blades produced around the world.
Hempel A/S
Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
www.hempel.com
PRIVATE COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1915
REVENUE: $1.720 billion s (2013: $1.699 billion)
MARKETS SERVED
• Architectural • Marine and protective coatings
• Container coatings • Yacht coatings • Decorative
coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES
Pierre-Yves Jullien, group president and CEO; Kim Junge
Andersen, group executive vice president and CFO; Lars
Petersson, group executive vice president, COO Marketing
directors: Klaus Moeller (Protective), Christian Ottosen
(Marine), Thomas C. Olsen (Yacht); Monica Li Aviram
(Decorative); David Deters, VP, group R&D.
