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Dai Nippon Toryo Co., Ltd. operates in the paint industry primarily in Japan. The company offers various coating products, which include heavy duty, industrial, automo-
bile, refinishing, marine, home use paints, plastics and powder. The
company also provides machines and equipment for paints manu-
facturing and coating applications. In addition, it offers its prod-
ucts in various fields, including electrical home appliances, housing,
automobiles and information-related equipment, as well as for
infrastructures, including high-rise buildings and largescale bridge
construction. Dai Nippon Toryo Co., Ltd. was founded in 1929 and
is headquartered in Osaka, Japan. The company currently employs
In 2014, Carpoly’s sales were $533 million, an increase of nine percent. Carpoly offers products and services to the furniture and decorative paints market. The company has 2,700 employ-
ees, six production facilities located in Guangdong, Shanghai, Sich-
uan and Hebei, approximately 2,400 direct distributors and more
than 16,000 points of sales throughout China. According to Chan-
ghuai Zhou, marketing director 2014, the Chinese paint industry
was still facing challenge and opportunity. “The low concentration
of industry and homogenization of the competition didn’t improve
effectively, which led to low porfit margin of enterprises. With the
rise of emerging industries, the coating industry will have broad
market prospects, and the mature competition in the market will
increase the industrial concentration.”
Fujikura Kasei offers coatings for plastics, which include auto- motive interior and exterior, automotive lightings, cosmetic ontainers and enclosures, electronic appliances, plastic hobby
items and plastic sheets; architectural coatings, such as exterior and
interior building materials, decorative items and housing equipment;
and electronic materials The company also provides architectural
coatings for use in exterior and interior building materials, public
buildings and facilities, decorative items, and housing equipment;
and electronic materials, including conductive paste.

The Coatings Group of Arbon, Switzerland-based Looser Holding AG in 2014 recorded sales of $523 million, the majority 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 Tref-fert 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.

Dai Nippon Toryo
Osaka, Japan
www.dnt.co.jp
Carpoly Chemical
Group
Jiangmen, China
www.carpoly.com

Fujikura Kasei Co. Ltd.

Tokyo, Japan www.fkkasei.co.jp

Looser Holding AG

Arbon, Switzerland looserholding.ch

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1929

REVENUE: $600 million MARKETS SERVED

• Protective coatings • Architectural coatings • Metal baking coatings • Plastic coatings • Automotive coatings • Rolling stock coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Toshijiro Iwasa, president; Norihiro Mashima, director of finance, executive officer; Nobukazu Kawamoto, director of overseas operations; Isamu Suzuki, director of business development;

Yoshinori Hirotani, director of marketing;

Shin Emi, manager of industrial coatings.

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1993

REVENUE: $533 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural and industrial

KEY EXECUTIVES

Donghang Qiu, chairman and president;

Shuchao CAO,vice president; Xiaobo Lu, vice chairman of the board and group general manager; Changhuai Zhou, marketing director; Daimin Wang, technical director.