Coatings World - July 2015

Kelly-Moore Paints is a leading premium paint manufacturer and retailer located in the western U.S. The company was founded in San Carlos, California in 1946 by William Kelly and William Moore. Kelly-Moore had sales of $284.8 million in

2014.

The company has more than 145 stores located throughout the western U.S. in California, Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada. San Carlos and Hurst, Texas are home to its manufacturing plants. In March of 2015, Kelly-Moore Paints released, DuraPoxy Matte Finish 1600, a super-premium interior matte finish with superior stain release, hide and ease of application. DuraPoxy is designed for the professional painter and performs to the standards of the property owner.

TOA is the leading supplier of decorative coatings in Thai- land with an estimated market share of 50 percent. The company manufactures products that cater to the mid-tier and premium-tier markets. The TOA Group of companies includes TOA Paint Thailand, which is TOA’s 100 percent Thai-owned main base of operation; TOA-Chugoku Paint, a JV between TOA Paint Thailand and Chugoku Marine Paint; TOA Union Paint Thailand, a joint venture company with Japanese-based wood coatings producer Union Paint; TOA Vietnam; Shanghai-TOA Paint; and TOA Paint Malaysia. TOA’s product portfolio includes the Ultra Premium Generation of coatings, including Supershield with self cleaning acrylic technology; and Supershield Duraclean, developed with advance acrylic technology under the company’s Hygenic Formula.

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1957

REVENUE: $295 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural coatings • Marine and protective coatings • Wood coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Arsa Sarasin, honorary chairman; Prachak Tangkaravakoon, president; Motoo Horiguchi, senior executive VP; Rams Das Ahuja, executive VP.

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1946 REVENUE: $284.8 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural coatings • Industrial coatings • Decorative

KEY EXECUTIVES

Steve DeVoe, president and CEO; Roy George, executive VP and CFO; Dan Claybaugh vice president of marketing and business development; Jim Alberts, VP sales.

Kelly-Moore
San Carlos,
California USA
www.kellymoore.com

50TOA Group Bangkok, Thailand www.toagroup.com 49 Dunn-Edwards, founded in 1925, operates more than 110 stores in five western states: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas. It supplies architectural and industrial coatings, providing a complete line of paints and professional painting supplies to architects, designers, painting contractors, homebuilders and property managers in the Southwest; it also serves DIYers although professionals account for a majority of sales. Dunn-Edwards recently introduced Enduralastic 10 ultra-premium elastomeric wall coating. New Enduralastic 10 is formulated with 100 percent acrylic technology, which provides superior durability and flexibility of the coating. The product is low odor, has excellent application properties, and is available in tint bases, which allow the product to be mixed into light, medium, and dark colors.

Origin Electric operates in three segments: Electronics, Me- chatronics and Chemitronics. The Chemitronics division is upported by metal surface treatment and surface plating technologies as well as by its history of R&D in the fields of electronics and coating materials. Energy-saving measures jointly developed with other engineering groups have resulted in developments being achieved in the field of synthetic resin paints. The company operates in Japan, as well as in Taipei, Hong Kong, the U.S. and China. Origin began developing paints in 1947 as a part of its surface processing research efforts creating highly functional paints, including paints used for plastic substrates, water-based paint/TX-free paint and paints used for plated nonferrous metals. Applications include auto interior and exterior parts, cell phones and computers.