Coatings World - July 2015

Atomix
Tokyo, Japan
www.atomix.co.jp76

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1937

REVENUE: $117 million MARKETS SERVED

• Floor coatings • Roof coatings • Swimming pool coatings • Traffic paints

KEY EXECUTIVES

Kazuyuki Kobayashi, director and president; Koichi Kita, managing director and executive manager of administration.

Atomix Co. Ltd. manufactures various paints in Japan. The company’s headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan. It of- fers floor and roof coatings, waterproofing materials, swimming pool coatings, traffic and anti-skid paints, paint for mapping systems, and paint to protect road structures from deterioration.

The company was founded in 1937.

Natoco Co., Ltd. manufactures fine chemicals and paints. It offers synthetic resin paints and inks. The company primarily provides coatings for metal, building and other functional materials, as well as related equipment. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Miyoshi, Japan and operates in three business segments. The paint segment is involved in the manufacture and sale of synthetic resin paints, thinners and paint-related products. The fine chemical segment manufactures and sells chemical products such as film-use coating materials, as well as fine particles for liquid crystal displays (LCDs), among others. The others segment is engaged in the collection and transportation of industrial waste products. Natoco has two subsidiaries and one associated company.

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1948

REVENUE: $119 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural coatings • Industrial coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Kenji Kasuya, president and representative director; Susumu Kawakami, senior managing director and executive director.

75Natoco Miyoshi, Japan www.natoco.co.jp

With sales of approximately $125 million in 2014, 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.

In 2014, volume production amounted to 30. 5 thousand tons, and sales volume in ruble equivalent has grown by three percent. Russian Coatings has experienced sales growth in waterborne materials for decorative purposes (+ 6. 7 percent), powder coatings (+ 15 percent) and industrial materials (+ 11 percent). In the decorative business, the company started producing the fire- bio-protective composition for wood in the Premia sub-brand family. The largest growth of production has been exhibited by the powder coatings business (+ 29 percent), the market share thereof increased up to 20 percent, the sales volume in money terms amounted + 15 percent. In the automotive refinish business the sales volume in money terms rose by two percent in comparison with last year; as for the sales volume in tons, it remained at the level of 2013.