Coatings World - July 2015

MIDO Coatings
Alexandria, Egypt
www.midoco.com80

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1979

REVENUE: $103 million MARKETS SERVED

• Automotive coatings (car refinishes)

• Wood coatings • Decorative coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Aly Ghaly, president; Omar Ghaly, vice president; Ramy Galal, board member;

Catings technical directors: Mohamed Awad, Mohamed Farouk, Sheikh Elarab Abd El Aziz, Hisham Eltoukhy.

Founded in 1979, MIDO (International Group for Modern Coatings) is a leading Egyptian company for high quality paints and coating products for a variety of applications. The company develops, produces, and distributes specialized chemical products for many areas of application in the automotive, decorative paints, wood coatings, printing inks, and other different industrial products. The company recently established three overseas branches in Kenya, Sudan and UAE. The company adopted an ambitious penetration plan to establish this new entry model and overcome a lot of logistics and trade barriers which held back the growth of Egyptian presence in these markets as a model, it will be replicated in selected markets across the region in the future within MIDO international expansion plan for the future.

Boero Group is Italy’s paint and coatings leader in the mar- kets its serves. Architectural and decorative paint brands in the ;rm’s portfolio include Boero Colori; Rover Attiva; and Grandi Super;ci. 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 ef-;ciency in buildings and it also launched a water-based wood coatings range.

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1831

REVENUE: $107 million MARKETS SERVED

• Decorative coatings • Maine coatings • Yacht coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Giorgio Rupnik, CEO and director;

Giampaolo Iacone, director of administration, finance & control and director; Pietro Bianchini, operations director.

79Boero Group Genoa, Italy www.gruppoboero.it

Asahipen Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of various paints and coatings, painting tools and wallpaper products in Japan. The company offers water-based, oil-based, anti-rust, spray, gloss varnish, wood, hobby craft and business paints. Asahipen Corporation markets its products through dealers, government agencies, and other outlets in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and southwestern Asia. The company was formerly known as Asahi Paint Company and changed its name to Asahipen Corporation in 1965. Asahipen Corporation was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Asahipen Groups are organized into many paint-manufacturing subsidiaries including Asahipen Corporation, Daiho Tokyo Inc., Asahipen America Inc. and in the ;eld of UV ;nishing it operates Trust Inc.

ICA Group recently unveiled the My Gloss system. The new sys- tem was conceived to ful;ll the increasingly stringent require- ments of the furniture sector, which is based on the need to achieve high-quality gloss coatings using cycles that have low levels of environmental impact. The ;nal lacquered gloss effects of the My Gloss system can be obtained both with colored basecoats and with transparent gloss topcoats, and even directly with pigmented gloss topcoats. Speci;cally, the My Gloss system is composed of versatile products for the preparation of the base surface such as primers, ;llers and UV intermediates with 100 percent solid residue. Alongside these, there are water-based epoxy base coats. ICA said the My Gloss system made it possible to reduce VOCs released into the atmosphere during application by more than 90 percent.

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1940

REVENUE: $114 million MARKETS SERVED

• Onshore, Marine and Automotive coatings • Decorative coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Takeshi Tanaka, president and chairman;

Nobuyuki Goto, managing director; Tatsuo Nishi, managing director and general manager of administration division.

Asahipen
Osaka, Japan
www.asahipen.jp78

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1971

REVENUE: $117 million MARKETS SERVED

• Industrial wood coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Alessandro Bascelli, export manager;

Lorenzo Lavarini, area manager; Federico Bastianelli, area manager; Sandro Paniccia, marketing director; Pierro and Fabio Paniccia, technical directors.