Coatings World - July 2016

Protective coatings supplier, Hempel, recorded sales of $1.734 billion in 2015. Hempel employs approximately 5,500 people and is present in more than 80 countries and has 28 factories, R&D centers and more than150 stockpoints around the globe.

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 acquired Schaepman’s Lakfabrieken B.V, a Netherlands-
based specialist coatings manufacturer with proven expertise in pro-
tective and industrial coatings. Hempel also acquired Jones-Blair, a
leading North American supplier to the protective and waterproof-
ing markets with a complementary set of skills, products and cus-
tomers. Hempel’s Protective offerings was bolstered in 2015 by the
addition of Jones-Blair products, including the Neogard range of
vehicular and pedestrian traffic coatings, protective roof coatings,
seamless flooring coatings and elastomeric wall coatings.

Hempel has completed constructiton of its first factory in Russia. This event marks an important step towards fulfilling a vision of providing increased local support and service to customers in Russia and the wider Eurasian region. This new factory is Hempel’s 28th globally, and in Russia, it is the company’s first site for locally produced coatings. The Ulyanovsk factory will produce anticorrosive coatings for the marine repair and shipbuilding, infrastructure, oil and gas, mining and power segments.

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1915

REVENUE: $1.734 billion s (2014: $1.720 billion)

MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural • Marine and protective coatings
• Container coatings • Yacht coatings • Decorative
coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Henrik Andersen, group president & CEO; Anders Boyer-Søgaard, group executive vice president & CFO;

Lars Petersson, Group Executive Vice President & COO Marketing directors: Klaus Moeller (Protective), Christian Ottosen (Marine), Thomas C. Olsen (Yacht); Monica Li Aviram (Decorative).

17Hempel A/S Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark www.hempel.com

Masco Corp. reported net sales of $2.02 billion, repre- senting 23 percent of total net sales for Masco. The company produces architectural coatings including paints, primers, specialty paint products, stains and waterproofing products. The products are sold in the U.S. and Canada through do-it-yourself channels under brands including Behr and Kilz. The firm’s high profile Behr products are sold through The Behr Process Corporation to The Home Depot, the segment’s and the company’s largest company.

As an expansion of its BEHR PRO professional grade paint
line, Behr Paint has added a variety of quality coatings to its
product lineup in 201 – BEHR PREMIUM Interior/Exterior
Direct-To-Metal Paint, BEHR PRO Dryfall Paint, BEHR PRO
Block Filler Primer, KILZ 2 Latex Gray and BEHR PREMIUM
Granite Grip Coating. These new products, along with the Beh-
rPro paint line that launched in 2015, provide a full breadth of
products for the professional at the right price and at quality
levels that exceed expectations, the company reported. Addition-
ally, professionals have access to enhanced service capabilities at
SuperCenter distribution locations across the country that can
provide product specs, color-matching, high-volume order fulfill-
ment and detailed account management to tackle any size project
from residential to commercial.

“With the launch of our BEHR PRO Professional paint line and the development of these new products, Behr is giving professionals the tools that they need to get the job done right– no matter what type of substrate they’re working with,” said Kelly Kambs, senior vice president of Professional Products & Services for Masco Coatings Group. “This, coupled with our enhanced service offerings and high-speed tinting capabilities at SuperCenters across the nation, demonstrates our commitment to all professional market segments.”