Coatings World - July 2016

SK Kaken
Ibaraki-City, Japan
www.sk-kaken.co.jp26

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1955

REVENUE: $752 million MARKETS SERVED

• Specialty coatings • Textured coatings •
Architectural paints • Industrial coatings
• Floor and roof coatings • Fire retardant
and heat insulating coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Minoru Fujii, president; Masahide Sakamoto, senior managing director;

Mitsuhiro Fujii, executive director.

SK Kaken Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of architectural coatings and in- sulating refractory materials. The company operates in three business segments. The Architectural Coatings segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of organic and inorganic aqueous coatings, synthetic resin coatings, inorganic coatings and inorganic building materials. The Insulating Refractory Materials segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of heat insulation materials, fire-retardant and insulating coatings, as well as fireproof paints. The company had 14 subsidiaries. The company has approximately 1,782 employees. SK Kaken was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Ibaraki-City, Japan.

Benjamin Moore Natura paint was recently Certified asthma & allergy friendly by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). This certification comes on the heels of Natura becoming the 2015 Product of the Year in the interior paint category and being Cradle to Cradle Certified Silver, making Natura the most decorated paint by Benjamin Moore.

“This is the latest step in our long history and commitment to manufacturing green paints that are safer for your family and the environment,” said Chris Connelly, director of brand management, Benjamin Moore. “With zero emissions and no harsh fumes, Natura truly is an eco-friendly paint that delivers on performance and color integrity.”

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1883

REVENUE: $805 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural coatings • Wood coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Michael Searles, CEO; Donald E. Devine, chief financial officer and vice president - finance; Ron Schuller chief marketing officer and senior vice president; Michael A. Bonner, vice president - technology.

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Berger Paints India Limited was founded in 1923 and is a leader in the India paint market. The company manufactures and markets a range of decorative and industrial paint prod-
ucts and has operations throughout India with seven manufacturing
facilities, more than 135 depots, approximately 3,000 employees
and more than 15,000 dealers. Berger Express Painting (XP) was
launched in 2015 across India. It is an initiative to upgrade the
painting process using technology to make it “Faster, Cleaner and
Better.” The tools come with an in-built vacuum suction system
which sucks the dust into a bag thereby keeping the surroundings
dust-free and minimizes paint drippage/spillage during painting. The
mechanized painting further process speeds up the surface prepara-
tion and painting process ensuring that the painting job is completed
in about half the time as compared to manual processes.
Formerly known as Materis Paints the company changed its name to Cromology in 2015. The Group ranks second in France for deco paints and is the market leader in Southern
Europe (Italy, Spain and Portugal). With 10 research labs, 13 pro-
duction facilities and 9 logistics platforms, Cromology designs and
produces decorative paints and sells and distributes its products in
more than 50 countries around the world, with a direct presence in
9 of them (Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal,
Spain, Switzerland and Turkey). Cromology operates its own dis-
tribution network of almost 400 integrated stores, Couleurs de Tol-
lens, Zolpan, Robbialac and Colori di Tollens Bravo, which serve
more than 50,000 professional clients and hundreds of thousands
of private customers.