Coatings World - July 2016

Natoco
Miyoshi, Japan
www.natoco.co.jp80

PUBLIC COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1948

REVENUE: $123.45 million MARKETS SERVED

• Architectural coatings • Industrial coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

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

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.

ICA SpA is an Italian company founded in Civitanova Marche in 1971 and specializing in coatings for wood. The iCO divi- sion retains intact the personnel, facilities and expertise of Salchi Wood Coatings, based in Romano D’Ezzelino. ICA Iberia is a young company established by ICA Group in 2009, with its headquarters in Benicarló (Spain). ICA Group has strengthened its presence in China by setting up, in 2013, ICA China, which has its headquarters in Zhongshan. The new company is intended to consolidate the group’s presence in China and Hong Kong by marketing ICA-brand products there. ICA Group has been present in Germany (in the town of Heek, in Nordrhein-Westfalen) for 10 years. In January, the company set up a new company in Poland, ICA Polska, following the acquisition of Italcolor.

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1971

REVENUE: $124 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.

79ICA Group Civitanova Marche, Italy
www.icaspa.com

With sales of approximately $131 million in 2015, Em- pils is Russia’s second-largest domestic manufacturer of paints and coatings. The company produces decorative coatings for building and repair under the brand names NEW-TONE, Oreol, Titan, Rastsvet, Dachnaya, Empils, PROFIWOOD, Prostokrasheno and industrial coatings Empils Industrial. Empils products are popular among the customers and presented in wholesale and retail chains in Russia, Kazakhstan, Tadzhikistan, Kirghizia, Turkmenistan and Mongolia. The company exports zinc to Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Poland, Finland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Bulgaria. Product quality is confirmed by a REACH certificate, which guarantees the correspondence to European ecological standards and allows to import zinc oxide to EU countries.

Whitford Corporation is a manufacturer of one of the world’s largest line of fluoropolymer coatings. Whit- ford’s story began in 1969 when the founders created its first product – Xylan 1010 –which remains one of the company’s most popular products today. The firm’s wide range of products serves the industrial, automotive, powder coatings, houseware , electrical component and sol-gel markets. Whitford operates nine manufacturing facilities worldwide in the U.S., the UK, Brazil, India, China, Singapore and Italy. In 2011 Whitford opened its factory in Bangalore, one of India’s fastest-growing and most dynamic cities. On the new technology front, Whitford has broken new ground with its recently launched Eterna Colors, QuanTanium colors, Fusion colors and Fusion X for exteriors.

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1991

REVENUE: $131 million MARKETS SERVED

• Decorative coatings • Industrial coatings

KEY EXECUTIVES

Victor Stolbchenko, GM; Roman Setin, GM’s first deputy; Vadim Zaytsev, sales and decorative coatings segment manager.

Empils
Rostov-on Don, Russia
www.empils.ru78

PRIVATE COMPANY YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1969

REVENUE: $133.44 million MARKETS SERVED

• Industrial coatings • Automotive
coatings • Powder coatings • Houseware
coatings • Electrical component coatings •
Non-stick coatings • Packaging coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES