Coatings World - July 2016

Boero Group is Italy’s paint and coatings leader in the mar- kets its serves. Architectural and decorative paint brands in the firm’s portfolio include Boero Colori; Rover Attiva; and Grandi Superfici. Yacht brands include Boero Yacht Paint; Vene-ziani Yachting and Attiva Marine. The marine category offers the Boat brand. Boero Group operates out of four hubs: Genoa ( headquarters and Research Centre), Rivalta Scrivia (production site) and Tortona (logistics hub), thus covering the entire country in addition to a French subsidiary dedicated to the Yachting sector; this allows optimization of the production and distribution processes, in a logic of high competitiveness and speed of response to the needs of individual customers.

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.

86Boero Group Genoa, Italy www.gruppoboero.it

Atomix Co. Ltd. manufactures various paints in Japan. The company’s headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan. It offers 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. The company has factories in Kazo City, Kuki City and Katsuta-gun. Sales offices are located in Sapporo, Sendai, Niigata, Yokohama, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka.

In 2015, Russian Coatings’ strongest segment was automotive refinish, with 27. 4 percent of sales. Architectural coatings fol- lowed with 18. 8 percent, powder with 18. 7, general industrial and industrial maintenance with 15. 5 percent, and automotive with 12. 6 percent. The remaining seven percent was varied. In 2015, the company’s production volume was 36. 9 thousand tons. The sales volume in money terms in ruble equivalent rose by 8% against the previous year. The enterprise began the serial production of Prodecor PYRO paint characterized by its fireproof efficiency indicator 90 minutes. Prodecor materials went up to 26% in the portfolio amount. The powder paints business increased sales by 17% and kept its share at the Russian market of powder paints at the level of 9.1%. Starting a new production line allowed Russian Coatings to raise its production capacities up to 6.0 thousand tons.