Coatings World - November 2016

“I also felt encouraged to attend the North African Coatings Congress after receiving good feedback from the East African Coatings Congress in Nairobi mid this year,” he said.

“I am optimistic with the huge population in Africa, there are opportunities for growth and people will always buy food that need packaging and therefore the demand for an industry that can meet this packaging need,” he said.

“The North African Coatings
Congress is a great opportunity for us
to meet potential customers and expand
our reach in this market,” said Edward
Sainsbury, an account manager with G&J
Resources Inc. The company, which was
first incorporated in Canada 15 years
ago, manufactures and distributes tita-
nium dioxide pigment that it says are
“manufactured through the most ad-
vanced chloride process, which provides
better whiteness and stability.”
“We would want to know what our
customers want from us and because I
Sainsbury, who emphasised the com-
pany’s long-term business strategy of
“looking for long-term business relation-
ships that work for our customers,” said
the G & J Resources Inc. had an opportu-
nity at the NACC to make new contacts
which would probably lead to product
orders in coming months.

But not all exhibitors were excited about their participation in the North African Coatings Congress.

“I am not sure we are participating in the right event because most of the participants here are raw material users like us and our initial expectation really was to interact more with buyers of the products we make,” said Giangiorgio Griziotti of the Italian firm Co.ver.lit. Ltd.

He said the company works with producers of metallic packaging -beverage especially in the food industry such as aluminum screw caps, boxes, aerosol cans or trays.

“These are some of the people we expected to meet the event and connect with them, make contacts and explore opportunities in the African market,” he said.

Dmg events’ Coating Division marketing manager Kieran Proverbs said this year’s North African Coatings Congress “went beyond our expectations.”

He said the event attracted more than 500 delegates and 35 exhibitors “which provides an ideal opportunity for close contact sessions and discussions among delegates and also with exhibitors.”

“The event is a great opportunity because it really creates a forum that brings together decision makers and customers like no other. Some of the customers interact with people who make investment or business decisions for companies, which I think is a great idea,” said Proverbs.

“The Congress helps speed up the business process because delegates get contacts through which they are able to talk directly to the people responsible for specific company areas without passing

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