08.02.21
Osaka, Japan
www.nipponpaint.com
PUBLIC COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1881
REVENUE: $7.3 billion s (2019: $6.31 billion)
MARKETS SERVED
Automotive coatings; Industrial coatings; Decorative coatings; Marine and Protective coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES:
Masaaki Tanaka, chairman of the board representative executive officer, president and CEO.
Nippon Paint manufactures a wide variety of paints and coatings, including those for automobiles, construction, architecture, wood, steel structures, ships, metal, electrical equipment, machinery, roadways and household appliances among others. Nippon Paint is one of the largest paint manufacturers in Asia and has 33 manufacturing plants and produces more than one million tons of paint and coatings annually. The company employs approximately 34,000 people.
Creation of Nippon Paint Automotive Americas
Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. (NPHD) announced the merger of its U.S. automotive businesses. NPA Coatings Inc., NB Coatings, Inc., and NPAA Chattanooga will merge into a single company and operate under the name Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc.
The merger will bring about a one-company solution for pretreatment, electrocoat, body paint and paint-on-plastic product offerings specifically designed to meet the needs of the automotive coatings market.
NPAC, located in Cleveland, OH, manufactures and sells E-Coat, body paint and pretreatment chemicals to automotive OEMs and suppliers primarily located in North America. NB Coatings (Lansing, IL) manufactures and sells coatings for paint-on-plastic applications for automotive OEMs and their tiers, also primarily in North America.
In addition, the third location in Chattanooga, TN was recently established as the site of a new manufacturing facility.
It will primarily produce E-Coat and topcoats for the automotive market. The Chattanooga location will be a new 270,000-square-foot LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified manufacturing facility, which will leverage some of the most advanced technologies available to optimize productivity and sustainability.
"This is an exciting announcement for us that we believe will yield important benefits to our customers while ensuring the continuity of our business relationships," said Tetsuro Fujita, president and CEO of Nippon Paint USA. "As a leader in automotive coatings, we pledge our continued commitment to providing superior products for all steps of the coating process.
This merger builds upon Nippon Paint’s continued expansion into the North American automotive coatings market and we will continue to invest in our plants and in customer-driven technical innovation with the potential to create new products, new markets, and services."
Nippon Paint Marine's Biocide-free
AQUATERRAS Wins Green Technology Award
Nippon Paint Marine's ships hull coating AQUATERRAS won the Green4Sea Technology Award.
The paint system, currently the world’s first and only completely biocide-free, self-polishing (SPC) antifouling paint, finished first in a global poll for making a “significant technological breakthrough” in marine environmental sustainability, according to Nippon Paint Marine.
"The Technology Award is an extremely important category and Nippon Paint Marine is very proud to have won this award, especially as we celebrate our 140th anniversary," said Seiichiro Shirahata, Nippon Paint Marine president. “Advancement through coatings technology has always been Nippon Paint Marine’s driving force and ethos. We are immensely proud that this commitment to technical achievement has been recognized by those forward-thinking ship owners that have applied the coating, but also to the global maritime industry in general for voting for this technology."
AQUATERRAS was launched in 2017 and "in a relatively short time, the system has received wide market acceptance as it contains absolutely no biocides," said Ryuji Ishihara, chief product officer, Nippon Paint Marine.
"Its ground-breaking technology, developed by Nippon Paint’s team of R&D chemists, paves the way for a cleaner, greener ocean environment," Ishihara added. "By controlling biofouling and maintaining clean hulls, the global shipping industry can help leave our oceans in condition fit for future generations to enjoy.”
www.nipponpaint.com
PUBLIC COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1881
REVENUE: $7.3 billion s (2019: $6.31 billion)
MARKETS SERVED
Automotive coatings; Industrial coatings; Decorative coatings; Marine and Protective coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES:
Masaaki Tanaka, chairman of the board representative executive officer, president and CEO.
Nippon Paint manufactures a wide variety of paints and coatings, including those for automobiles, construction, architecture, wood, steel structures, ships, metal, electrical equipment, machinery, roadways and household appliances among others. Nippon Paint is one of the largest paint manufacturers in Asia and has 33 manufacturing plants and produces more than one million tons of paint and coatings annually. The company employs approximately 34,000 people.
Creation of Nippon Paint Automotive Americas
Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. (NPHD) announced the merger of its U.S. automotive businesses. NPA Coatings Inc., NB Coatings, Inc., and NPAA Chattanooga will merge into a single company and operate under the name Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc.
The merger will bring about a one-company solution for pretreatment, electrocoat, body paint and paint-on-plastic product offerings specifically designed to meet the needs of the automotive coatings market.
NPAC, located in Cleveland, OH, manufactures and sells E-Coat, body paint and pretreatment chemicals to automotive OEMs and suppliers primarily located in North America. NB Coatings (Lansing, IL) manufactures and sells coatings for paint-on-plastic applications for automotive OEMs and their tiers, also primarily in North America.
In addition, the third location in Chattanooga, TN was recently established as the site of a new manufacturing facility.
It will primarily produce E-Coat and topcoats for the automotive market. The Chattanooga location will be a new 270,000-square-foot LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified manufacturing facility, which will leverage some of the most advanced technologies available to optimize productivity and sustainability.
"This is an exciting announcement for us that we believe will yield important benefits to our customers while ensuring the continuity of our business relationships," said Tetsuro Fujita, president and CEO of Nippon Paint USA. "As a leader in automotive coatings, we pledge our continued commitment to providing superior products for all steps of the coating process.
This merger builds upon Nippon Paint’s continued expansion into the North American automotive coatings market and we will continue to invest in our plants and in customer-driven technical innovation with the potential to create new products, new markets, and services."
Nippon Paint Marine's Biocide-free
AQUATERRAS Wins Green Technology Award
Nippon Paint Marine's ships hull coating AQUATERRAS won the Green4Sea Technology Award.
The paint system, currently the world’s first and only completely biocide-free, self-polishing (SPC) antifouling paint, finished first in a global poll for making a “significant technological breakthrough” in marine environmental sustainability, according to Nippon Paint Marine.
"The Technology Award is an extremely important category and Nippon Paint Marine is very proud to have won this award, especially as we celebrate our 140th anniversary," said Seiichiro Shirahata, Nippon Paint Marine president. “Advancement through coatings technology has always been Nippon Paint Marine’s driving force and ethos. We are immensely proud that this commitment to technical achievement has been recognized by those forward-thinking ship owners that have applied the coating, but also to the global maritime industry in general for voting for this technology."
AQUATERRAS was launched in 2017 and "in a relatively short time, the system has received wide market acceptance as it contains absolutely no biocides," said Ryuji Ishihara, chief product officer, Nippon Paint Marine.
"Its ground-breaking technology, developed by Nippon Paint’s team of R&D chemists, paves the way for a cleaner, greener ocean environment," Ishihara added. "By controlling biofouling and maintaining clean hulls, the global shipping industry can help leave our oceans in condition fit for future generations to enjoy.”