08.02.21
Yaroslavl, Russia
www.ruskraski.ru
PRIVATE COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1838
REVENUE: $103 million
MARKETS SERVED
Decorative and building materials; Automotive OEM; Car refinishes; Industrial materials; Powder
KEY EXECUTIVES:
Valeriy Abramov, CEO; Phillip Savelyev, director of economics; Leonid Maksimov, coatings technical director.
Russian Coatings is a privately-held company founded in 1838. A subsidiary of Industrial & Investment Group Spektr, Russian Coatings is focused on five primary markets: auto refinish (26.7 percent of sales); architectural coating (20.86 percent), powder (20.66 percent) and industrial (19.38 percent). Automotive OEM accounts for 9.54 percent of sales, with other applications and services at 2.86 percent.
Valery Abramov, CEO of Russian Coatings, said that 2020 was relatively good for Russian Coatings.
“There is definitely something to be proud of: demonstrating this are both the final figures and the projects that have been implemented, despite all the difficulties of 2020,” Abramov noted. “During the year, the company’s enterprises produced 36,800 tons, which is 2.5% more as against 2019. The sales growth in money terms has increased by 5%. The overall result always depends on all processes: the sales, production flexibility, logistics and personnel, all are of importance.
“Failures are mainly explained by the fact that during the pandemic, the clients could not work at full capacity,” he added. “The second quarter turned out to be a failure; the situation began to level out in the third quarter, which made it possible to end the year with good indices. The most confident was the building structures segment of industrial coating materials. Sales of anticorrosive coatings accounted for 115%. The sales pattern has been changed in terms of decreasing the number of low-margin products, and appearing of new modern niche products.”
Abramov noted that growth in the shipbuilding market had a positive effect on the sale of RK-MARINE trademark materials.
“About 40 ships were coated, with the result that RK-MARINE products have been included into new shipbuilding projects,” he continued. “Good reviews from consumers were obtained on RK-AVIA materials. The production decrease of passenger cars in Russia had a negative impact on the results of OEM business, i.e. of coating materials for passenger vehicles: the production output and sales volume have been reduced. In general, the cars refinish business was developing not less successfully: the foreign economic activity and the VIKA-shop online store did not cease; the work has been started with the largest marketplace OZON; the new ARMAX tinting system has been successfully tested by partners. All this allowed us to raise the sales by 10%.”
www.ruskraski.ru
PRIVATE COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1838
REVENUE: $103 million
MARKETS SERVED
Decorative and building materials; Automotive OEM; Car refinishes; Industrial materials; Powder
KEY EXECUTIVES:
Valeriy Abramov, CEO; Phillip Savelyev, director of economics; Leonid Maksimov, coatings technical director.
Russian Coatings is a privately-held company founded in 1838. A subsidiary of Industrial & Investment Group Spektr, Russian Coatings is focused on five primary markets: auto refinish (26.7 percent of sales); architectural coating (20.86 percent), powder (20.66 percent) and industrial (19.38 percent). Automotive OEM accounts for 9.54 percent of sales, with other applications and services at 2.86 percent.
Valery Abramov, CEO of Russian Coatings, said that 2020 was relatively good for Russian Coatings.
“There is definitely something to be proud of: demonstrating this are both the final figures and the projects that have been implemented, despite all the difficulties of 2020,” Abramov noted. “During the year, the company’s enterprises produced 36,800 tons, which is 2.5% more as against 2019. The sales growth in money terms has increased by 5%. The overall result always depends on all processes: the sales, production flexibility, logistics and personnel, all are of importance.
“Failures are mainly explained by the fact that during the pandemic, the clients could not work at full capacity,” he added. “The second quarter turned out to be a failure; the situation began to level out in the third quarter, which made it possible to end the year with good indices. The most confident was the building structures segment of industrial coating materials. Sales of anticorrosive coatings accounted for 115%. The sales pattern has been changed in terms of decreasing the number of low-margin products, and appearing of new modern niche products.”
Abramov noted that growth in the shipbuilding market had a positive effect on the sale of RK-MARINE trademark materials.
“About 40 ships were coated, with the result that RK-MARINE products have been included into new shipbuilding projects,” he continued. “Good reviews from consumers were obtained on RK-AVIA materials. The production decrease of passenger cars in Russia had a negative impact on the results of OEM business, i.e. of coating materials for passenger vehicles: the production output and sales volume have been reduced. In general, the cars refinish business was developing not less successfully: the foreign economic activity and the VIKA-shop online store did not cease; the work has been started with the largest marketplace OZON; the new ARMAX tinting system has been successfully tested by partners. All this allowed us to raise the sales by 10%.”
