Profile on Taiho Paint

Taiho Paint Products Company, Ltd. was originally established in Japan in 1949 and in 1987 the company opened a factory in Taiwan. The company established itself in mainland China in 1992.  Taiho Paint currently has four manufacturing facilities; one in Japan, one in Taiwan and two in China (Dongguan and Shanghai). Together these operations generated revenue $210.666 million in 2012. The largest of these operations is in Dongguan, which also serves as the company’s headquarters and employs 1,132 people. Shanghai employs 218, Japan 60 and Taiwan 30. General industrial and industrial maintenance, including wood coatings, make up 73 percent of revenue while the remaining 27 percent is attributed to architectural and decorative coatings sales. In 2011 Taiho Paint (Dongguan) invested approximately $2 million to expand production capacity by 50,000 tons. After implementation of the this increase, total production capacity for all of Taiho Paint’s operations is expected to grow past 200,000 tons per year.

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