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    EU Coatings Companies’ Outlook Generally Bullish for the Near-Term

    Despite economic forecasts of relatively slow growth in the EU, there is still a lot of optimism in the coatings sector.

    Sean Milmo, European Correspondent04.17.15
    After a slowdown in demand in the second half of last year in many parts of Europe, coatings companies in the region have become less confident about the short-term future.

    However, despite economic forecasts of relatively slow growth in the European Union, there is still a lot of optimism in the coatings sector, particularly among larger producers which are active in higher growth markets outside Europe.

    European demand is expected to pick up later this year and then start to accelerate more strongly in 2016, according to figures from the European Commission, the Brussels-based  EU executive.

    Faster growth through to next year is being predicted in Germany, Europe’s largest coatings market. The GDPs of France and Italy, two other major economies, are also expected to continue to recover.

    Also, low inflation and an easing of the money supply by the European Central Bank (ECB) should help to boost  EU business investment, which would be good news for industrial coatings suppliers.

    The German Paint and Printing Association (VdL), Frankfurt, is forecasting a 1.3 percent decrease in coatings output this year.  But is expecting an upturn in the second half of the year mainly due to low inflation, which will stimulate both investment and consumption, and  rising demand across the EU.

    The output decline, likely to take place mainly in the first half of the year, is a continuation of a slowdown in the domestic market since the middle of last year when the VdL was expecting a three percent increase in production in 2014.

    “Coatings production in Germany grew by two percent in 2014 and sales by  2.6 percent (since) business development was less positive than anticipated,” said Michael Bross, VdL director. “Decorative coatings especially did not perform well in the second half, whereas industrial coatings and wood-finishes (were flat) over the twelve months.”

    The German decorative market, which is expected to decline by a further two percent this year, has been hit by uncertainties about governments rules on energy efficiency in buildings.

    “This is a severe handicap, since house owners postpone their investment waiting for better conditions in the future,” said Bross.  “(Better economic conditions) in the second half of 2015 than the first half of the year would help the  decorative coatings sector.”

    Confidence levels have dipped slightly in the UK’s coatings sector despite the country recording the fastest growing GDP among the leading Western European economies.

    In a regular survey by the British Coatings Federation (BCF) of its members, 70 percent were feeling  reasonably or very confident about their short term futures early this year compared with 80 percent last summer.

    “The sector has had a promising start to the year with confidence levels still in pretty good shape,” said Tom  Bowtell, BCF’s chief executive.  Confidence has been high in the decorative sector where  professional  sales have been going up by seven percent in volume terms against two percent in the retail segment.

    In what could turn out to be Western Europe’s most rapidly expanding coatings market the competitive intensity is shown in the way overall sales by value are trailing those by volume. 
    While volume sales of all coatings rose by five percent last year, they increased by only 2.5 percent by value.  “There’s been more price pressure as customers continue to squeeze their suppliers,” said Bowtell.

    Multinational coatings companies in Europe been reporting pricing pressures in the region and its periphery, which together with currency changes have affected revenues levels. But profits have been increased or have remained intact due to the companies having leaner operations.

    Most of them are expecting that their restructuring and cost-cutting exercises over the last years will help to improve margins this year.

    AkzoNobel’s decorative paints business, the European market leader, recorded  a 10 percent decrease in sales in the region in 2014. Since Europe accounts for 60 percent of  total sales, its global decorative revenues went down by six percent to €3.9 billion ($4.25 billion).  However, EBITDA (earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortization ) for the business rose by 12 percent to €405 million.

    Its performance coatings business, for which it does not give regional breakdowns of results, had flat sales of €5.6 billion, but a four percent rise in EBITDA to €687 million.

    In both the decorative and the performance coatings business, which includes marine, protective, powder, automotive refinishing and industrial coatings, AkzoNobel has been cutting costs through  measures such as shortening supply chains, eliminating management layers and centralizing certain activities.

    The lower-cost structures in both operations should form “a sound basis for further improvements in 2015,” said AkzoNobel’s chief executive officer Ton Büchner.

    Europe’s international players in coatings are generally upbeat about profitability, if not sales, because of their success with cost decreases and also their involvement in markets with disparate growth rates.

    “We are delivering the best results ever (and) margins have been good throughout the whole year,” commented Morten Fon, Jotun’s chief executive officer, when reporting the company’s 2014 results in February.

    Hempel, which like Jotun is active in marine, protective and decorative coatings, also delivered a record  EBITDA last year. 

    “This was partly due to favorable raw material prices, but was also thanks to the efficiency measures we have taken over the last few years,” said Pierre-Yves  Julien, Hempel’s group president and chief executive officer.  He was confident the company would meet its objective of continued growth without “compromising cash generation or efficiency.”

    A conspicuous exception to the bullishness of European international coatings operators is Tikkurila of Finland. It has been suffering badly from its reliance on the Russian market where it has production plants and a network of sales offices.

    Russia, whose economy has been battered  by low oil prices and economic sanctions triggered by its involvement in the insurgency in neighboring Ukraine, accounts for approximately 40 percent of Tikkurila’s sales. 

    The country’s economic troubles last year contributed to a 5 percent fall in the company’s sales and a 11 percent drop in operating profit. With the country sliding into even greater difficulties in 2015, Tikkurila conceded that both sales and operating profit would be below 2014 levels.

    “The uncertain economic situation and consumers’ reduced purchasing power will decrease paint demand in Russia,” said Erkki Jaervinen, Tikkurila’s president and chief executive officer.

    The country’s Economy Ministry is forecasting a drop of ten percent in  real wages and six percent in disposable income this year, making a deep recession inevitable.

    Russia could be the major challenge this year to coatings companies and their customers in Germany and Scandinavia, as well as Eastern European members of the EU, which do a lot of business in the country. 
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