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Kansai Paint Company

Kansai Paint Company | www.kansai.co.jp


Kansai Paint Company is Japan's leading paint manufacturer, with operations in more than 40 countries spanning the globe from Asia and the Middle East to Europe, Africa and North America. Established in 1918, Kansai Paint has since grown to become the seventh largest paint manufacturer in the world and the largest in Japan. The company is "technology driven" as opposed to being "brand driven" with one of the largest paint R&D centres in the world. Kansai Paint is focused on developing leading edge technology in coatings, spending over 50 million US dollars annually on R&D. As a result, Kansai Paint has earned the admiration and trust of customers through its superior technology product quality and a very high level of services. Kansai Paint is dedicated to upholding its corporate social responsibilities as a leading company in the paint and coating industry as we strive to meet the needs of the global market.

Kansai Paint has more than 2.7 billion US dollars of annual sales and an asset base of about 2.6 billion US dollars. Kansai Paint Japan has its headquarters in Osaka, Japan where it also operates three state-of-the-art automotive paint plants.

As a world leader in technology based paints, Kansai Paint products have advanced formulations that are produced at hi-tech and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities around the world. Various products provided by Kansai Paint group play important role in protecting and beatifying all types of goods and products. As such, Kansai products are highly revered and trusted in wide range of fields for application that includes automobiles, architectural structures and all type of industrial products.

Kansai is the leading paint supplier to the automotive sector around the world. Kansai Paint is supplying car paints to Toyota, Suzuki, Nissan, Honda, Peugeot and Renault worldwide.

Kansai also has a leading position in Architectural paint sector around the world. In India, Kansai Nerolac has major market share. Similarly in Malaysia, Kansai Par has a major market share among the leading players.

Kansai Paint is also working to preserve the global environment while ensuring product related safety and health. Kansai Paint and its group companies strictly follow and practice environmental conservation policies. The Company has adopted proactive systems to cope with the potential effects of all its products on the people and the environment.

With the establishment of Kansai Paint in MENNA region, we have now entered an era of excellence by serving our customers in this region with cutting edge technology and services.