Paints, Inks & Coatings
The team at Natrium Capital have been significantly involved in the restructuring of the Paints & Coatings industry over the last twenty years and is in an unrivalled position to understand the needs and challenges of your sector.
PAINTS, INKS & COATINGS INDUSTRY SUB-SECTORS
These are some of the key product and market sectors of the Paints, Coatings & Inks industry. Natrium Capital has extensive experience of the whole industry. Many sectors for Coatings have two subsets; new (OEM, new build, new construction etc.) and repair, renovation & maintenance; the latter is normally the largest (click to expand each section):
- Trade (professional painters & contractors)
- Exterior & Interior
- Retail
- Wall paints
- Masonry paints
- Trim paints
- Woodcare
- Specialist products such as corrosion protection, floor coatings, anti-fungal
- Pre-decoration materials such as fillers
- Passenger cars, light trucks & SUVs (OEM)
- Refinish (after market for all vehicles)
- Heavy truck, bus and specialist vehicles
- Railways
- Parts & components
- Electro-coat
- Pre – treatment systems
- Civil – airlines, aircraft manufacturers, small aircraft
- Military
- Space vehicles
- Commercial fleets
- Coastal & inland vessels
- Navies
- Pleasure boats & yachts
- Anti-fouling paints
- Tank coatings
- Anti- corrosion coatings
- Oil & gas, onshore & offshore
- Petrochemical
- Chemical
- Power & energy
- Food processing
- Other industrial
- Infrastructure
- Fire protection
- Tank linings
- Metal
- Plastic
- Paper, board, film & foil
- Coatings for metal coils
- Sheet & strip coatings
- Extrusion coatings
- Primers
- Backers
- Top coats
- Furniture, cabinets
- Wood & composite board
- Electrical insulating coatings
- Heavy machinery & equipment
- Agricultural, construction and earth moving equipment (ACE)
- Motor cycles and leisure vehicles & equipment
- Metal furniture
- Home appliances
Substrate-focused Sectors
- All sectors for metal substrates
- Automotive, exterior & interior
- Consumer durables
- Electronic devices
- IT
Inks
- Packaging
- Print media
- Solvent-based
- Water-based
- Gravure
- Flexographic
- Heat-set
- Newsprint
- Letterpress
- Sheet-fed
- UV offset
- UV screen

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