MEETING THE INDUSTRY
Record Number of Attendance at the paintistanbul&Turkcoat Congress The 9th International paintistanbul & Turkcoat Congress and Exhibition, organised by the Association of Paint Industry (Bosad) and Chem Media from 5th to 6th December 2023, broke an attendance record: 1,425 visitors.
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he paintistanbul&Turkcoat Congress has successfully concluded
manufacturers, raw material suppliers and officials from universities,
after two intense days of debates, panels, presentations and
institutes and research centres to discuss sustainability criteria.
speeches at the Green Park Pendik Hotel & Convention Centre in
Bahçıvan also congratulated Bosad and its board of directors for hosting
Istanbul (Turkey). Gaining a great interest from the first day, the event
this organisation.
welcomed the leading companies of the paints and coatings industry as
The first day then started with a keynote speech held by Mustafa
well as senior executives, experts and academics for two days from 5
Tunçgenç from Eva Consultancy in Training and Research on the history
th
to 6th December 2023.
and the present of the Turkish paints and coatings industry. Paint and
The congress – which set out with the motto ‘Towards a Smarter and
chemical industry professionals followed the sessions, presentations
Sustainable Future’ – hosted presentations and speeches on topics
and speeches with great interest. Participants and visitors also had
such as innovation, sustainability, functionality, digitalisation, artificial
the opportunity to examine the fifty poster papers exhibited in the
intelligence and other themes that will carry the industry forward.
presentation area.
Organised in two halls as Turkcoat and paintistanbul, the
The second day of the programme, which was extremely rich of sessions
programme included five keynote speeches, twelve sessions, four
and presentations, also included a panel discussion moderated by
commercial presentations and one panel discussion. In his opening
Hasan Şerefhan, the Technical Factory Director of DYO Construction
speech, Erdal Bahçıvan, the president of İSO, emphasised that
Paints and including leading executives and experts from the industry
the necessity of sustainable production has increased even more
who evaluated the future of the paint industry in all aspects.
due to the climate crisis and drew attention to the importance
Providing information about the current volume of the global paint
of the paintistanbul&Turkcoat Congress bringing together paint
market, Şerefhan emphasised that the Turkish paint industry, with its
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