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Ecopolifix mixing equipment at the Riese Pio X factory.
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Helios Coatings Italia: A New Business Has Stemmed from the Merger of Ecopolifix and Helios Italia, with a Complete Range of Industrial Coating Solutions From an interview with Bine Pangršič Managing Director and President of the Board of Directors of Helios Coatings Italia
In 2009, Ecopolifix, a long-standing Italian manufacturer of powder coatings with two production plants in the Veneto region (in Tezze Sul Brenta for thermoplastics and in Riese Pio X for thermosetting materials), was taken over by the Ring International Holding, an Austrian industrial group with two very different core businesses: the production and sale of stationery and the production and sale of industrial coatings. Since then, Ecopolifix has evolved and transformed from a family-run company with an exclusive focus on the powder sector and on economy of scale to an industrial business. Today, the brand belongs to the European HELIOS Group, which is part of one of the largest groups in the global coating industry, KANSAI PAINT, currently the tenth largest paint manufacturer in the world.
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ith a new name, a new corporate image, an extensive range
Ecopolifix turned into Helios Coatings Italia by merging with Helios
of coating systems, a new customer service paradigm, many
Italia (Gorizia, Italy), while the brand Ecopolifix will stay as well-known
expansion and investment projects in the pipeline, and a
powder brand in the product portfolio. By joining forces and skills and
completely redesigned production organisation, on January 1 , 2021,
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sharing the KANSAI group’s vision, the new company is now able to offer