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Kansai Plascon has 125-year long history of leading quality assurance and a strong brand presence, known as a coating company you can trust to deliver high quality, innovative and premium quality products Writer: Emily Jarvis • Project Manager: Tom Cullum ansai Plascon can look to the future assured by the strength of its past. Since 1889, Plascon has been the force behind the production of top quality coatings with innovative and ground-breaking technologies, making it southern Africa’s leading coatings manufacturer. Given the rapid company growth over the years, in 2012, the company formerly known as Plascon South Africa was renamed Kansai Plascon, after a merger with Japanese company Kansai Paint, the world’s sixth largest coatings company. Boasting over a century of manufacturing firsts, in November 2014, the Company received three prestigious awards for its forwardthinking point of sales executions at the annual Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) awards in South Africa; nominated as finalists in three separate categories and going on to win gold, silver and bronze.
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