Business profile
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The latest technology in protective coatings is designed to extend project life cycles, reduce maintenance costs and ensure large financial savings
he Jotun Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of paints, coatings and powder coatings, with 74 companies and 39 production facilities servicing all continents. Jotun is unique in offering high quality, best performance, and leading-edge technology.
Jotun protects property The Flixborough factory in the UK is the Norwegian-owned Jotun Group’s biggest protective coatings factory in Europe and produces 30-million litres of protective and marine coatings every year. Jotun employs more than 9,000 people globally, 250 of whom are UK-based. The UK plant is going from strength- to-strength with record production and sales, and takes pride in being one of the most efficient within the Jotun Group worldwide, reflecting the skill and commitment of the workforce and its use of initiatives such as lean manufacturing.
A global player
Jotun is a trusted brand for international prestigious projects, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Petronas Twin towers in Malaysia - the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Taizhou Yangtze Highway Bridge in China among many other bridges, and a fifth of the world’s shipping. Protective products include high performance coatings for infrastructure, offshore, energy and industrial sectors. Jotun products provide protection for steelwork against fire and corrosion in aggressive urban and offshore environments.
Why chose Jotun?
Jotun partners with clients to understand project specific needs and provide technical advice to support customers for best results at each stage of the job by offering quality control.
The company’s first class products, combined with a wide range of highly professional services, warrant the fulfilment of timelines and financial savings.
All Jotun coating technical advisors are highly trained and experienced, capable of assessing and analysing customer requirements, which range across all aspects of surface preparation, application, inspection and coating technology.
The Eiffel Tower Winning major projects
Jotun works with many companies, providing coatings for the constructional steel industry, energy production and chemical and refinery businesses. In the UK, Jotun is also winning major projects protecting and decorating the rail infrastructure.
‘Continuous innovation has been the cornerstone of our growth and success,’ says Richard Chapman, Jotun UK managing director. ‘Jotun has remained committed to meeting market needs through the development of innovative, high-quality products and maintaining its reputation for raising benchmarks within the paint manufacturing industry. This has enabled us to almost treble our UK business in the last eight years.’
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Alan Crawford, commercial director for MacLean & Speirs, is a satisfied customer, and says: ‘The team at Jotun is instrumental in ensuring excellent product supply throughout the application period. The ease of application, good coverage and drying time for Jotun’s products has given us confidence to use the company as our protective coating supplier.’
Protective products and local references Jotun Paints (Europe) Ltd offers advanced products incorporating latest technological developments to meet the specialised needs of the rail marketplace. ‘At Jotun, we keep close to the infrastructure rail market by listening to the needs of Network Rail, the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), specifiers, testing laboratories, structural engineers, main contractors and applicators, in both new
The future is innovation
Jotun’s success in responding to emerging market trends and complex competitive conditions in different markets can be attributed to investment in its Research & Development laboratories around the world. Jotun’s laboratory facilities are centred in Sandefjord, Norway, with regional laboratories in Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and South Korea. Jotun engineers are constantly working on the development of performance-driven functional coatings and specialised products for specific industry segments.
Environmental Sustainability Jotun is committed to providing a sustainable and profitable business through long-term market leadership and to constantly strive for perfection in all of its products.
Through the Jotun Green Steps programme, Jotun ensures waste and hazardous material reduction, product innovations that reduce energy usage, new processes that lower its carbon footprint, and the creation of more products with lower volatile organic compound emissions.
Jotun’s R&D has been behind the launch of market moving coating products and solutions such as Waterfine, Hardtop and Jotamastic.
Waterfine is an innovative water-based formulation based on high solid has been tested and approved. This coating reduces and eliminates ozone depleting VOC’s
Chongqing Chaotianmen Bridge, China
construction and maintenance,’ said David Horvath, European infrastructure manager, Jotun Protective Coatings.
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