LEADING paint manufacturer Sigma Paints’ performance in the Middle East has been exemplary even in the face of the hard economic conditions thrown up by the global financial crisis. The sharp fall in GDP rates across the world has indeed created some very challenging economic times for PPG/Sigma and virtually every other company and industry.

SIGMA Paints plans to hold 15 applicator seminars in Saudi Arabia in conjunction with the launch of two new product groups in the kingdom – Sigma Guardian Shell and Sigmulto Lumiere. Some 1,500 people are expected to attend the seminars, which will take place this month (November 14 and 25).

RAGHADAN, one of the Arab world’s largest paint companies, has recently launched a new range of silicon and anti-microbial coating systems, which focus on protecting building structures at the micro level, maintaining their value, and minimising their maintenance cost.

JOTUN Paints, a leading producer and supplier of paints and coatings, is promoting its eco-friendly paint brand Jotashield Thermo in a bid to extend its support for the ‘green building’ concept in Qatar.

IN a landmark trademark licence agreement, one of the Middle East’s biggest paint producers, National Paints Factories Company, will integrate DuPont’s Teflon surface protector into six different coating products.

THE Grnata Group, a Bahrain-based real estate firm, has taken on a number of agencies over the past year in a bid to diversify its business and become a source for innovative products.