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10
Junho 2013
PAINT & PINTURA
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Editorial
Coverage of Paint Industry “Oscar”
Shows Uttermost Success
The June issue of Paint & Pintura Magazine is something else. The following pages bring you complete coverage of the year’s
most important awards for the paint industry: the 17th Paint & Pintura Awards, presented to 54 suppliers, paint manufac-
turers and personalities. The highlight was a tribute to two personalities of extreme importance to the business, who were
presented with the Special Award for Contribution to the paint industry: Waldemar Lazzuri, owner of Skylack; and Carlos
Celos Russo, technical director at Adexim-Comexim.
One other distinguished recognition was the “Top-10 Master Company” award, which was presented to BASF for the sum of
all references made to it in various categories and the points scored in each.
The presentation ceremony, held on May 3rd at Espaço Vila dos Ipês, in São Paulo, was attended by 883 professionals of the
paint supply chain and honored by the presence of singer Luiza Possi, who made the evening even more special.
Agnelo Editora would like to thank all of those who in any contributed yet again to the presentation of the “Oscar” of the
paint industry, including sponsors, industry associations, paint companies, suppliers and the people who help us present the
awards and certificates every year. We are very grateful to all of you!
This issue also brings you articles on silicas and hydrocarbon solvents for your reading pleasure, highlighting innovations,
performance improvements and their sustainability appeal. In addition, the magazine covers some important events involv-
ing the industry which took place in the period, such as the 10-year anniversary celebration of the Brazilian Steel Packaging
Association, known for short in Portuguese as Abeaço, the opening of PPG Industries’ Packaging Coatings plant, and the
sustainability forum held by DuPont and Dow.
Enjoy!
Lucélia Monfardini
Interview - Imerys Bolsters Business in the
Paint Market
Investments, new developments, acquisitions and innova-
tive products are some of Imerys’ strategic actions towards
expanding business in the Brazilian paint market.
A supplier of mineral-based solutions to the paint, paper,
plastic, rubber, cosmetic, food, farming and personal care
industries, among others, Imerys has set itself the main
goal of expanding its business in the Brazilian paint ma-
rket. Its plants currently produce 13 million tons of mine-
ral additives per year in various particle sizes and morpho-
logies, according to segment-specific requirements.
Imerys is a business group based in France and with ope-
rations on five continents. The company has more subs-
tantial business in Europe and the United States, but it is
now focusing on emerging countries like China, India and
Brazil. “Basically, we have three business units: monolithic
and construction materials; the Craft business, which
comprises ceramic, refractory, abrasive and casting ma-
terials; and the PFM (Performance & Filtration Materials)
business, of which I am the general manager for South
America. We supply filtration minerals for beverages,
such as beer and wine, oils, industrial products, etc. In
the performance minerals segment, we have a strong pre-
sence in the paint, plastic, rubber and polymer markets,”
says Rafael Navazo, chief executive officer of Imerys’ PFM
business for South America.
A trained engineer, Rafael Navazo has recently taken over
as chief executive officer at Imerys’ PFM business unit
for South America. He started his career at an energy
engineering firm, but soon afterwards he joined Imerys,
having remained at the company for the past 12 years.