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COATINGS EXPO
Coating show entrusted
to new organisers
Leading international exhibitions
organisers, dmg events - Middle
East, Asia and Africa, will in June
next year stage Coatings for Africa
2018, the largest event for its
industry on the continent.
COATINGS FOR AFRICA, the South Africa the continent’s
longest-running coatings event in largest producer. SAPMA
Africa - is jointly presented by the members produce more
SA Paint Manufacturing Association than 90% of all paint and
(SAPMA) and the Oil and Colour coatings manufactured in
Chemists Association (OCCA). The South Africa, while many
major trade exhibition will augment of the individual chemists
dmg events’ growing the coatings and technologists who will
industry portfolio, which already visit the event are OCCA
includes six exhibitions held across members. OCCA is an
the Middle East and Asia. international organisation
By volume, Africa manufactures
28% of the world’s coatings, with
Pictured signing the agreement for leading exhibition organisers, dmg events, to stage Coatings for Africa 2018 in Sandton
next year were (from left): Terry Ashmore, chairman of SAPMA, Ian Faux, vice-president: Coatings of dmg events, and Danny
Grady, vice-president of OCCA SA.
headquartered in the UK
and active across the world,
including South Africa.
Coatings for Africa 2018 – to be
held at the Sandton Convention
Centre from May 29 to 31 next
year - will attract senior executives
and technologists from the paints
and coatings industry all over
the world to view the industry’s
latest products, technologies and
services. Delegates will also be
really good locks
able to participate in a developing
education programme, which will
include a three-day conference, plus
coatings-specific portfolio of dmg
and live product demonstrations. events that includes Dubai’s Middle
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East Coatings Show, the Asia
of SAPMA, speaking on behalf of Coatings Congress, the East African
SAPMA and OCCA, stated: “Both Coatings Congress, the Central
of our associations are extremely Asia Coatings Show, the Asia
excited about the new partnership Pacific Coatings Show and Cairo’s
with dmg events. We share the Middle East Coatings Show.
vision of uplifting Coatings for Africa Coatings for Africa joins a