EUROPEAN PAINT INDUSTRY HEAD RAISES CONCERN ABOUT ‘DO-IT-FOR-ME’ PAINTING CONSUMER TREND
January 1st, 2020
In the 1980s, do-it-yourself (DIY) was all the rage. Now, young people’s reluctance to paint their own homes is damaging the sector, regrets the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colours Industry (CEPE)’s managing director Jan van der Meulen – who joined the industry 40 years ago as a research chemist and has led CEPE since 2004.
Meanwhile, regulatory challenges troubling the sector include increasing constraints on biocides use, burdensome poison centre rules and Brexit, said Mr van der Meulen, who will retire in April, in ...
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