LATIN AMERICA’S PAINT SECTOR REELS FROM COVID-19, BUT KEEPS CLOSE EYE ON POST-PANDEMIC RECOVERY
September 2nd, 2020
LATIN America has been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic – with Chile, Peru, Brazil and Colombia in the top-20 of countries regarding cases per million people – and its paint and coatings market and industry has faced a similarly rough ride.
As elsewhere, because lockdowns have focused consumers’ minds on home repairs and DIY, the paint and coatings sector in this region has not suffered unmitigated gloom at the hands of the coronavirus.
But it has not been easy.
Argentina’s paints and coatings industry, for instance, has suffered a ...
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