PHILIPPINES DEMAND FOR PAINT STILL AWAITS BOOST FROM TYPHOON HAIYAN REPAIRS
June 8th, 2014
AFTER in November 2013 Typhoon Haiyan (local name: Yolanda) smashed into the Philippines’ Visayas island chain, killing 6,000 people and destroying or damaging about 1 million homes, plus schools and other infrastructure, a lot of repainting and recoating was required.However, while the country’s government spoke of committing some USD8 billion for reconstructing and rehabilitating the devastated areas, nine months on, few replacement housing units have been built, indeed some May local press reports suggest none at all have been constructed. As a result, an ...
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