POLAND PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE – SECTOR STRUGGLES WITH EU RULES
August 1st, 2006
BY MARK ROWE
ACCESSION to the European Union (EU), with its attendant necessity to comply with environmental directives, along with a surprising surge in water-based coatings, have combined to make the past year an eventful one for the Polish paint industry.
Sales of decorative paints - including acrylic, vinyl and epoxies (the last of which is usually recorded under the industrial sector) - totalled 255.9 million litres for the calendar year of 2005, according to the Polish Government office for Statistics. This represents a 5% increase on the previous year ...
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