STRENGTH OF SINGAPORE PAINT AND COATING COMPANIES AND MARKET SHOULD AID RECOVERY FROM COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Few countries could claim to have weathered Covid-19 well but Singapore, micro-managed and highly-educated, is high on the shortlist. Even so, Covid-19 has had a detrimental effect on the southeast Asian city state’s paints and coatings sector and its impacts continue to linger. Up until its Covid-19 lockdown, which in Singapore was imposed progressively in April, the country’s paints and coatings sector had been witnessing a steady increase in production in volume terms. Paints and coatings volumes made in Singapore were around 100,000 – 110,000 tonnes in ...


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