Plascon
With more than 130 years of experience in the paints and coating industry, Plascon has a proud history and legacy in Africa.
It all began with humble beginnings in 1889 when a young Welshman, Herbert Evans arrived in the shanty mining town of Johannesburg with a cart, ladder, and paintbrushes. All those years ago he embraced the core values that Kansai Plascon still strives towards today - to design products that improve the lives of customers through constant innovation.
Evans re-invented the coatings industry by pioneering world-firsts in the paint industry, including the earliest "ready-mixed" coloured paints and revolutionary "best elastic carriage varnish". It was this spirit of innovation and a total dedication to designing products that solve the needs of the coating for customers. Plascon has introduced many ground-breaking products, including the legendary Plascon Double Velvet which became famous for its luxurious velvet finish.
Plascon Velvaglo was also a first polyurethane non-drip enamel in the South African market - a breakthrough in decorative coatings technology - followed by Plascon Wall & All, the first all-surface exterior wall paint which required no priming and undercoating.
Plascon has spent decades designing the leading paints on the market, becoming the first company to offer paint guarantees to customers. Based on the proven performance of our premium brands and breakthrough new technology, we have extended our guarantee from 7 to 12 years on our premium exterior brands, and up to 15 years on our premium interior brands.
Our leadership role in the paint industry does not stop at designing top quality products for the Industrial, Automotive, and Decorative sectors, we also accept that we have a responsibility to make a positive impact on the societies and communities we operate in and in the way we conduct business. This responsibility is rooted in the realisation that healthy societies, communities, and labour forces provide the very foundation of a healthy business.
To achieve this, we integrate sustainability into the very core of our business strategy, we have adopted strict measures on all key environmental, social, and governance issues, setting bold targets to reduce carbon emissions, electricity, water consumption and waste production.
All of this forms part of our constant drive to improve our business both socially and environmentally. We are very proud of our corporate social investment record where we continue to contribute to important and relevant local causes.
This has meant focusing our CSR policy on education where direct infrastructural support has been provided to underprivileged schools.
We are proud to say that our legacy and heritage have built the foundation on which we continue to design, innovate, and develop new products in our three main sectors of business.