The NOF Corporation, CHARDON, OH., announced today that their worldwide group of anti-corrosion coatings companies have changed their company names. All companies of NOF’s Anti-Corrosion division are now known as part of the NOF Metal Coatings Group. The new company names reflect their common ownership and globally unified partnership. NOF Metal Coatings Group companies are NOF Metal Coatings North America Inc., (formerly named Metal Coatings International), NOF Metal Coatings Europe (formerly DACRAL), NOF Metal Coatings South America (formerly Metal Coatings Brazil), NOF Metal Coatings Asia Pacific (formerly Nippon Dacro Shamrock), NOF Metal Coatings Shanghai (formerly Shanghai NDS), and NOF Metal Coatings Korea (formerly Korea Shamrock). “To convey our group’s global resources as leader of the anti-corrosion market, we have unified our company names under the auspices of NOF Metal Coatings Group. Our unification will make us a stronger, more efficient organization,” said NOF Corporation President & Chief Executive Officer Hirokazu Ohike. “We will leverage our synergy to serve all members of our intercontinental industry, committed to creating new anti-corrosion technology.”
NOF Metal Coating Group Unifies
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