Kansai Paint Philippines Incorporated

The company was established in December 1997. It was formerly known as Philippine Automotive Chemicals Manufacturing, Inc. and solely owned by Mitsubishi Corporation using the products of Kansai Paint Co., Ltd and Thai Kansai Paint Co. Ltd., as means of trading and technical services.

With the collective efforts of management and associates, Kansai Paint Philippines Inc., was established in June 2002. Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. bought 70% and 30% remained as share of Mitsubishi Corporation.

October 2009, Kansai Paint Co. Ltd gains the 100% ownership of Kansai Paint Philippines Inc.

KPPI sources paint products from Kansai Paint Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd., Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited, and Kansai Paint Limited Corporation. The Company widened its outsourcing by using local products through its suppliers or their business partners.

Kansai Paint Philippines, Inc. uses Alesco as brand name. It concentrates on the automotive, motorcycle and some industrial types of paint that ranges from water base to solvent base type and from air dry to high baking types. The produucts can be applied, depending on the design, to metal substrates like aluminum, SPCC etc; to plastic substrate like ABS, Nylon, PP, etc. The paints for metal use the names Magicron, HS-60, Elecron, Acryka, Pyrosin, Aquazol, Paints for plastic use the names like Retan and Ureall and paints for auto-refinish painting use the names like Retan and Acric EZ.

In May 2017, Sales department was created to handle sales and marketing of decorative paints and protective coatings.

KPPI subcribes to ISO 9001 Quality Management System. This is supported by disciplines and programs of Japanese origin such as 5S for housekeeping and horenso for communication.