Y.S. RANA : CHANDIGARH–If you are a nature lover and sympathizer towards the deteriorating environment than use of eco-friendly home and paint coatings can be a best option for you. More over with having features of eco-friendly these paint coatings are also considered to be cost-effective. With invent of eco-friendly buildings, now a family of eco-friendly paints and coatings have descended in Chandigarh. Aims at protecting Mother Nature from pollution caused due to emission of fumes from paints and coatings, cost of these eco-friendly products are equal or even less than a traditional one. But savings one will get afterwards is more than enough to offset one’s initial expenses.
Manufactured by M/s Colour and Coatings, Kolkata has engineered paints and coating for buildings that ensures houses free from toxin and any other chemicals that can be harmful to health.
While talking to The India Post Mr Amit Singhi, CEO, Technical has stated that the company has assigned the work to paint and coat the Chail Palace and heritage building at Kasauli on experimental basis. These eco friendly coatings and paints are not only limited to homes but also has taken over the commercial, heritage and office buildings in a big way in Chandigarh. The department of Tourism, Himachal Pradesh was contemplating to renovate heritage buildings in the state through these paints and coatings, said Mr Amit.
He stated that the products were eco friendly, no hazardous, health friendly, users’ friendly. The demand for eco-friendly paints and coatings was increasing in the city and government was introducing in offices especially to save heritage building from decay, said Mr Amit. The Environment and health friendly water based colour technology of the company will be of paramount importance in enhancing the aesthetic grandeur of the heritage structures and monumental buildings said an internationally acclaimed museologist Dr. P.C. Sharma, Director, National Le-Corbusier Centre Chandigarh.
Now from office space to malls to residences all are becoming eco-friendly with various kinds of step one of them is paints and coatings. The company has also conducted a survey among the various segments of consumers across the country that included paint applicators, re-tailers, end users have revealed encouraging results about the acceptance of the products. All players are applying eco-friendly paints and coating, seem to be comfortable with shelling out a little more that give them long term benefits. “Demand for these products is growing as people are becoming more and more health and environment conscious.” said he.
These coatings are futuristic coatings and would become a good business segment in future. We’ve been dreaming in color since 1973. And we’ve been preserving, protecting, and beautifying West Bengal’s structures all of that time, said Mr Amit.
For decades, succeeding in these areas has motivated all work here, and continues to inspire and direct our growth today. Since 1974, we have created and sold products that preserve, protect and beautify our homes, buildings and structures. We excel at creating a portfolio of products that our customers desire and demand.
“It embodies success and is distinguished by sustainable brands that shine through the clutter of competition. We embarked our journey in 1974 as Colour and Coatings at Hatiara in Kolkata and extended our wings into Polymer Coatings and Kay Cee Chemicals in Kolkata and Surat in Gujrat. “We are one of East India’s oldest manufacturers of exterior and interior paints and coatings. During the journey of continuous performance excellence, they were the first among the Small Scale Industries to manufacture water based emulsion paints”, told he.
The company claims to be first in developing water-based Polyurethane Coatings for woods and metals in Eastern region. “Caring for the environment, we have developed ECO FRIENDLY, Non hazardous coatings too,” said Amit.
Colour and Coatings is an ISO-9001 (2000) certified company. Innumerable buildings in East India bear the unmistakable stamp of the products. Our commitment to color inspires an ongoing search for the perfect hues, the ones that lead our customers to claim: “that’s the color I want.”