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Berger Paints to market auto refinish paints of Japan's Rock Paint in India

Through this tie up, companies aim to tap the Rs 20,000 crore automotive refinish market in India

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Rakesh Rao Mumbai
The Kolkata-based Berger Paints India has signed an agreement with Japan's Rock Paint Co Ltd to market automotive refinish paints manufactured by Rock Paint in India. The products will be launched next month.

While Berger Paints is already present in all areas of automotive coatings in India, Rock Paint offers a wide range of high-quality, easy-to-use coatings suited too the diverse needs of today's auto-refinish market.

Total automotive coatings production in India stood at 76.1 kilotonnes (KT) in 2012-13 and is forecast to reach 134.7 KT by 2017-18. Kansai Nerolac, Asian PPG, Berger Paints and AkzoNobel are some of the major players

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