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rentiated service. “One of our key points of difference is
our team’s commitment and ability to overcome all of the
challenges that present themselves during our planning
activities and, in so doing, meet and exceed expectations.
The people who work at Killing really “wear the shirt,” as
it were. We are a highly professional team, but that does
not prevent us from being one big family. And that reflects
in the quality of all our products as well as our employees’
skills to serve our customers,” says Milton, who proceeds
by naming a recent example of recognition for their ser-
vice, which was an award received from a customer in the
footwear industry known as Bibi for a project commissio-
ned to Killing which resulted in improved efficiency, lower
costs and streamlined production. That project, known as
Optimizing the Value Flow, was carried out in partnership
with the very customer in order to reduce costs in manu-
facturing processes and deliver continuous improvements
in shoe manufacturing. “The customer challenged us to
unite our technical teams in order to improve the flows of
information and raw materials up to the end result, which
is the shoe. We accepted the challenge, and now the custo-
mer is reaping the rewards thanks to the well-structured
work we did,” he remarks.
Argentine Paint Market - Paint Industry Slows Down
The local paint market has been experiencing sustainable
growth. So show the latest statistics available from the
National Institute of Statistics and Census (known for
short as Indec, in Spanish), which point to a 9-percent
year-over-year increase in paint production for 2010.
For 2009, the production of paints for construction and
household applications amounted to 159,275 tons, which
compares to the 172,806 tons produced in the following
year. In the meanwhile, paints for other purposes added
up to 63,204 tons for 2009 and 69,955 tons for 2010.
In the course of 2010, however, the situation began to
change. Production levels where impacted by the restric-
tive importation policy imposed by the Domestic Trade
Department of the Argentinean federal government.
According to the analysts inquired by Paint & Pintura,
most of the materials that are used to make paints and
coatings come from abroad and the country is in no po-
sition to replace them for the time being. Many materials
are in containers at Argentina’s customs offices, making
the market anxious about the awaited decisions.
The slowdown in imports imposed by the Argentine-
an government is intended to make up for the nation’s
trade balance deficit. It is also intended for the country
to produce as large an amount of goods as possible. For
this reason, the Ministry of Industry has called upon
chemical and petrochemical companies to double their
installed capacity, develop new process comprising the
incorporation of technologies, supply the domestic de-
mand and take a leap in exports to meet the industry’s
strong demand for products. Accordingly, the chemical
and petrochemical industry is expected to invest US$
25.5 billion over the next 10 years, so that its production
can be tripled.