At the end of March, China Promotion Committee for Top Brand Strategy issued the estimated range of China Famous Brand Products for the year 2005. Coatings product is listed in the catalogue of China famous brand for the first time. The coatings category is architecture coatings (including inner and exterior coatings) this year. The specification of products quality has been issued recently. The estimation work of Global China Famous Brand Product will be carried out through this year for the first time.

The architecture coatings (inner and exterior coatings) are listed as No. 054 in the catalogue of China Famous Brand Products. Those involved companies can go to the local authority of quality and technology supervision to make application from April 30 th to May 30 th if they are qualified to make their sales value more than 0.4 billion RMB in 2004.

The quality specification of No.054 architecture coatings (inner and exterior coatings) is as follows:

? Inner coatings

The state in container; applicability; film appearance; drying time; contrast ratio (white and light color); alkali resistance (24h); scrub resistance; low temperature stability

? Exterior Coatings

The state in container; applicability; film appearance; drying time; contrast ratio (white and light color); water resistance; scrub resistance; resistance to artificial ageing (white and light color), such as: chalking, discoloration, other color; low temperature stability; resistance to temperature-change (5 times cycling); resistance to contamination (white and light color).

Although only architecture coatings are listed in China Famous Brand, it will drive the development of the famous brand strategy in the whole coatings industry. Especially coatings in the catalogue can break a new path for the coatings manufacturers. Famous brand road is the effective approach for manufacturers to go, because it can improve companies' competition, realize self-value and keep counterfeit products away to maintain companies' benefits. These kinds of propaganda can drive the development of the whole coatings industry and have active effects for our coatings industry!

China National Coatings Industry Association

National Paint & Coatings Industry Information Center

May 16 th , 2005