Boost for local content as Berger Paints wins NLNG coatings contract

Berger Paints Nigeria Plc has emerged a beneficiary of the Nigeria Local Content Act as it has won a contract to manufacture and supply coatings for two new NLNG carriers to be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea.

Consequent upon this, the management of Nigeria LNG has paid a visit to Berger Paints in Ikeja, Lagos, as a step required in the monitoring of the implementation of the Nigeria Local Content Act.

Receiving the Nigeria LNG Limited team at the premises of Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Tor Nygard, managing director, Berger Paints, said his company was glad to be partners with NLNG in delivering the Nigeria Content Act.

“We will like to let you know that since the discussions on the participation in delivering the Local Content Act in Nigeria started, we have taken steps to demonstrate our commitment to the act by scaling up the standards of our operations and products,” Nygard said.

After a factory tour for the inspection of the paints to be shipped to Korea, Henry Agbodjan, head of shipping and knowledge transfer for Nigeria LNG Limited, said, “I am very pleased with the quantum of investments in terms of equipments which Berger Paints has deployed in ensuring the manufacture of paints and coatings locally. In compliance with global standards,  their products are at par with those produced by KCC in Korea, which will be used by Hyundai Heavy Industries in the coating of two new NLNG vessels.”

The managing director of Berger Paints went on to assure the visiting team of the company’s capacity to do more than it is currently doing in view of the upgrade to full automation of its production facility in a bid to improve its offering.  He further said the automation would have major positive impacts on production volume, costs, product quality and turn–around time. He also reiterated that Berger Paints was committed to delivering global quality to Nigerians at affordable prices.

ODINAKA ANUDU