Complete Coating Services are pleased to announce the signing of a strategic sales distribution alliance for Ireland with Jotun Paints Europe (JPEL) the 5th largest paint manufacturer in Europe. The partnership will combine Complete Coating Services unique paint and process management service, with the advance technological paint manufacturing expertise of Jotun Paints, with its proven track record as an industry leader in specialist coatings.

Our alliance with Jotun Paints will open many doors for Complete Coatings Services in the Irish marketplace. It enables Complete Coating Services to offer to it’s vast industrial coatings contracting customer base in Ireland, products that are heavily specified within the EU and globally by Jotun Paints for the likes of the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and energy industries etc.

“In addition to allowing Complete Coatings Services access to specialist fire protection coatings and marine paints," says John O’Callaghan, Co-founder and Director of Complete Coatings Services. "We are delighted to be teaming up with Jotun Paints, with its impressive record of achievement within the European industrial coating market, furthermore, it demonstrates the confidence placed by Jotun Paints in Complete Coating Services abilities and indeed the Irish economy as a whole, in that they are optimistic in the Irish marketplace’s ability to position itself for recovery, and believe that Ireland is still a country that is open for business during this difficult process. Jotun Paints will continue to support its existing business in Ireland, looking to maximise and capitalise by dealing direct with the design and specifying professionals in the Irish Market thereby positioning both companies to avail of the opportunities that will develop when the economy starts to recover.”

"Complete Coating Services is at the forefront for innovation and added value in the industrial paint market in Ireland, and we are excited about the opportunities that our shared commitment represents," says Pat O’ Mahony Co-founder & Director of Complete Coating Services. "We believe in Jotun Paints technology and its brand and believe its coatings will fit in, and indeed will complement and expand our existing product brands.” “Penetrating further and widening the scope of our product range within the Irish coatings industry has been an obvious goal of our company since its inception and Jotun Paints have noticed this. In the times we live in, we believe that by walking step by step aside each other we will offer our customers choice, value, service and stability in an ever increasing and changing industry”

Richard Chapman, Managing Director of Jotun UK, “Jotun Paint recognizes Complete Coating Services as a very professional and dynamic coatings company, with expertise in protecting and extending life of steel and concrete assets in Ireland. The philosophy fits with Jotun’s values, and we are delighted to gain a strong partner in the Irish market to work alongside our Cork operation and continue our high rate of growth in Europe.

Stephen McCarthy, Senior Manager for the Munster business region of Ulster Bank states, "Ulster Bank are delighted to be associated with the continued success of Complete Coating Services. This exciting new strategic alliance with JPEL demonstrates the hard work put in by everyone at Complete Coating Services in achieving what is another milestone in the business’s very successful growth path to date.

Ulster Bank would like to wish John, Pat & all the team at Complete Coating Services the very best in this new venture. It is great to see that the Bank’s support is helping yet another SME do business”