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More Than Paint: How Kansai Plascon Uganda is Colouring Futures and Building Community

Paul MurungiCompany NewsDecember 11, 2025December 12, 2025

In Uganda, the name Plascon is synonymous with vibrant colour and lasting protection for homes and buildings. But for Kansai Plascon Uganda, the nation’s leading paint manufacturer, its truest colours…

Kansai Paint moves to sell African entity to Akzo Nobel

CEO ReporterThe Big StoryJune 2, 2022June 3, 2022

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. (“Kansai Paint”) has entered into an agreement to sell its Africa business to Akzo Nobel N.V. (“AkzoNobel”), a global paints and coatings company. The sale is…

Kansai Plascon donates 19 tonnes of soap, worth UGX 50 million to Covid-19 taskforce

Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany NewsApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020

Kansai Plascon Uganda Limited, Uganda’s largest paint company has donated 19,360 kilograms of soap valued at UGX50,000,000 to the government of Uganda’s anti-Covid-19 taskforce. Company officials; Mr. Santosh Gumte and…