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With a success story spanning more than 2600km: steel manufacturer NLMK from the Russian city of Lipetsk and BASF Coatings are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their strategic partnership in coil coatings. NLMK is one of BASF Coatings’ most important customers in Russia for industrial coatings.
BASF Coatings’ new head of Industrial Coatings Europe, Francisco Carlos Verza, visited the customer in Lipetsk for the first time and underlined the importance of the customer: "We would like to even more strengthen and expand our successful collaboration with NLMK in the coming years.”
NLMK was one of BASF’s first customers to launch the topcoat portfolio Polyceram.