Stardust Guarantees Supplies Despite Raw Material Shortage

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As the major industry associations have highlighted, paint manufacturers all over the world have been facing serious challenges in the procurement of raw materials. This is due to several reasons, including the increase in their demand — due to a more rapid recovery of the market than expected, especially in China — and the difficulty in finding and transporting them. This situation has caused an increase in the price of raw materials, which accounts for more than half of the cost of the coating product. For example, the costs of key components such as epoxies have increased by 60% in Europe.

In this scenario, in order to keep offering a timely, reliable and beneficial service to its customers, Stardust Powder Coatings (L’Aquila, Italy) states that it has invested in improving production efficiency, boosted productivity — reorganizing production in a just-in-time perspective — and further consolidated its relationship with suppliers, a factor that reportedly guarantees the company a constant supply of raw materials even in such a difficult time.

“Our sector is experiencing a moment of great instability in the availability of raw materials — a situation that caused an increase in their price and that surprised the entire production chain, from suppliers of raw materials to coating manufacturers,” says Guido Pozzoli, CEO of Stardust Powder Coatings.  “Despite the persistence of this uncertain situation, we have worked hard in order to ensure the supply to all our customers in the required times. Customers and distributors have recognized and appreciated our effort, the support and reliability shown in this difficult situation and we can only be grateful for the trust placed in Stardust.”