EXEL industries - 2019 Universal Registration Document

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Business overview of the EXEL Industries group

products on a range of di ff erent materials, such as wood, metal, plastic, glass, or leather.

recognized for its sturdiness and reliability in the agricultural markets of the UK, Latin America, South America and Africa. As an alternative to sprayers, the Group also o ff ers high-performance thermal weeders. This product range has increased in importance as consumers focus on alternatives to chemical weeding. It also meets new legal requirements concerning phytosanitary products for green spaces and private gardens in France and internationally. The EXEL Industries group also manufactures and markets a range of professional garden sprayers to meet the specific needs of industrial markets (in particular the building trade). These products are marketed under the LASER INDUSTRIE brand name. Description of Group companies HOZELOCK group is based in Birmingham, UK. It assembles and markets gardening equipment, with a product range in watering, plant protection, technical hoses and aquatics. The group has fi ve subsidiaries in Europe and around the world. HOZELOCK group’s sales for the 2018/2019 fi scal year amounted to €83.8 c million, compared to €89.2 c million the previous fi scal year. HOZELOCK EXEL is a company based in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône department). It designs, assembles and markets spraying equipment for semi-professional users and gardeners, as well as drawing and watering pumps and a range of misting equipment. The company also o ff ers alternatives to sprayers for weeding, in the form of thermal and electric weeders. The company has a large market share in France through its retail brands, including BERTHOUD and LASER. Its products are also distributed throughout Europe. HOZELOCK EXEL had sales of €41.0 c million in the fi scal year, compared with €41.5 c million in the previous fi scal year. Main competitors EXEL Industries group’s main competitors in the watering market are: „ Gardena (Germany and Europe);

Industrial Spraying With two manufacturing sites in France, in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis department) and Meylan (Isère department) the company SAMES KREMLIN and its 16 c subsidiaries, are able to meet their clients’ needs on a worldwide basis, for all industrial assembly processes (joints and glues), support protection (anti-corrosion, technical primers, other forms of protection) and fi nishing (dyes, base coats, lacquers and varnishes). In order to compete with ever more aggressive competition, SAMES KREMLIN puts its emphasis on innovation, matching each client’s needs on an optimal basis and an e ffi cient supply chain. Based on di ff erentiating technologies, SAMES KREMLIN develops comprehensive ranges of pumps, machines, technical hoses, and manual, automatic or robot applicators. This product line-up delivers significant productivity gains to customers through increasingly precise spraying, while protecting the environment and the health of the operator. Company description SAMES KREMLIN recorded consolidated sales of €162.0 c million in the fi scal year, compared with €167.6 c million the previous year, of which €145.5 c million, or 89.8%, internationally. A pioneer of electrostatic spraying techniques (1925), electrostatic power coating (1960), and Airmix ® spraying (1975), SAMES KREMLIN has a large number of patents and 8.9% of its workforce is involved in R&D. It has six product ranges involving speci fi c techniques: „ AIRSPRAY : pneumatic e ff ect product spraying, enabling the best quality fi nishes; „ AIRLESS : high pressure atomized product spraying using a calibrated nozzle, which allows high flow rates and good performance but a relatively coarse fi nish; „ AIRMIX ® : combined airless and pneumatic spraying, thus enabling high fl ows and application performance with a high quality fi nish; „ ELECTROSTATISTIQUE : pneumatic or rotating bell spraying (centrifugal atomization over a fi ne rim) of droplets of electrically charged product, which enables an excellent quality fi nish with a high performance coating, and also a wraparound e ff ect which allows all faces of parts to be painted simultaneously; „ POWDER : spraying in a controlled fl ow of air or by rotating bell (centrifugal distribution over a fi ne rim) of particles of electrically charged product, which enables an excellent quality fi nish with a high performance coating, and also a wraparound e ff ect which allows all faces of parts to be painted simultaneously; „ REXSONDispense : high viscosity products are pumped, potentially heated, then extruded or sprayed under high pressure, so as to form a web of various shapes and sizes, or a uniform coating of material on a substrate. SAMES KREMLIN designs and manufactures all of its equipment involving pumps, applicators and pressure, temperature and fl ow control devices. The pumps are double or quadruple bearings, diaphragm pumps or vane pumps for the most viscous products. They are driven pneumatically or electrically.

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„ Cellfast (Poland and Eastern Europe); „ Claber (Italy and Southern Europe); „ Fitt (Italy and Europe); „ Dealer brands (various countries); and related to plant protection: „ Matabi (Spain); „ Gloria, Mesto, Solo (Germany); „ Dealer brands (various countries).

2.3.1.4 Industrial Spraying Sales: €194.8 ƭ million, or 25.0% of total Group sales Number of employees: 894 Production sites: 5 The EXEL Industries group’s Industrial Spraying activity comprises the following subsidiaries: SAMES KREMLIN and TRICOFLEX. Industrial Spraying covers a number of areas: bonding, protection, and fi nishes. The products developed by these companies are used to prepare, distribute, dose, mix and apply all types of liquid, powder or thick

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