JOTUN

History

Year	Detail
1926	Norwegian business entrepreneur Odd Gleditsch Sen established the company in 1926 as Jotun Kemiske Fabrik A/S.
1928	Gleditsch Sen acquired Gimle Oil Mill to make it easier to manufacture his own products.
1932	The company developed a new marine paint. Named Arcanol, it provided effective corrosion protection.
1951	Jotun opened a new five-story factory at Gimle in Sandefjord, Norway, which includes whole floor was devoted exclusively to R&D.
1953	The company has launched interior paint Fenom.
1956	The transparent stain Trebitt was released.
1961	Jotun established a sales office in Hong Kong.
1962	Jotun opened its first overseas factory in Tripoli, Libya. The new factory served as a training ground for Jotun managers and engineers.
1968	Established a new factory in Thailand, which served as a gateway to other markets in the Far East. Jotun partnered with the visionary Norwegian chemist Gunnar Myhre to create Corro-Coat A/S and finance its first powder coatings factory in Larvik, Norway.
1970	Jotun purchased Henry Clark & Sons, a marine paint manufacturer in the U.K.
1972	A/S Jotun Odd Gleditsch merged with former rivals Alf Bjercke A/S, Fleischers Kjemiske Fabrikker A/S, and A/S Denofa og Lilleborg Fabrikker'sFabrikker's paint division. The merger was a success, and the four companies became Jotungruppen A/S. In 1984, they changed the name to Jotun A/S.
1975	Jotun opened a factory in Dubai, the company's first factory in the Middle East.
1976	Jotun Multicolor was also introduced. As the industry's first computerized in-shop tinting machine, this meant a revolution for the paint industry.
1978	Jotun Corro-Coat opened a factory in Thailand, the first powder coatings factory outside Norway.
1980	Jotun established companies and factories in Malaysia, Saudi-Arabia (Yanbu), Oman, Egypt, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia and the U.K. Around this time, Jotun established several sales offices around the world.
1994	A joint venture was formed with a subsidiary of COSCO to produce paint in the port city of Guangzhou. It helped the company to serve the Chinese market, especially shipbuilding.
1998	Jotun introduced its international HSE (Health, Safety, Environment) standard at all production facilities.
2000	The company has launched SeaQuantum, with this launch Jotun emerged as a pioneer of market-leading, tin-free and self-polishing antifoulings.
2010	Introduced Hull Performance Solutions, measuring hull performance and helping shipowners save fuel.
2013	Jotun'sJotun's state-of-the-art factory in Sandefjord opened. Jotun's first global color card was presented.
2015	Its world's first paint test station opened in Svalbard, a Norwegian island archipelago above the Arctic Circle.
2020	Jotun Hull Skating Solutions was launched. Jotun Hull Skating is engineered to keep the hull (the body of ships) free from fouling at all times. Jotun also invested in a new headquarters and R&D centre in Sandefjord and opened the facilities in 2020.
2022	Jotun Group (Norway) and Med Investment Holding Spa (Algeria) executed a partnership agreement to produce Jotun paint and coatings in Algeria through a joint venture with Technover P.