Bollig & Kemper GmbH & Co KG

The company Bollig & Kemper was founded in 1919 by Wilhelm Kemper and Heinrich Bollig. We can look back at 90 years of experience in the development, production and sale of paints. In 1926, Heinrich Bollig left the company. Since this time, the company has been under the ownership and management of the Kemper family. The company has remained located in Cologne, which is the cultural and industrial capital of the Rhineland.

In the second generation, Hans Kemper began to produce automotive paints at the end of the 1940's. The first customers in the automobile industry were the Ford factories in Cologne and Poissy, Peugeot and Renault. The relationship to the French automotive industry therefore goes back more than 50 years. In the years between 1975 and 1997, Bollig & Kemper also supplied BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Karmann and VW.

From 1977 onwards, a second strong support business was created in the field of coil coating paints, which was mainly carried out in the years between 1998 and 2003.

The automotive paint business including the branch factory in Saarland, erected in 1984, was sold due to globalisation. historyreasons and according to the terms of the contract, no automotive paints were allowed to be produced for five years.

Due to the growing demand of our interior and exterior plastics coatings business, Bollig & Kemper Ltd. was opened in 2001 to develop and service the UK marketplace.

At the request of the German automobile industry, we went back to the field of automotive coatings in 2003. The main factory in Cologne started to display capacity restraints in 2005. This was the reason for the decision to sell the coil coating business and to concentrate on the market segments of automotive coatings, plastic paints, pigment pastes and resins. This strategic decision was rounded off by the acquisition of Vernis Soudée in France, which is an important supplier of Peugeot Citroën.