Hempel Group

 Jorgen Christian Hempel (1894 – 30 January, 1986), who founded Hempel's Marine Paints Ltd. as a wholesaler of marine paints. He was Denmark's youngest licensed wholesaler, only twenty-one years old. Hempel established his first paint mixing business in 1917. In 1951, Hempel opened the first American factory and, in 1963, opened an office in Hong Kong. Hong Kong office. In the mid-1960s, the company began to produce decorative coatings for the Middle East, and it established its first manufacturing facility in the region in Kuwait in 1966.In the 1970s, Hempel established a Protective coatings division to develop and produce coatings for the industrial market, which includes infrastructure and power generation. Hempel was one of the first coatings companies to concentrate on renewable energy sources and also provided coatings to the first commercial wind farm in 1980.J.C. Hempel, who had been the company's chief executive for company for seventy-one years and died in 1986, aged age 91. Hempel was an internationally renowned company with local management in 38 countries by 2000. In the next decade, it consolidated and bought out its partner in Croatia, China, Morocco and the Middle East