Sherwin Williams paints looking to further tap into Guyanese market

With US-based paint company, Sherwin Williams aiming to expand its reach within Guyana, a lunch and learn event on Tuesday, facilitated by its Guyanese authorised distributor Atlantic Marine Supplies Inc (AMSI), offered local stakeholders within the construction industry the chance to learn more about their products.
Sherwin Williams has been in existence for some 150 years, broadening its scope to reach international markets over the recent decades before making its way to Guyana through AMSI in 2019.
“It’s only natural that at some point, we would’ve gotten to Guyana. It just so happens that Guyana is at a stage now where the economy is expanding and taking off because of the oil boom, Sherwin Williams’ Architectural Account Executive, Omar Mohamed said.

While Sherwin Williams products have been well-received over the four years in Guyana, the Tuesday event was a chance for engineers, architects and other persons working within the construction industry to learn more about the company’s generic coating systems, including architectural, light industrial and high-performance flooring.
“It’s easy to say it’s paint because that’s what everybody knows. But coating systems vary according to the application and the intent. So architectural paints could be for residence [and] commercial properties,” Mohamed explained.
“And then you move into the light industrial – that could be hospitals, hotels, manufacturing facilities. And then you go into heavy industrial, like protective [coating] on marine, and that’s where we see that is a very good relation that we’re forging with Atlantic Marine to get our products to the Guyanese public,” Mohamed said.
Lancelot Gordon, AMSI’s Business Development and Customer Relations Manager, noted that the company’s products are available for use across sectors, with efforts being made recently within the marine industry.
“We are now introducing [the Sherwin Williams] marine protective coatings to companies that operate the rigs, the companies that operate the support vessels and even those [with] equipment that goes subsea,” Gordon said.
Gordon added that AMSI is also working to provide Sherwin Williams paints within the construction industry, most notably the ExxonMobil Guyana headquarters currently under construction in Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
He noted that the products have been well-received by locals since its introduction into the Guyanese market, with hopes for its reach to continue to expand.
“The response has been tremendous. People are excited that we now have US-made products, something that stands up to our conditions, that is durable and is cost-effective,” Gordon said.
AMSI will also be facilitating a hands-on expo today at AMSI’s Rome facility to demonstrate the application of the Sherwin Williams coatings.