Owatrol

ABOUT OWATROL® The product of solid experience, Owatrol® draws its unique character from a dual origin: one North American, with strong expertise in metal anti-corrosion protection, the other Scandinavian, with traditional mastery of wood and protection in marine environments. A premium brand marketed in more than 50 countries, Owatrol® offers a wide range of maintenance products for wood and metal in the building, marine and industrial sectors. Its solutions are designed to meet a dual expectation: efficiency and long-lasting durability. Owatrol® is a Durieu Groupe brand. DURIEU GROUPE An independent French group Durieu Groupe is a family-owned SME with 150 employees that designs, manufactures and distributes high-technology products (paints, stains, varnishes, plastic renovators, lubricants, detergents) intended to protect and enhance substrates mainly made of wood and metal. The Group develops high-performance solutions, designed for long-lasting and comfortable living spaces. 100 years of history and still moving forward Founded in 1923, the Group started with an import/export activity of automotive parts. It very quickly launched the Transyl® penetrating oil in 1933, then the Rustol anti-rust product in 1956, and the first softwood saturator Textrol® on the French market in 1978. Another milestone of the 1970s: the construction of its 1st industrial site in the Paris region. From the 1990s, the ranges continued to expand to offer a high-quality, highly targeted offering. In 2008, Durieu Groupe acquired the brands Owatrol®, De Keyn and Linitop®. In 2012, the Group equipped itself with a new production facility in Northern France and took over the Oxi brand. From 2017, all products have been distributed in more than 50 countries. From 2021, the development of bio-based products accelerated. Awarded in 2023 by the Comité de France with the Palme d’Or for Home Improvement, the centennial Group continues to deploy its know-how with the same ethics as in the early days: quality products, 100% French manufacturing, personalized customer support, an R&D department mobilized to find relevant and increasingly responsible solutions. A deeply rooted CSR policy For many years, Durieu Groupe has been carrying out fundamental, day-to-day actions to imagine products that are durable over time, which integrate in their formulation bio-based and/or biodegradable raw materials, without compromising performance. For its products, the Group has made the predominant choice of metal packaging, infinitely recyclable. Its QHSE department regularly works on the implementation of diagnostics allowing, for example, to raise awareness among its teams of possible savings sources in production flows, or to sensitize the company to climate issues by co-building action plans to reduce its emissions (decarbonization); not to mention monitoring product compliance with current regulations, managing administrative and industrial waste, training teams in health and safety, or strengthening the Group's social and QWL policy. Full member of the French Fab In 2022, the Group joined the French Fab, the brand that embodies companies and industrial sites located in France, which share the desire to develop French industry. A banner that Durieu Groupe defends with conviction.