One of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit industry associations, founded in 1913, the Canadian Paint and Coatings Association is the ONLY trade association representing the specific interests of the coatings industry in Canada. CPCA represents Canada’s leading paint and coatings manufacturers and their industry suppliers in the primary product categories of architectural paints, industrial finishes and automotive coatings.

The coatings industry is one of the most heavily regulated sectors in Canada’s economy. CPCA’s core competency focuses not only on high level government policy impacting its members, but provides proactive approaches on legislative and regulatory development on critical issues such as: chemicals management and hazard communication; product stewardship and sustainability; toxics reduction policy; air quality regulations; chemical safety in the workplace; science-based chemical assessment; a level-playing field and regulatory alignment.

Our hands-on advocacy work addresses these issues so that our members can focus on increasing profitability for thousands of products. If there are to be regulations they must be appropriate regulations so as not to stifle investment and job growth in Canada. The industry also seeks greater alignment of regulations between Canada and the United States to facilitate trade flows.

Paint and coatings products touches many end-use markets such as construction, automotive, oil & gas, mining, wood furniture, aerospace, machinery, paper, metal containers and general industrial manufacturing industries.