KOBATO BV

What KOBATO BV does

KOBATO BV is a family-owned Dutch specialty manufacturer founded circa 1984 and headquartered in Ootmarsum, Netherlands, that develops and applies custom polyurethane coatings to extend the service life of industrial components. The company's core technology centers on polyurethane (PU) processing and coating — including hot-spray, casting, and moulding techniques — delivered through proprietary product families such as Kobaflex (variable hardness 55° Shore A to 80° Shore D), Kobaflex V80 (lightweight aluminium-tipper applications), CP95 (chemical resistance), and Kobaflow (dredging/offshore pipelines). Kobato serves enterprise B2B customers across six industrial verticals — sand and gravel, dredging and offshore, food processing, recycling and waste, iron and steel, and concrete and cement — applying coatings to hoppers, chutes, pipes, mixers, tippers, cyclones, and custom-shaped parts to address wear, glide, noise, and corrosion problems.

The business operates a sales-led, project-based services model with quote-based pricing, multi-year contracts, and in-house engineering, logistics, and project management. A truck-mounted mobile spray unit enables on-site coating of parts too large or critical to dismantle, a service differentiator offered across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Three dedicated sales engineers (René Nijhuis for NL/BE, Gunther Joosen for DE/BE/FR, and Wouter van Ommen for international) drive direct enterprise sales, supplemented by trade fair participation (Solids, Recycling Technology, Maintenance, Pumps & Valves). The facility is ISO and VCA certified, operates nearly energy-neutrally via 700+ solar panels, and is staffed by approximately 20 employees. The company is privately held by the founding family with no external funding, no M&A activity, and no public financial disclosures.

Name

KOBATO BV

Legal name

Kobato B.V.

Website

https://kobato.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

KOBATO BV is a family-owned Dutch polyurethane coating specialist founded circa 1984, serving enterprise industrial customers across sand and gravel, dredging, food, recycling, steel, and cement sectors in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany with proprietary Kobaflex, Kobaflow, and CP95 wear-resistant coating products and on-site mobile spray services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Polyurethane Coating Services

NAICS

Urethane and Other Foam Product (except Polystyrene) Manufacturing (32615)

SIC

Plastics Foam Products (3086)

akta.pro primary industry

Foam Conversion & Fabrication (Cutting, Laminating, CNC, Packaging Inserts) (IMANAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Polyurethane (PU) Rigid Foam Manufacturing (IMANAIAD), Polyurethane (PU) Flexible Foam Manufacturing (IMANAIAC)

Keywords

• Polyurethane coating services
• Industrial wear protection
• Custom polyurethane linings
• Abrasion resistant coatings
• Industrial surface engineering

Headquarters

HQ city

Ootmarsum

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Custom polyurethane coating services: Custom coating, cladding and application of wear-resistant polyurethane on industrial parts and components. Services include on-site coating with mobile spray unit, in-house engineering, project support, and logistics services. Revenue generated from service contracts and project-based work for industrial customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kobato B.V. develops and applies custom polyurethane coatings and linings to industrial components to extend service life, improve wear resistance, enhance glide properties, and reduce noise. The company produces its own proprietary polyurethane formulations (Kobaflex, Kobaflow, CP95) and applies them via hot spray, casting, and moulding techniques both in-house at its Ootmarsum facility and on-site via a mobile spray truck for parts that cannot be dismantled.

Product overview

KOBATO BV is a specialized polyurethane processing company offering coating services and products for industrial wear protection. Their core offerings include Kobaflex polyurethane coatings (available in hardnesses from 55° Shore A to 80° Shore D), including specialized formulations like Kobaflex V80 for transport applications and CP95 for chemical environments. The company provides both in-house coating services and on-site mobile coating using a spray truck. Their polyurethane products are applied to industrial components across multiple sectors including sand and gravel, dredging/offshore, concrete and cement, food, recycling/waste, and iron and steel industries. Applications include drop pipes, drums, transport screws, conveyor belts, pump housings, silos, chutes, valves, concrete pump hoppers, bins, and custom moulded parts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kobaflex: Polyurethane coating product line used for wear-resistant applications, including Kobaflex V80 for tippers and Kobaflow for pipeline coatings.
• Kobaflow

Products and services

• Kobaflex polyurethane coating Kobaflex is Kobato's primary proprietary polyurethane coating product line providing wear resistance, chemical resistance, and corrosion protection for industrial parts. Available in variable hardnesses from 55° Shore A to 80° Shore D with seamless application and good adhesion on many substrates, including specialized variants such as Kobaflex V80 for lorry tippers and CP95 for chemical/acidic environments.
• Kobaflow pipeline coating Kobaflow is a specialized polyurethane pipeline coating for dredging and offshore applications, applied to pipes, bends and flow lines (up to 12 meters) to extend component life compared to carbon steel and provide corrosion protection in marine environments.
• Polyurethane coating application services Professional custom application of Kobato's polyurethane coatings to industrial parts including hoppers, chutes, bunkers, sand washers, mixers, tippers, shovel buckets, and custom moulded parts, delivered from the Ootmarsum production facility with in-house engineering, project support, and logistics services.
• On-site mobile coating service Mobile polyurethane coating service using a truck-mounted spray unit to apply Kobato's polyurethane coatings on-site at customer locations, available across the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium for parts that cannot be dismantled and transported.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 900,000 workers affected daily by harmful noise - polyurethane reduces noise pollution and hearing damage risk
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Sherwin-Williams: Leading global coatings company with a sizable industrial protective coatings segment. Overlaps with Kobato in serving heavy-industry customers but at vastly different scale and with a much wider product portfolio.
• RPM International: US specialty coatings and sealants holding company (parent of Stonhard, Tremco, Carboline, etc.) with extensive industrial protective and maintenance coatings. Comparable industry segment; much larger diversified competitor owning multiple direct specialist brands.
• PPG Industries: Major global coatings manufacturer with an extensive industrial protective and marine coatings portfolio serving the same mining, cement, and offshore customers Kobato targets. Much larger and broader; competition is partial via shared end customers rather than identical niche products.
• Lanxess AG: German specialty chemicals group with a Urethane Systems business producing PU prepolymers and systems used in industrial wear applications. Comparable via PU chemistry and European footprint, but operates as an upstream raw-materials supplier rather than an applicator like Kobato.
• Hempel A/S: Danish global coatings supplier specializing in marine, protective, and industrial coatings. Comparable European industrial coatings competitor to Kobato, with overlap in offshore/dredging customer applications, though Hempel operates at far greater scale.

Direct peers

• Line-X: Spray-on protective coatings franchise best known for truck-bed liners but with broad industrial wear-protection use cases. Comparable to Kobato in that the core IP is a spray-applied elastomeric coating applied by trained applicators at customer or applicator sites.
• Stonhard: Industrial floor and wall protective coatings manufacturer owned by RPM International, serving manufacturing and processing facilities with wear- and chemical-resistant polymer systems. Comparable industrial protective-coatings niche to Kobato, with overlap in concrete/cement and food industry customers.
• Trelleborg AB: Global engineered polymer group with a large industrial coatings and PU/rubber wear-linings business serving mining, dredging, and material handling — the same core use cases Kobato's Kobaflex/Kobaflow target. Most directly comparable in terms of product chemistry and end-application overlap, though at vastly larger scale.
• Belzona International: UK-headquartered manufacturer of industrial protective coatings and repair composites used to rebuild worn or corroded machinery on site. Comparable to Kobato in applying polymer coatings to restore industrial equipment (chutes, hoppers, pumps) with a similar on-site-applied value proposition.
• Rhino Linings Corporation: Global spray-on polyurethane protective coatings company serving industrial, commercial, and vehicle applications via applicator franchise networks. Closely mirrors Kobato's combination of proprietary PU spray formulations and on-site spray-application service model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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