Jotun, the world’s biggest producer of marine paints, has delivered its best result yet for the first eight months of the year.
The company, with headquarters in Sandefjord, Norway, had a pre-tax profit of NOK 2.1bn ($233m) for 2020 so far, through the end of August.
That is up on a NOK 1.6bn profit in the first eight months of 2019, representing an increase of 36%.