Hempel A/S is a global supplier of coatings and paints in the protective, marine, decorative, container and yacht industries.

Fully owned by the Hempel Foundation, the company was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1915.

The following year he set up his own paint mixing factory.

Hempel established its first factory in the United States in 1951, and opened an office in Hong Kong in 1963.

In the 1960s, the company began to produce decorative coatings for the Middle East, and it opened its first factory in the region, in Kuwait, in 1966.