香港ジョッキー・クラブは女王様の競馬場と言うことで世界的にも有名で、一般の方々の憩いの場でありながら、上流階級の社交の場でもあります。

そのためそのメンテには細心の注意を払っており、そこで使用される材料は十分に吟味されたもの、また馬など動物も混在するため環境に良いものが選ばれます。当然ながら塗料に関しましても非常に厳しい審査と経過観察が行われます。従いましてそこで選択される材料であることは、香港の中での市場認知を高めることにもつながります。

関西ペイント社はこの3-4年でこのジョッキー・クラブでの採用が大きく増え、内外装から床天井塗装まで、厩舎、会社ビル、社員寮、レストランや冷凍倉庫、トイレなど幅広くお付き合いいただいております。もちろん最初は小さな物件からの一歩でしたら、今では彼らの大型物件にも材料をお出しできるまでになりました。まさに龍馬精神（中国で、健全な精神を以って大事を成就させるといった意味です）の発現です。

特に当社のゾラコートはそのパフォーマンスの高さから内装外装色々な場所で好まれており、今後も継続して使われていく材料となっております。

みなさまも競馬場に行かれることはあるかと思いますが、もし香港の競馬を楽しむ機会がございましたら、馬だけでなく建物の方にも是非お目を巡らせて下さい。そこには日本の塗料がみなさまのくつろぎの空間を創出している例をご覧いただけることと思います。

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Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), one of the most elite social clubs and well-known non-profit organizations, is an exquisite place for members and all-comers to relax and enjoy. 

▼ Shatin Racecourse Parade Ring (Completion Photo)

▼ Shatin Racecourse Grandstand (Completion Photo)

▼ Shatin Racecourse Link Structure (Completion Photo)

HKJC always strives to keep its services and products at its best operation and condition in the interest of its customers. Consequently, HKJC needs to pay keen attention to quality monitoring and control for all its procurements. Especially that with the world going green, eco-friendliness becomes a big YES! Close by the racecourses in the stables reside the most delicate creatures of beauty. These horses require extra care, thus having a comfortably suitable living environment is crucial. This is why we have to be even more sensible when it comes to proposing the perfect material selection for HKJC. It is doubtlessly a great opportunity to prove our impressiveness in the current paint market, given our quality and sophistication in the wide range of Kansai Paint products.

▼ Ice Storage Room 23 and Vegetable Cold Storage Room, with our special floor coating system employed, which greatly improves its hygiene and cleanability

In recent years, there has been an increased number of projects with Hong Kong Jockey Club, for facilities improvement works in Happy Valley, Shatin, and Beas River, etc. Various Kansai Paint products could be seen applied on the external walls, internal walls, ceiling, and floor for their staff quarters, horse stables, grandstand, link structure, restaurant, restrooms, corridors, and cold storage room. Of course, dated back, the first awarded project with HKJC was of small scale. However, slowly but surely we have penetrated into their market by building greater trust, and they are happy to be cooperating with us for projects of even larger scales. As our famous Chinese New Year phrase “the vigorous spirit of dragons and horses” (龍馬精神) connotes abundance of energy and acceleration, we hope for bigger achievements with a noble heart.

▼ Staff Quarter - Racecourse Villa（Exterior and Interior）

 
▼Penfold Park Tunnel（Walls）

Amongst the Kansai Paint products that Hong Kong Jockey Club has previously chosen, our multi-colour textured stone-like coating system – Aqua Zola Coat EX has easily become one of HKJC’s favourites for its form and function. This coating system has been adopted in many locations in their properties, and we are positive there will be more uses, with our textured stone-like paint patterns ever so versatile.

▼ Restrooms are one of the facilities where our textured stone-like paint system could be seen

 

If you ever stop by Hong Kong Jockey Club at your leisure, please walk around the facilities, which have been reconditioned using Kansai Paint. We hope you enjoy the pleasant view!