Starting as a family owned business in 1940, the Nelson Paint Company is still a family-owned business today. It currently employs three generations of family.

Headquartered in Kingsford, MI, the Nelson Paint Company has come to establish locations across the country and in Canada to serve it's international clientele. Starting manufacturing in, Montgomery, AL in 1958 to serve the deep south and southeastern coast. Another soon followed in McMinnville, OR in 1960 to service the western US, and most recently a plant was started in Ontario, Canada in 1987.

The Nelson Paint Company has continued to branch out in both geographical and technological areas. It is our continuing research and development of forestry paints and equipment that push Nelson Paint to the forefront of the industry while our stringent quality control standards ensure we stay there.

The Nelson Paint Company is considered the world's leading authority on forest marking products and has been serving the forest industry for more than 60 years. Nelson's , , and are known as the world standard in durable, bright forest marking material.

Other innovative Nelson marking products include:

• , a water-cleanup version of our , is the only option to consider when health and safety are the paramount concern.

• The metal and the , both for use with quart cans of marking paint.

• The for log and railroad tie marking with the Log Mark marking paint.

• , a paste that comes in a tube for the purpose of lettering and numbering.

• for use with the gas charged . Perfect for the hard-to-reach trees or for marking livestock.