Aerial view of a large industrial park at sunrise, with long factory buildings, storage tanks and green trees
RFL Group

Backed byRFL Group.

Rainbow Paints is a concern of RFL Group, part of PRAN-RFL: a family of businesses that began in 1981 with a foundry making irrigation pumps, and now includes the paint on your walls.

A paint company with an industrial group behind it. That changes what you can expect from every tin.

Manufacturing heritageRFL began as Rangpur Foundry Ltd in 1981, making irrigation pumps. Four decades of making things in Bangladesh sit behind Rainbow.
Reach across the countryMore than 250 Rainbow showrooms, backed by the group's distribution network.
Long-term commitmentBy 2022, RFL Group had invested Tk 200 crore in the paint sector.
From a foundry to full colour

45 years in five moments.

  1. A farmer beside a cast-iron irrigation pump pouring water into a paddy field at sunset1981

    Rangpur Foundry Ltd

    Maj. Gen. (Retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury founds RFL to make irrigation pumps for farmers.

  2. 1985

    PRAN begins

    The group's agro and food business starts, the other half of what becomes PRAN-RFL.

  3. 2016

    Rainbow Paints is founded

    RFL enters paints and coatings, with an in-house R&D team from the start.

  4. A row of spray paint cans in rainbow colours, one spraying a mist of orange paint2022

    A first for Bangladesh

    Rainbow launches the country's first locally made spray paint, where every can had been imported before.

  5. 2030

    The vision

    To be the pioneer of Bangladesh's paint and coating industry.

Where we sit

One family, many businesses.

PRAN-RFL GroupFounded 1981 · Dhaka, Bangladesh
PRANFood and agro products, since 1985
RFLSince 1981PlasticsFoundry & steelBuilding materialsElectronics
Rainbow PaintsPaints & coatings, since 2016You are here
1981RFL founded as Rangpur Foundry Ltd
Tk 200 crInvested by RFL Group in paintAs of 2022
1stLocally made spray paint in Bangladesh2022
250+Rainbow showrooms nationwide
Founder

Maj. Gen. (Retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury

After retiring from the army in 1981, he founded Rangpur Foundry Ltd to make irrigation pumps for Bangladesh's farmers, and in 1985 started PRAN. The group he built is the group behind Rainbow today.

Head office

PRAN-RFL Center

105 Middle Badda, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh

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Our story, from 2016 to the vision for 2030.

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