AkzoNobel Confirms Offer To Acquire BASF’s Industrial Coatings Business
The transaction would include technologies, patents and trademarks, as well as securing supply to customers worldwide. Two manufacturing plants – one in the U.K. and one in South Africa – also will be transferred to AkzoNobel.
AkzoNobel Vehicle Refinishes Reveals 2016 Distributor Council
Council members are asked to serve as ambassadors to other members of the AkzoNobel distribution network within specific geographic market sectors to ensure that information is received, delivered and comprehended in as equitable a manner as possible.
AkzoNobel Confirms Discussions With BASF
Discussions surround the potential acquisition of BASF’s Industrial Coatings business.
AkzoNobel Salutes Outstanding Students With Sustainability Challenge Grant
In its second year, the program awarded $50,000 in grant funding to select high schools and colleges with collision repair programs to advance continuous improvement and sustainable business principles.
AkzoNobel Opens Registration For Acoat Selected Winter Conference
Attendees will participate in classes designed to stimulate thinking, enhance personal and professional growth and promote practices intended to perpetuate sustainable business models. The conference curriculum will address industry trends, technology and leadership training.
AkzoNobel, Chinese Automaker JAC Motors Pioneer First Use Of Powder Auto Body Coatings
Chinese automakers have been looking for ways to meet new coatings standards and Wenping Xing, technical director of JAC Motors, explained that powder coatings offer major opportunities to help meet those requirements.
AkzoNobel Unveils Color Trends Guide For Automotive And Consumer Electronics
The 2016 guide was launched at a special event staged at the McLaren Technology Center in Woking, U.K. AkzoNobel supplies the hi-tech coatings for McLaren Racing’s Formula 1 car.
AkzoNobel Opens $10M Research Facility In The US
The $10 million facility will support several of the company’s Performance Coatings businesses, including coil, extrusion and packaging coatings.
AkzoNobel Helping Rocket Car Break Record In South Africa
Powered by both a jet engine and a rocket, the company says that the Bloodhound is the most complicated car ever built. A conventional vehicle coating was never going to meet the stringent specifications, so the vehicle features paint normally reserved for aircrafts.
AkzoNobel To invest In Performance Coatings Activities In Vietnam
In addition to serving the local market, the expanded plant will also supply customers across Southeast Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand.
