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The 2025 Altair Enlighten Award has been won by AkzoNobel’s Powder Coatings business and Chinese electric car-maker NIO.
September 18, 2025
By: KERRY PIANOFORTE
Editor, Coatings World
One of the automotive industry’s most coveted innovation prizes – the 2025 Altair Enlighten Award – has been won by AkzoNobel’s Powder Coatings business and Chinese electric car-maker NIO, in recognition for co-developing a new product which will help NIO achieve its 15-year EV battery longevity ambition.
Photo: AkzoNobel
Designed to protect electric battery bottom plates, the specially formulated product within the Interpon A1000 range will triple the life of the battery shielding coatings compared with existing solutions, making AkzoNobel the first coatings company to win the honor in the Sustainable Product category. Instead of traditional charging, NIO enables drivers to quickly exchange a depleted EV battery for a newly charged one at its automated Power Swap stations. However, repeated battery swaps may expose the bottom plate to abrasion, corrosion and mechanical wear.
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