Amsterdam, the Netherlands
www.akzonobel.com
PUBLIC COMPANY; YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1994
REVENUE: $11.61 billion ▼ (2022: $11.65 billion)
MARKETS SERVED:
Decorative paints; Marine and Protective coatings; Auto and Specialty coatings; Industrial and Powder coatings
KEY EXECUTIVES:
Greg Poux-Guillaume, CEO and chair of Board of Management and Executive Committee.
AkzoNobel reported paint and coatings sales of $11.61 billion for 2023. The company has approximately 35,200 employees and more than 200 manufacturing facilities and is active in more than 150 countries. Its portfolio of brands includes Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon.
AkzoNobel recently announced the opening of its new best-in-class R&D Center in High Point, NC. It functions as a product development facility and customer support center for the wood coatings business.
The company's community of North America R&D centers supporting the Performance Coatings businesses includes labs in Troy, MI; Strongsville, OH; Houston, TX; Flying Hills, PA and Lancaster, SC.
AkzoNobel's R&D centers are transforming the company's investment in science and technology while giving customers direct access to sustainable product development. AkzoNobel hosted a grand opening ceremony that was attended by customers, suppliers, employees and community leaders. The R&D centers have advanced equipment, allowing the company to reproduce the application environment and methods for customers and ensures the products provide the intended performance once commercialized. AkzoNobel looks forward to continued growth in North America as the company advances.
Stretching Boundaries in Paints and Coatings
By David Williams, AkzoNobel’s Chief Innovation Officer
Innovation is the spark that ignites our ability to advance our products, services and technologies while benefitting our customers and the world around us. Our proud track record of game-changing innovation stretches all the way back to the 19th century. That’s how long we’ve been developing proprietary technologies and products with built-in superpowers.
From saving energy, absorbing heat and protecting and beautifying assets, to making ships go faster, lighting brighter and air cleaner, our world class reputation for pushing boundaries can be found in every layer of paint our customers apply.
And it’s our talented colleagues around the world who ensure we can deliver for our customers every single day. We’re constantly innovating, embracing fresh ideas and developing exciting new products to help keep us at the forefront of our industry. It’s all about collaboration and creativity – combining our expertise to harness the power of paints and coatings to bring about positive change. And we never stand still, because expanding horizons is in our nature.
Driving bodyshop sustainability
Bodyshops can now take advantage of the vehicle refinish industry’s first repair calculator to measure, manage and reduce carbon emissions. The CO2eRepairCalculator* is one of our latest digital innovations on making a long-lasting difference to customers. It identifies the carbon levels associated with the painting and drying process – including the energy consumed – and is linked directly to the vehicle refinishing products being used. It helps customers understand where improvements can be made.
*CO2e stands for carbon dioxide and equivalent gases. The tool measures carbon dioxide (CO2) and equivalent gases such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which all fall under the term greenhouse gases (GHGs).
Mosquito-repellent coating to help combat disease
People in Brazil have a new ally in the fight against an invasive carrier of dengue fever – a powerful mosquito-repellent coating. Known as Well-being Protection Anti-Mosquito, the colorless matt varnish contains an active ingredient called permethrin. Its repellent action is designed to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can spread dengue also transmit the zika and chikungunya virus.
Harvesting energy from surfaces
Together with nine partners, we‘re involved in ENVISION – a unique collaboration which set out to devise a way of invisibly harvesting energy from surfaces. We supported the project with an innovative coatings solution that allows heat to be captured by colors that traditionally reflect near-infrared light, making buildings energy positive – and existing houses more sustainable.
Cutting-edge 3D color technology
Choosing the right powder coating has never been easier, thanks to the immersive 3D imaging technology by our Interpon brand. The 3D color tool – available via the AkzoNobel Design app – is designed to help architects and specifiers find exactly the right product for their needs. So as well as enabling users to digitally rotate coatings samples, it’s also possible to zoom in and out and view them in the context of different environments – providing a truly realistic impression of what the actual powder coated finish would look like in real life.
