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AkzoNobel and University Form Partnership to Develop Corrosion Inhibition Coatings

The partnership between AkzoNobel and The University of Manchester will focus on the scientific understanding of corrosion protection and the knowledge generated will be used to deliver improved corrosion protection products.

Kerry Pianoforte, Editor03.01.13

AkzoNobel and the Corrosion and Protection Centre (CPC) at the University of Manchester have formed the AkzoNobel Laboratory of Corrosion Protection. The laboratory is a result of a five-year landmark strategic partnership between the largest global paint and coatings company and one of the U.K.’s top universities.

“The agreement was signed in December 2011,” said Simon Gibbon, community of practice leader – corrosion protection, research, development and innovation at AkzoNobel. “Professor Stuart Lyon was appointed on April 1, 2012 as the AkzoNobel Professor of Corrosion Control, based in the School of Materials, to oversee an agreed research program to be supported by research staff within UoM. Two MSc projects were completed in 2012 and the first Post-doctorate projects started on the December 1, 2012.”

The University of Manchester is home to the world’s largest academic unit dedicated to the study of corrosion. Its partnership with AkzoNobel commenced in April 2012 to help tackle the annual $3 trillion global annual