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New High Point, NC R&D center serves as a product development facility and customer support center for the wood coatings business.
June 23, 2023
By: DAVID SAVASTANO
Editor, Ink World Magazine
AkzoNobel announced the opening of its new best-in-class Research and Development (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 laboratories 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. The company is shaping the future through advanced technologies and delivering innovative solutions to customers. 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. AkzoNobel’s new manufacturing footprint in High Point provides the ability to produce the latest technologies without interruption. The company leverages the new R&D center’s capabilities to consolidate solvent-based and water-based product research to drive leading innovations for the wood coatings industry. “We will use the new laboratory to leverage the latest best practices,” said Jim Kavanagh, managing director of industrial coatings. “The application center will contain the latest application and testing equipment that will allow us to mimic our customer’s lines and environments. We will be able to accelerate the time it takes to scale up products for launches without wasting our customer’s valuable line time as we can efficiently and predictably develop, test and industrialize our technologies to meet customer requirements.” “This investment significantly increases AkzoNobel’s comprehensive North America supply capability for the wood coatings market and makes it possible to react much faster to trends,” added Ted Rhee, regional commercial director of Wood Finishes and Adhesives. “It will also enable us to serve our direct OEM customers and our distribution partners better who are currently being served from our High Point factory.”
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