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Akzo Nobel NV is a Netherlands-based manufacturer of paints, coatings and specialty chemicals. The Company operates in three segments: the Decorative Paints businesses supply interior and exterior paint products for the professional and do-it-yourself markets; the Performance Coatings segment supplies coatings for professional end users such as ship builders, steel and appliance manufacturers and the automotive industry, among others; the Specialty Chemicals segment covers chemicals used in the cosmetics, food processing, plastics, paper and asphalt industries, among others. The company?s product portfolio includes interior and exterior paints, powder coatings for the automotive, construction and appliances industries; car refinishes and fire protective and isolating coatings for a range of industries, including the offshore oil and gas industry and plastics industry, among others. On January 10, 2012, the Company acquired China?s specialty surfactant producer, Boxing Oleochemicals.
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AkzoNobel boosts powder coatings capacity and accelerates shift to greener production
AkzoNobel is investing €20 million to increase powder coatings capacity at its site in Como, Italy – signaling the company’s intent to strengthen its market position and sharpen its focus on greene...
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals plans second increase of chloromethanes capacity in Frankfurt
The project will take place in several steps over the next five years and will raise total capacity by up to 50%, supporting growth of customers that use chloromethanes in the manufacture of produc...
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals building demo plant for breakthrough ethylene amines technology in Sweden
AkzoNobel has broken ground for a revolutionary demonstration plant to showcase a sustainable technology platform for producing ethylene amines and their derivatives from ethylene oxide. Located St...
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals signs co-operation agreement with INEOS Nitriles to expand chelates production
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and INEOS Nitriles have signed a long-term co-operation agreement that will allow AkzoNobel to expand its production of biodegradable chelates, utilizing one of INEOS ...
Partners agree on initial funding to kick off waste-to-chemistry project in Rotterdam
A consortium of companies comprising Air Liquide, AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed a project development agreement covering initial investments in an adva...
AkzoNobel and Evonik start up joint venture plant for chlorine and potassium hydroxide
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Evonik Industries have successfully started production at their new joint venture to produce chlorine and potassium hydroxide at the company’s Ibbenbüren site in G...
AkzoNobel to expand colloidal silica capacity in Sweden
AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €4 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface modified colloidal s...
AkzoNobel breaks ground for European micronutrients expansion project
AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business has broken ground at its Kvarntorp plant in Sweden as part of a project to expand production capacity for chelated micronutrients, which are used as essenti...
AkzoNobel planning further expansion of chloromethanes capacity
AkzoNobel has entered the design phase of a capacity expansion in Germany for the production of chloromethanes. Production was recently expanded when the company converted its mercury-based chlor-a...
Expansion of pharma salt production by AkzoNobel in Mariager, Denmark
The products supplied by the facility are used as an active pharmaceutical ingredient in various applications, including intravenous solutions, insulin and baby food. Prior to the expansion – which...
Avantium takes next step and signs contract with AkzoNobel for pilot biorefinery in Delfzijl
Avantium locates a new pilot biorefinery at Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands. Avantium and AkzoNobel have signed a contract for the pilot plant accommodation and the supply of various faciliti...
AkzoNobel increases capacity for expandable microspheres to meet growing demand
AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €20 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Expancel product line for expandable microspheres.
AkzoNobel to expand micronutrients capacity in Europe
AkzoNobel is to invest more than €10 million in Sweden to expand capacity for its chelated micronutrients, which are used as essential ingredients in the agricultural market.
AkzoNobel invests €12.6 million in new innovation hub in the UK
More than 100 of the coatings industry’s leading scientists are being brought together by AkzoNobel in a new €12.6 million research and innovation hub which could revolutionize the company’s portfo...
AkzoNobel, Avantium, Chemport Europe, RWE and Staatsbosbeheer create a breakthrough technology deployment to accelerate the biobased economy
Avantium announces a partnership with AkzoNobel, Chemport Europe, RWE and Staatsbosbeheer for the development of a reference plant at the Chemie Park Delfzijl. This important step marks the next st...
AkzoNobel, Eneco and Groningen Seaports invest in sustainable steam generation
AkzoNobel has signed a multi-year agreement to purchase sustainably generated steam from Dutch energy provider Eneco. The partnership will help to reduce the company’s CO2 emissions by more than 10...
AkzoNobel unveils plans to invest in UK pilot plant
AkzoNobel is to invest more than €1.3 million to build a pilot plant for coating resins at its Performance Coatings site located in Felling, UK.
AkzoNobel and Evonik announce production joint venture for chlorine/potassium hydroxide solution
AkzoNobel and Evonik Industries have joined forces to build and operate a new membrane electrolysis facility for potassium hydroxide solution and chlorine in Germany. Start-up is expected by the en...
Waste-to-chemicals consortium boosted by new partners
A major Dutch initiative designed to investigate how waste can be used as a raw material to produce chemicals has more than doubled in size since being launched late last year.
AkzoNobel opens new highly energy efficient membrane electrolysis plant in the industrial heart of Germany
AkzoNobel inaugurated its new, highly efficient chlorine membrane electrolysis plant in Hoechst, Germany. The plant is the result of a major conversion and expansion project begun in 2011 and invol...
AkzoNobel invests EUR 140 million to upgrade chlorine production at Industriepark Höchst
AkzoNobel plans to convert its chlorine production plant at Industriepark Höchst to cutting-edge, highly effi cient membrane electrolysis technology. The new facility, which will have 50 percent mo...
AkzoNobel boosting innovative power of UK research hub
AkzoNobel is investing almost €10 million to further boost the innovative power of the UK site where performance coatings which now protect many of the world’s iconic structures and ships were firs...
Akzo Nobel Planning Major Coatings Expansion in Spain
Akzo Nobel has agreed to sell its Decorative Coatings site near Barcelona in Spain as part of an expansion of its business activities on the Iberian Peninsula which will include the construction of...
New Akzo Nobel Plant Opened in Skoghall, Sweden
Akzo Nobel has opened one of Europe’s most modern factories for water treatment chemicals at its Skoghall site in Sweden.
Akzo Nobel announces investment in Expancel factory in Sweden
Akzo Nobel is investing an undisclosed amount in its Industrial Products plant in Stockviksverken, Sweden, which will be used to increase the production capacity of Expancel® expandable microsphere...
AkzoNobel Hengelo Salt Plant to Increase Capacity
Akzo Nobel's Salt plant in Hengelo, the Netherlands, is to increase capacity to meet anticipated demand for electrolysis salt.
Akzo Nobel opens new building adhesives factory in Germany
Rudy van der Meer, Akzo Nobel’s Board Member responsible for Coatings, has opened a new factory for powder-based building adhesives in Rosendahl, Germany.
Akzo Nobel announces expansion Powder Coatings activities in Italy
Akzo Nobel Coatings is investing EUR 12 million in its powder coatings facility at Cernobbio in Italy.