AkzoNobel invests in UK pilot plant
AkzoNobel invests more than £1.3m to build a pilot plant for coating resins at its Performance Coatings site located in Felling, UK.
The new facility will create three new jobs and safeguard a further 28 positions at the site. It will provide resin samples for product testing and the possibility to scale up to commercial manufacture. Start-up is expected in the first quarter of 2016.
Adam Bell, head of the scale-up team, says: “This facility will improve our delivery of large-scale resin for testing, while streamlining the scale up process from the laboratory through to factory manufacturing.”
The new facility is part-funded by the UK government’s Let’s Grow Regional Growth Fund.