AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel to build new facility in India
AkzoNobel has announced it is opening a new production facility in Thane, India, to manufacture coatings for the metal packaging and flexible packaging industries. The production facility will mainly serve Indian, Bangladeshi, Shri Lankan and Southeast Asian markets. The facility will have a capacity of 5000 tons a year and is set to produce a […]
AkzoNobel appoints new CFO
AkzoNobel has appointed Maëlys Castella as the company’s new chief financial officer. She will officially take up the position on September 15. She succeeds Keith Nichols, who announced his intention to leave on January 15 of this year. Castella has worked at Air Liquide for the last 14 years, most recently as group deputy CFO. […]
Partnership to monitor sustainable raw material use
AkzoNobel and Solvay have joined forces with Ernst & Young to develop a monitoring system that tracks and quantifies the use of renewable raw materials in paints, coatings and other applications. The partnership builds on last year’s agreement between AkzoNobel and Solvay, whereby the company progressively increases the use of Solvay’s bio-based epichlorohydrin, or Epicerol, […]
AkzoNobel expands in China
AkzoNobel has completed the expansion of its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang, near Shanghai, in China, doubling annual production capacity and creating the company’s biggest plant for packaging coatings in the world. Work started in 2012, when around €14 million was invested in the facility to add production lines for packaging coatings and epoxy and […]
Proposed changes to AkzoNobel’s Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board of AkzoNobel has announced proposed changes to its membership that will be discussed at the company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on April 29. Antony Burgmans, after reaching the end of his second term, is to be put forward for re-appointment. Following such re-appointment the Supervisory Board intends to elect Mr Burgmans […]
AkzoNobel on track in Q4
AkzoNobel has announced that trading into the fourth quarter of 2013 continued to be in line with previous trends. Although the economic environment continued to be challenging, as previously indicated, AkzoNobel’s full year 2013 operating income before incidental items is unlikely to exceed €908 million. The Performance Improvement Program is on track to achieve its […]
Indian can maker wins Asia CanTech Supreme Award
An Indian can maker has won the Supreme Award at Asia CanTech 2013. Easy Pack of India took the award for its Speciality can that uses reverse seaming technology. Held last week in Surabaya, Indonesia, the awards honoured innovations in the Asian can making industry at a prestigious gala dinner. Here is a round-up of […]
September 2013
This issue contains the annual Supplier Profile, the essential guide to equipment, materials, tools and services for the metal packaging industry – this year it is bigger and better than ever. But there is also so much more to read! Mall/Herlan has unveiled high speed bottle necking and shaping machine in Italy, and in China, […]
AkzoNobel to close five German offices
Canned paint giant AkzoNobel has revealed more details of its plans to ‘streamline’ its structure with more than a quarter of German-based roles facing the axe. Following the recent announcements of plans to divest both its building adhesives business and decorative paints stores in Germany, AkzoNobel has informed employees of its intention to streamline its […]
AkzoNobel considers job cuts
AkzoNobel has announced plans to phase out the production of organic peroxides at its Netherlands site by the end of 2016. Under the plans, the production activities currently carried out at the plant will be moved to other existing production facilities in Europe, North America, and China over the next three years. Approximately 215 employees […]
AkzoNobel sponsored award for Taliban victim
A teenage girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girl’s educations is to be presented with a prestigious award. Malala Yousafzai (pictured) is due to, on 6 September, to receive the 2013 International Children’s Peace Prize, which includes a €100,000 project fund sponsored by AkzoNobel The 16-year-old Afghan girl will be awarded her prize […]
AkzoNobel to sell 72 German paint stores
AkzoNobel has said it will sell its German-based decorative paints stores to independent wholesale distributors. The company, didn’t give financial details of the sale, but said it hopes the move will strengthen the performance of its German decorative paints business overall. It aims to achieve this by focusing its activities on the distribution and marketing […]
Packaging coatings merger referred to Competition Commission
The Office of Fair Trading has referred AkzoNobel’s proposed takeover of Italian based packaging coatings producer Metlac to the Competition Commission. This follows OFT concerns that the merger may remove a competitive supplier from the market.
AkzoNobel to take control of Metlac Group
AkzoNobel, a leading supplier of internal and external coatings and inks for the metal packaging industry, is set to buy the remaining shares of Italian based packaging coatings producer Metlac.