22.01.2016
- Germany’s Evonik and AzkoNobel of the Netherlands have broken ground to start construction of a new membrane electrolysis plant in Ibbenbüren. The two companies set up a 50:50...
20.01.2016
- AkzoNobel has boosted its position in the North American hydrogen peroxide market with the purchase of all outstanding shares in EkO Peroxide, a joint venture with OCI Peroxygens...
23.09.2015
- AkzoNobel is strengthening its Performance Coatings business in Vietnam, doubling capacity for its powder coatings facility in Dong Nai and opening open a new office for...
04.09.2015
- Around the globe, market conditions for chemical industry players remained volatile and challenging, corporate chieftains said unanimously in reporting on the second quarter and...
03.09.2015
- Since the industrial revolution in Europe the amount of waste in the region has been constantly increasing. This is because its economies have been based on a “take-make-consume...
03.09.2015
- AkzoNobel plans to spend more than €1.3 million on a pilot plant for coatings resins to be built at its Performance Coatings site in Felling, UK, and scheduled to go on stream in...
15.07.2015
- AkzoNobel's carbon credits methodology for the shipping industry has won the Best Offsetting Project award in the 2015 Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings. Based on nominations from...
06.07.2015
- In a transaction set to close in the third quarter of this year, AkzoNobel has announced plans to sell its biomaterials technology to Ashland of the US. The Dutch chemical producer...
