11.07.2019
- AkzoNobel has announced plans to invest €3 million in three additional production lines for powder coatings at its site in Changzhou, China. The plant is the company’s largest of...
03.08.2018
- Fifty years after the legendary British speedboat racer Donald Campbell died trying to break his own water speed record, his famous hydroplane Bluebird is making a triumphant...
08.01.2018
- Major US coatings group PPG has reached agreement to buy Dutch wholesaler ProCoatings for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition comes after PPG tried and failed three times last year...
12.12.2017
- The Specialty Chemicals business of Dutch coatings specialist AkzoNobel plans to spend more than €4 million to increase production capacity for its patented surface-modified...
01.12.2017
- By a vote of 99.9%, AkzoNobel shareholders attending the company’s extraordinary general meeting in Amsterdam on Nov. 30 approved the proposed separation of the Specialty Chemicals...
23.11.2017
- Coatings rivals AkzoNobel of the Netherlands and US-based Axalta have ended their talks about a potential multibillion merger to create what they had said would be “a leading...
15.11.2017
- Donald Trump's trade mission to China last week has generated new business opportunities for several US chemical companies, including Air Products, Honeywell UOP and Dow Chemical...
30.10.2017
- Confirming market rumors, AkzoNobel said it has entered what it called “constructive discussions” with Axalta Coating Systems about a merger, adding that the combination of the two...
