02.04.2014
- Annual results presented by global chemical companies for 2013 showed a diverse picture. This was scant surprise as many were still mired in a transformation process, while others...
28.03.2014
- Clariant announced membership in the chemical industry initiative "Together for Sustainability" (TfS), an organization founded in 2011 and aiming at jointly improving...
07.03.2014
- AkzoNobel has doubled annual production capacity at its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai, China at a cost of around €14 million. The company said the expansion...
08.01.2014
- At the end of December 2013, AkzoNobel sold its Primary Amides business and a manufacturing facility at Kyungju, South Korea, for an undisclosed sum to PMC Group, based at Mount...
02.10.2013
- Lars Hultman, of Linköping University, and Per Claesson, from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), will receive their awards at a special event in Stockholm as well as a...
27.09.2013
- AkzoNobel has announced to invest a total of more than €50 million in China to build new manufacturing facilities for its Powder Coatings and Decorative Paints businesses, adding...
27.09.2013
- At the announcement of the Q2 results in July, AkzoNobel indicated that it had identified further efficiency and cost saving measures that would require €120 million of...
10.09.2013
- Akzo Nobel has said it will close five of its eight corporate offices in Germany by summer 2014 as part of a streamlining scheme that foresees divestment of its Building Adhesives...
