AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – AkzoNobel Powder Coatings announced plans to invest £1 million in a new powder coatings pilot plant at its facility in Felling in the UK. The state-of-the-art pilot line will replicate the company’s powder coatings manufacturing process on a small scale, enhancing AkzoNobel’s development initiative capabilities and significantly easing and speeding up the scale-up process from laboratory to full-scale production.

“Formulations that work in a laboratory environment do not always transfer consistently to full scale production,” explained Process Innovation Manager Rob Barker. “The new facility will significantly improve our first-pass production capability, which in turn means increased product speed to market for our customers.”