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It’s taken 12,000 hours of development work, involving 53 expert stakeholders, across more than three years, but ISO 19030 is finally nearing publication, in a move that has the potential to save the shipping industry as much as $30 billion in annual fuel costs.

Catexel has extended its cobalt alternative siccative offering to the coatings industry in a new license deal with specialty chemicals company DSM.

Customers in western Russia are to benefit from local production of AkzoNobel's International brand marine and protective coatings.

BASF is extending its existing production facilities for Laromer^® UV/EB acrylates, which are part of BASF’s C3-Verbund system, at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany.

Beckers Group has issued its new Sustainability Report.

AkzoNobel announced it will combine the sales and marketing teams from its liquid and powder coatings businesses that serve the aluminum architecture and façade and cladding markets.

Although its history dates back to the 14^th century, Heubach entered the pigment business with the founding of the Goslarer Farbenwerke (Goslar Colorants Works) in 1806. Today, exactly 210 years later, Heubach is a leading producer of color and special pigments as well as pigment preparations for a wide variety of uses, from the ink, paint, plastics and building industries through to latex and seed production.

On May 26, AkzoNobel inaugurated its new €6.5 million technology center in Songjiang, Shanghai.