Search Results: 'Akzo Nobel'

Finishing touches
25 January, 2017
Coatings technology is helping timber products manufacturers to add value, and enhancetimber’s reputation. Keren Fallwell reports

The Finish Line
20 May, 2015
Stephen Powney presents news and developments from major wood coatings manufacturers

Glee tidings
14 October, 2014
The timber garden products sector is looking forward to a bumper 2015 season. Sally Spencer reports on this year’s Glee exhibition

Predictive palette
28 December, 2013
Akzo Nobel colour forecasts help shape the international interior and exterior coatings and finishes markets

New face on the market
07 July, 2012
Face Laminated Components (FLC) may have been launched in the UK only recently, but they have attracted considerable interest, according to distributor International Timber.

Green is the colour
17 April, 2010
Consolidation and a focus on more environmentally-friendly, low VOC products are the predominant stories in the coatings sector

Akzo creates stand-alone wood finishes business
11 September, 2009

Quality counts
06 December, 2008
Dr Steve Snaith, marketing director at ICI Paints, discusses the advantages of sourcing coating products from specialist merchant stockists rather than DIY chains

Finishing touch
06 December, 2008
Coatings and finishes manufacturers have had another year of talking points

Akzo Nobel revenues up
01 November, 2008

Cedar saviour
27 September, 2008
It’s been a challenging year for British Columbia’s softwood industry, but western red cedar is a light in the market gloom

Management team buys Crown
23 August, 2008

Surface appeal
24 November, 2007
Coatings manufacturers have been busy as they bid to improve the performance of wood in a variety of applications

Akzo’s ICI takeover receives shareholder approval
12 November, 2007

Coatings manufacturers welcome skills initiative
07 July, 2007
Timber coatings manufacturers have given their backing to a skills initiative aimed at improving the basic knowledge of employees throughout the UK’s businesses.

Accoya off the blocks
23 June, 2007
Commercial production of the modified wood Accoya has officially started

Under new management
20 January, 2007
It's all change at the IWSc with new premises, a new director, a new president and a new alliance

Better for life
09 December, 2006
Life cycle analysis shows the environmental benefits of coated timber over PVCu windows. Sikkens business development manager Geoff Taylor reports

Facts on friction
09 December, 2006
TRADA flooring specialist Peter Kaczmar explains a new test method for floor seals that will resolve a marketing dilemma for manufacturers

Winning formulas
09 December, 2006
The coatings and finishes sector is becoming increasingly hi-tech