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(All photographs in this article reproduced by kind permission of the Rochester Bridge Trust) With a history including engineering giants Thomas Telford, John Rennie and Sir William Cubitt, and records dating back to Roman times, Rochester Bridge spans the centuries...

Europe will soon have a new tallest building – and it’s being protected from the ravages of the Warsaw weather by a high class powder coatings system supplied by AkzoNobel. Standing 310 meters tall, the Varso Tower – developed by international workspace provider HB...

Manchester based HMG Paints Ltd take home the prestigious Manchester Evening News (M.E.N), Business of the Year Award in the £10m - £25m turnover category at this years’ M.E.N Business Awards ceremony. With an attendance of over 350 guests at the awards ceremony, held...

Superyacht builders and applicators can now benefit from revolutionary spray filler technology developed by AkzoNobel, which is all set to make waves in the industry. Part of the company’s Awlgrip range, Awlfair SF is a high-performance filler which can be applied by...

A milestone groundbreaking ceremony has taken place at AkzoNobel’s North American Wood Coatings facility in High Point, North Carolina, to officially kickstart a €50 million investment, which will transform the site’s manufacturing capability. Announced in April, the...

Brian Falder 1931-2019 Brian Falder, who died on the 19 of September this year, was a man whose entire lifetime of 88 years was interwoven inextricably with the paint industry. An industry that he loved, and one where his company HMG Paints did and continues to do...

SteriTouch have been working alongside Thermaset Ltd for over a year, developing innovative coatings such as a nylon-modified antimicrobial powder coat for improved durability in hospital trollies, where infection prevention is key. This type of powder coat is...

Akzo Nobel has completed the acquisition of French aerospace coatings manufacturer Mapaero, which was first announced in July. The deal will strengthen AkzoNobel’s global position in aerospace coatings, notably in the structural and cabin coating sub-segments....

Axalta has released its 67th annual Global Automotive Color Popularity Report, which reveals the top three automotive colours as: white (38%), black (19%), and grey (13%). White has been the top automotive colour worldwide since 2011. This year, silver dropped out of...

David John Beamish (1955 - 2019) David Beamish, President of DeFelsko Corporation died peacefully at home on November 4, 2019. He died with his family by his side at the age of 63 after a 32-month battle with cancer. Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, David studied...

Elcometer Ltd, a leading manufacturer of high quality inspection and blasting equipment, has appointed Paul King as their new Research and Development Director. Paul joins Elcometer with over 17 years of leadership experience at global companies, which included...

Applied Graphene Materials, the producer of specialty graphene materials, is delighted to note that Graphene primer is now on sale at Halfords, the UK's leading retailer of motoring, cycling and leisure products and services, with 465+ retail stores, under Halfords'...

Dubai’s Museum of the Future and Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium opt for Sherwin-Williams protection The iconic Museum of the Future in Dubai chose Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings to provide a fire protection coating solution for its breathtaking...

A new project to help rid the seas of plastic waste has been launched by The Ocean Cleanup, with AkzoNobel providing coatings technology for the garbage-gathering system. The latest venture is focused on the Interceptor™, a floating device which can extract...

Global coatings supplier Hempel announced on 24 October that it has joined the Getting to Zero Coalition, a multi-stakeholder group that aims to see the introduction of commercially viable zero emission shipping vessels by 2030. In 2018, the International Maritime...