AkzoNobel plans further investment in China

March 19, 2013

AkzoNobel has announced its intention to invest a further €65 million in China. The investment will be used to boost capacity and significantly improve operational excellence at AkzoNobel’s Surface Chemistry manufacturing sites in Boxing and Ningbo.

AkzoNobel announces management changes

January 23, 2013

AkzoNobel today announced that Graeme Armstrong will become Managing Director Surface Chemistry and Country Director for North America. Armstrong is currently Executive Committee member responsible for Research, Development, and Innovation (RD&I). He succeeds Bob Margevich, who has chosen to go into retirement.

Indoor parking at Sweden’s new national arena paved using Rediset®LQ

December 3, 2012

PEAB, the builder and one of the owners of the new national arena in Stockholm, Sweden selected AkzoNobel’s Rediset LQ-1102CE product when paving the multi story parking garage. Rediset LQ-1102CE is especially suitable for this kind of paving since it improves mix workability during manual handling and reduces fumes and emissions. Two important factors for semi indoor paving.

AkzoNobel at the Argentine congress on road administration and traffic

December 3, 2012

The 16th Argentine congress on road administration and traffic took place from the 22 to 26 of October in Cordoba, Argentina, and coincided with the XXXVII Reunión de Asfalto, the Seminario Internacional de Pavimentos de Hormigón and the Seminario de Mezclas Asfálticas en Caliente del Siglo XXI.

Case study on use of Rediset LQ-1106

October 29, 2012

Better Roads Magazine featured in its August issue a case study on a 4.7-mile stretch of County Road F in Wisconsin, USA partly paved with warm mix and partly with hot mix using AkzoNobels warm-mix product Rediset LQ-1106. The contractor Northeast Asphalt released an official report of the results on the project and reported several advantages for warm mix using the AkzoNobel Rediset additive including average burner fuel savings of 10 to 12 percent, compaction possible at lower temperatures and a potential to extend haul distances beyond what is possible with hot mix.

AkzoNobel tops global sustainability ranking

September 13, 2012

AkzoNobel has cemented its position as a global sustainability leader after being ranked in first place in the Chemicals supersector on the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes (DJSI).

5th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress in Istanbul, Turkey

June 25, 2012

The 5th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress took place in June in Istanbul, Turkey. The theme was Asphalt, the sustainable road to success.

International fair of road construction in Kielce, Poland

June 5, 2012

Representatives from our European Asphalt Application team within Surface Chemistry and our local representative Polochem exhibited at the 18th International Fair of Road Construction Industry AUTOSTRADA-POLSKA which was held during 8th to 11th of May in Kielce Poland.

AkzoNobel’s versatile Rediset® LQ liquid WMA additive continues to gain approval across North America

May 23, 2012

The number of U.S. states and Canadian provinces allowing the use of Rediset® LQ liquid asphalt additive from AkzoNobel as a warm-mix asphalt (WMA) additive, a liquid anti-stripping agent or both continues to grow.

AkzoNobel asphalt emulsion school 2012

May 7, 2012

The number of U.S. states and Canadian provinces allowing the use of Rediset LQ liquid asphalt additive from AkzoNobel as a warm-mix asphalt additive, a liquid anti-stripping agent or both continues to grow.

AkzoNobel’s innovative warm-mix technology helps ‘pave the way’ to modernizing Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport

February 9, 2012

AkzoNobel Surface Chemistry has provided its new Rediset® LQ liquid asphalt warm-mix additive to help pave new taxiways at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The taxiways are an integral part of the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP), one of the largest infrastructure rehabilitation and construction projects in the United States at one of the world’s largest and busiest airports. Five new taxiways are being paved with multiple layers of warm-mix asphalt containing AkzoNobel’s Rediset LQ additive.

AkzoNobel completes acquisition of Chinese surfactants producer

January 10, 2012

AkzoNobel announced today it has completed its acquisition of China’s leading specialty surfactant producer, Boxing Oleochemicals, which will be integrated into AkzoNobel’s Surface Chemistry business unit. This acquisition quickly positions AkzoNobel to respond to the increasing demand for amines and derivatives, with a third of the Asian demand coming from China alone. The integration of Boxing’s activities and further synergies with AkzoNobel will definitely boost the introduction of new products to local mid-tier markets and ultimately the progress of local customer.