Women’s Industry Network Accepts ‘WIN Technology Initiative Founders Sponsorship’ from AkzoNobel
The $12,500 donation will enable WIN to achieve one of its key strategic initiatives for 2016: moving the organization to a technology platform that can support all of its current and future needs.
AkzoNobel Releases MIXIT Color Web Application
Application provides a quick and easy way for body shops to find the color they want, using a search function that fits all possible keywords, in any language, and even includes suggestions.
Application Deadline Approaching for Ultimate Collision Education Makeover Grant
All high school and college collision school programs are encouraged to apply, and the winning schools will be announced during SEMA 2016.
AkzoNobel Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Acoat Selected Body Shop Network
AkzoNobel pioneered the idea of a premium body shop network in the 1970s when it established Acoat Selected as a business improvement program for customers of Sikkens.
Collision Repair Education Foundation, AkzoNobel Open Applications for Sustainability Challenge Grant
Schools are invited to submit proposals for applying continuous improvement and sustainability principles that improve the processes in the school’s body shop or improve the way the shop interacts and impacts the community.
AkzoNobel Confirms Offer to Acquire BASF’s Industrial Coatings Business
The business supplies products for a number of end uses, including coil, furniture foil and panel coatings, wind energy and general industry, and commercial transport.
AkzoNobel Vehicle Refinishes Reveals 2016 Distributor Council
The Distributor Council is a legacy activity of Vehicle Refinishes that spans its 30-year history in North America.
AkzoNobel Recognized Again for Sustainability Excellence
The recognition also includes a listing in the 2016 Sustainability Yearbook, which features the world’s most sustainable companies.
AkzoNobel Salutes Outstanding Students with Sustainability Challenge Grant
In its second year, the program awarded $50,000 in grant funding to selected high schools and colleges with collision repair programs to advance continuous improvement and sustainable business principles.
AkzoNobel Opens Registration for Acoat Selected Winter Conference
Attendees will participate in classes designed to stimulate thinking, enhance personal and professional growth, and promote practices intended to perpetuate sustainable business models.
AkzoNobel and Chinese Automaker Pioneer Powder Auto Body Coatings
As sustainability continues to gain increasing importance in China, AkzoNobel’s Interpon powder technology is being successfully used by leading Chinese automaker JAC Motors for coating SLX truck bodies at its site in Mengcheng, China.
AkzoNobel Unveils Automotive Color Trends Guide
As well as offering a glimpse at the design direction for cars, smartphones and tablet computers, the guide also includes the company’s color of the year for those markets, “My Gold.”