Akzo Nobel is a Global Fortune 500 company and is listed on both the Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ stock exchanges. It is also listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and the FTSE4Good Index.
Based in the Netherlands, we are a multicultural organisation serving customers throughout the world with human and animal healthcare products, coatings, and chemicals. We employ around 61,500 people and conduct our activities in four segments - human and animal health, coatings and chemicals - subdivided into 13 business units, with operating subsidiaries in more than 80 countries.
Consolidated revenues for 2005 totaled EUR 13.0 billion.
Akzo Nobel is the world's largest Coatings manufacturer, with activities including:
The industrial coatings activities of Akzo Nobel are organized into three global Business Units (BU's) - Industrial Coatings, Powder Coatings and Industrial Finishes. Indutrial Coatings includes General Industrial Coatings, Plastics Coatings and Aerospace Coatings. Industrial Finishes includes Coil Coatings and Wood Coatings. Powder Coatings was declared a stand-alone BU on July 1st 2001.
Throughout our coatings and finishes businesses we aim to serve our customers on a global basis with distinctive products and services based on innovative technologies which meet their needs and which in turn bring benefits to their products and processes.
Key Dates in History of Akzo Nobel and Powder Coatings :
1777; Sadolin in Denmark founded.
1792; Sikkens (Netherlands) & Bemberg (Germany) established
1929; Vereinigte Glanzstoff and Enka amalgamated to form AKU
1967; Koninklijke Zout Organon formed from a series of mergers
1969; Koninklijke Zout Organon and AKU merge to form Akzo
1984; Nobel Industries forms through a merger of KemaNobel and Bofors
1982; Akzo starts to manufacture powder coatings
1988; Akzo buys powder business from DSM
(including plants in France, Italy and Germany) in swap deal invloving
sale of the Akzo powder resins business to DSM
1990; Restructuring of Nobel Industries under Securum
1995; Powder plant built in Sweden
1996; Second JV formed in China - with powder plant in Hangzhou
1998; Akzo Nobel acquires Courtaulds, including its global Interpon business.