BRAND-NEW
AkzoNobel Opens New State-of-the-Art Colour Lab AkzoNobel has invested in a brand-new state-of-the-art colour lab for its Salcomix liquid coatings.
Salcomix is AkzoNobel’s brand for a modularly
colour formulation.
Fabrizio Mattusi, Sales Manager Industrial
designed industrial coatings system that can be
In addition, three digital tools for the industrial
Coatings, Italy. “We are growing our business
used to provide paints for a variety of small-
market will offer customers easy colour matching
so we can support our customers in growing
industry applications, quickly and flexibly. This is
and retrieval:
theirs.”
possible thanks to a mixing system that offers
- Salcomix PaintFinder Cloud provides
In addition, the centre will also serve
superior colour accuracy with maximum product
remote access to more than 600,000 colour
other AkzoNobel brands, including Relest.
diversity.
formulations. Rooted in an existing
AkzoNobel’s Como site is also a major Interpon
The investment highlights the firm’s commitment
web-based solution also used by other
Powder Coatings plant and hosts facilities for
to growing its General Industry liquid business
AkzoNobel businesses, it is accessible
the company’s Vehicle Refinishes business.
and to deepen its relationship with European
anywhere, enabling colour formulations to be
customers.
uploaded quickly and accessed immediately
For further information:
without local installation of software.
www.salcomix.com
Based in Como, Italy, the new lab will service
- Automatchic Vision is a premium
in other European countries. It will be fully
hand-held device offering the highest standards
operational from February 2020.
in supremely accurate colour matching. It’s
The availability of highly skilled resources in
particularly suited to creating special colours for
Como was a contributing factor in the decision to
designer furniture, vases, lamps, architectural
locate the colour lab there. One of the appointed
facades and any application that requires high
colourists boasts more than 25 years of
design standards. - ColorFinder, a small, hand-held device which
All staff have been additionally trained in the
scans colours wirelessly via Bluetooth and pairs
central colour lab in Germany, ensuring excellent
with an iOS or Android device, enabling users to
quality and efficiency.
instantly search for the right colour match. “We have invested heavily in cutting-edge
quality control, continuous process control and
equipment and upskilling our employees,” says
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The centre will use cutting-edge technology for
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experience with metallic and pearlescent colours.
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Italian customers as well as customers based
The Salcomix systems can be used to provide paints quickly and flexibly for a variety of small-industry applications.
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Automatchic Vision is a premium hand-held device offering the highest standards in supremely accurate colour matching.
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ColorFinder is a small, hand-held device which scans colours wirelessly via Bluetooth and pairs with an iOS or Android device.