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AkzoNobel Has Joined a Major Dutch Innovation Programme to Solve Societal Challenges AkzoNobel will take part in a joint project to improve the durability, functionality and recyclability of coatings, thin films and inks.
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he international paints and coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel
Research Council (NWO). AkzoNobel will be collaborating with Canon,
has recently announced that it has joined other eighty-one
Evonik, GFB, PTG and RUG Ventures, who together possess extensive
companies, businesses and social organisations in the major
knowledge of market demands, supply chains and production
Dutch research programme ‘Perspectief’, focused on developing new
processes. All the SusInkCoat partners will also work with academic
technologies that will help solve some societal challenges. The company
researchers at several Dutch universities in an effort to identify
will cooperate together with private partners and other societal
promising developments that can be commercialised, used for
stakeholders in the government-funded SusInkCoat project in order
education purposes or for outreach to the public.
to develop new materials, processes and applications to improve the
“The programme, one of many R&D projects we are involved with, will
durability, functionality and recyclability of coatings, thin films and inks.
also support our ambition to achieve 50% less carbon emissions in our
“Our discussions about collaborating with our SusInkCoat partners have
own operations and across the value chain by 2030. We want to make
been very positive. We are all facing the same societal challenges – how
the recyclability of materials – such as furniture, building materials
to become more circular – and we are looking for the same solutions
and steel constructions – easier by introducing functionalities like
in different application areas. But we have never done that together
self-healing, higher durability and triggered release The more you can
for this specific research topic, so we need an ecosystem to help us
leave the materials in their original state, the more sustainably you can
solve these challenges,” has stated André van Linden, the director for
operate,” has concluded van Linden.
research and development of AkzoNobel and co-lead of SusInkCoat. The programme, which will run for the next five years, is backed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and the Dutch
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