CEO Ton Büchner Returns to AkzoNobel
The Supervisory Board of AkzoNobel
has announced that CEO Ton Büchner
will resume his duties, following a full
recovery.
“On behalf of the Supervisory Board
and the Executive Committee we welcome
Ton coming back to the office. It has obviously been a testing time for all of us
but now Ton is back as expected, leading
the company forward and returning to
business as usual,” said Karel Vuursteen,
Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Commented CEO Ton Büchner: “I am
thrilled to return to my post. I am grateful to my team who have taken care of
the company so well during my absence.
There is a great future for AkzoNobel
and we are looking forward to updating
you on our plans to further improve the
company’s performance.”
Nova Board Members-Nova Paint Club
Nova Paint Club
Elects New President at
Conference in Germany
The Nova Paint Club has elected Michael
Dayan, CEO of Tambour, Israel’s leading
paint company, to be its new president, replacing Joao Serrenho of CIN Group. The
Nova Paint Club, which has ten member
companies operating in 80 countries, recently met in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The
event was hosted by Wolfram Votteler,
Rainer Votteler and Dietmar Votteler, joint
managing directors of German member
Votteler Lackfabrik GmbH & Co. KG.
The meeting in Germany gave members the opportunity to visit Votteler
Lackfabrik’s modern technical center, including the research laboratories
and extensive testing facilities. Votteler
Lackfabrik is a family-owned business
specializing in the development, manufacture and marketing of coatings for wood,
wooden materials and plastics. It has
wholly-owned subsidiaries in Switzerland
and Austria.
During the Conference delegates re-
ceived reports from technical directors
highlighting successful cooperation on
India, (Asian Paints), Israel (Tambour
Ltd), Portugal (CIN SA), Spain (Barnices
Valentine S.A.), and the USA (Vogel Paint
Inc). These companies also have other op-
erations and/or subsidiaries, which extends
their total involvement to approximately
80 countries throughout the world.
issues such as cost savings, product development and environmental improvements. Attendees were also able to plan
significant future coordination on a wide
range of emerging technologies.
The meeting also heard a keynote
presentation from Professor Dr. Ewald
Wessling, global expert on digital change.
Wessling spoke on how technology
change has become the biggest external
challenge for CEOs. He stressed that
companies must embrace the new era of
collaboration as networks like Wikipedia
and social media extend into the corporate world.
The next board meeting of the Nova
Paint Club will be hosted by Pintuco in
April 2013 in Bogota, Colombia, and will
be held alongside a meeting of Nova’s
marketing directors.
The Nova Paint Club is an interna-
tional organization founded in 1983 to
provide a framework for leading global
independent paint companies to benefit
from exchanges of technical information,
technology and expertise in all areas of
their operations.
The Nova Paint Club currently has 10
core members with their main operations
based in Argentina (Sinteplast SA), Canada
(Cloverdale Paint Inc), Colombia (Pintuco),
Germany (Votteler Lackfabrik GmbH &
Co), Greece, (Druckfarben Hellas SA),
PPG Appoints Thiele
Treasurer, Announces Giga to
Retire
PPG Industries has appointed Eric K.
Thiele, PPG assistant treasurer and credit
director, as treasurer and a company officer. He will report to David B. Navikas,
PPG senior vice president, finance and
chief financial officer, and he will continue to be based at the company’s global
headquarters in Pittsburgh.
Thiele succeeds PPG vice president
and treasurer Aziz Giga, who has announced his retirement, effective March
1, 2013. Giga will continue to support the
company as corporate vice president during the transition period. Thiele joined
PPG in 1995 and advanced through positions of increasing responsibility, such as
director, financial services, aircraft transparencies; director, financial reporting,
coatings businesses; director, finance and
planning, automotive coatings; and director, finance, and chief financial officer,
PPG Asia Pacific. CW
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