AkzoNobel Completes Sale of
Building Adhesives Business to Sika AG
AkzoNobel has finalized the €260 million
divestment of its Building Adhesives business to Sika AG. The deal was announced
on August 8, 2013.
Under the terms of the deal, all of
Building Adhesives’ approximately 550
employees have transferred to the new
owners, along with the business’ two
manufacturing facilities in Rosendahl
(Germany) and Damville (France) and its
products and brands.
The sale of Building Adhesives
is in line with the strategic review of
the business’ fit within AkzoNobel’s
portfolio, whereby the focus of the
Decorative Paints business is on the
strong strategic paints positions the
company has in Europe and the growth
markets of Asia and South America.
BASF Receives the Pierre
Potier Award in France
BASF was awarded the Pierre Potier
prize 2013 within the “Innovative
Processes” category for its automo-
tive paint application process called
Integrated Process II (IP II). This pro-
cess for waterborne paint application to
car bodies is characterized by its par-
ticularly efficient and ecological pro-
cedure. The prize rewards innovations
in the field of chemicals and promotes
sustainable development. It was cre-
ated eight years ago at the instigation
of the French Federation for Chemical
Sciences (FFC) and French Chemical
Industries Union (UIC) and placed un-
der the supervision of France’s Minister
for Economic Regeneration.
The innovation of the IP II consists
in eliminating the second paint layer,
the primer coat and its baking phase. In
their place, two thinner coats are applied
directly to the cathodic e-coat without an
intermediate drying phase. The coating is
resistant to stone chipping and UV rays.
This approach has become established
at new automotive paint shops. “BASF
develops new processes which are more
economic in terms of energy consumption and quantity of raw materials. The
Integrated Process II allows reducing the
quantity of paint used. It also helps to
decrease the CO2 emissions and energy
consumption by up to 20 percent,” explained Yannick Pichot, BASF technical
manager basecoat color and formulation
in Clermont de l’Oise, France. CW
Index to Companies
This index gives the starting page for a department or feature with a significant reference to a manufacturer of paint, coatings, adhesives and sealants
Subsidiaries are indexed under their own names.
AkzoNobel.................................................................................8, 10, 40, 50, 77
APV Engineered Coatings ......................................................................... 30, 77
Axalta Coating Systems.................................................................. 10, 40, 46, 50
BASF ........................................................................ 8, 10, 25, 30, 40, 50, 77, 82
Bronz-Glow Technologies................................................................................ 10
Cal-West Specialty Coatings............................................................................ 25
Diamond Vogel ............................................................................................... 30
Dunn Edwards ................................................................................................ 30
Hardide........................................................................................................... 30
H.B. Fuller ...................................................................................................... 10
Hempel ........................................................................................................... 30
IFS Coatings.................................................................................................... 10
International Paint .......................................................................................... 10
Jotun ............................................................................................................... 10
Nippon Paint................................................................................................... 10
PPG...................................................................................................... 10, 40, 50
Qualified Coating Services............................................................................... 10
Sherwin-Williams ...................................................................................... 10, 30
Sikat.................................................................................................................. 8
Taiho Paint...................................................................................................... 48
Valspar ...................................................................................................... 10, 30
(From left:) Olivier Homolle, president of BASF
France, and Yannick Pichot from BASF Coatings
in Clermont de l’Oise, France, received the Pierre
Potier Award on behalf. It was handed over by
France’s Minister for Economic Regeneration, Arn-aud Montebourg, and Yves Chauvin, winner of the
Nobel Prize in chemistry 2005. BASF was awarded
for its innovative paint application for car bodies
“Integrated Process II”.
