Coatings World - June 2017

“We saw this trend and strived to avoid a situation where prices on our products should be affected. But when the costs of key components continue to increase significantly over time, it leaves us with no other option but to raise the prices on our affected products,” said Geir Boe, group executive vice president in Jotun Performance Coatings.

AkzoNobel Safety
E-Learning Program
Unveiled

AkzoNobel’s innovative organic peroxide e-learning safety training module is now available in 10 languages with added functionality to allow distribution partners to enroll their customers in the system. The program will be unveiled at the upcoming JEC World 2017 Conference in Paris on March 14. It provides customers, distributors and industry partners with essential background information and safe handling guidelines for the company’s organic peroxide products.

By allowing our distribution partners to enroll their customers in the program, we are extending our role as a global leader in safety by working to ensure that our products are safely handled throughout the entire distribution channel.

Due to high interest in the e-learning program among AkzoNobel’s distribution partners and customers, the training is now available in 10 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.

Safety is a core principle for AkzoNobel. Our company is an industry leader in innovation and this program demonstrates how sharing our knowledge on the safe handling of our products benefits all of our stakeholders throughout the entire polymer supply chain.

AkzoNobel supplies and distributes some of the best known organic peroxide products in the world, such as, Butanox, Cadox, Perkadox and Triganox. These are essential ingredients for the entire polymer industry.

dmg events Acquires
Coatings For Africa

dmg events – Middle East, Asia & Africa
has acquired Coatings for Africa, the
largest and longest-running event for its
industry on the continent. Coatings for
Africa will now be organized by dmg
events, starting with the next edition in
Johannesburg from May 29-31, 2018.
The new acquisition will sit within the
company’s growing Coatings portfolio,
which includes the Middle East Coatings
Show, taking place in Dubai on March
13-15. The biennial Coatings for Africa
event will retain the South African Paint
Manufacturers Association (SAPMA)
and the Oil and Colour Chemists
Association (OCCA) as partners, with
both associations pledging their long-
term support.
SAPMA members make more than 90
per cent of all coatings manufactured in
South Africa, while many of the individ-
ual chemists and technologists who visit
the event are OCCA members. Africa rep-
resents 28 per cent of the world’s coating
production by volume, and South Africa
is the continent’s largest producer.
“Africa is one of the most
exciting and rapidly developing
continents on earth,” said Ian
Faux, VP – Coatings. “As well as
supporting the local markets, we are con-
fident that our international client base,
familiar with our events in Asia and the
Middle East, will be keen to move with
us into this new territory and take advan-
tage of the fabulous opportunities avail-
able here.”
The event will see senior managers
and technologists from across the paints
and coatings industry come looking for
a mix of the latest products, technolo-
gies and services. At the same time, they
will be able to take part in a developing
education programme, which will include
a three-day conference, plus interactive
zones for workshops and live product
demonstrations.

Deryck Spence, speaking on behalf of SAPMA and OCCA, said: “Both of our associations are extremely excited

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