Hempel’s strict global Health, Safety &
Environment policies and all Russian
regulations. The plant also features a recycling of process liquids, soil pollution
prevention, and firewater collection.
The factory completion ceremony
took place on December 1, 2015, and
scaled-up production is scheduled to begin in early 2016.
The Ulyanovsk is Hempel’s 28th factory worldwide, the first in Russia, and is
situated on seven hectares of land. Once
running, it is capable to produce 16 million liters per year.
The factory has been built to the highest standards and features the latest state
of the art technology in productivity (e.g.
automatic dosing system, high speed filling and robotic palletizing) and in EHS
(e.g. recycling of process liquids, process
ventilation air cleaning, and soil pollution
prevention as well as firewater collection). The factory will use locally sourced
Russian raw materials where these meet
Hempel’s high quality standards.
The construction of the factory was
carried out by local Ulyanovsk firm,
UTS, for the buildings, while Netzsch
has delivered key production equipment
of which a significant part is produced
locally in Russia.
The factory will produce Hempel’s
global range of coatings, including anti-corrosive protective coatings for marine
vessels, steel infrastructure, bridges, power stations, refineries, chemical plants,
offshore and onshore oil and gas facilities, pipelines and transportation infrastructure as well as many new products
developed specifically for Russia’s unique
climatic and market conditions.
In this region, Hempel is present in Moscow
(Head Office) St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg,
Murmansk, Astrakhan, Rostov-on,
Vladivostok, Rybinsk, Krasnoyarsk, and now
Ulyanovsk in Russia, Kiev and Odessa in
Ukraine, Baku in Azerbaijan, and Atyrau and
Aktau in Kazakhstan.
Medical Ship Receives Aid
from AkzoNobel
A volunteer hospital ship which provides
care for thousands of patients living in
remote areas of Papua New Guinea has
been refurbished with a coatings system
donated by AkzoNobel.
The company’s Marine Coatings
business supplied its high performance
Intersleek hull coating to volunteer group
Youth With a Mission (YWAM), who op-
erate the ship. As well as providing essen-
tial protection, the system also offers the
added benefit of helping to reduce fuel
consumption and emissions by an aver-
age of 9 percent.
“The coating that AkzoNobel so gen-
erously donated has resulted in massive
savings in fuel, money and time,” said
Jeremy Schierer, Captain of the YWAM
ship. “Before the refit, we used on average
6,000 liters of fuel per day. It has since
dropped to around 4,800 liters, resulting
in a daily saving of around $1,500. This
means that we are now able to allocate
more funds to frontline services.”
During the past three months, the
ship and its 196 volunteers have pro-
vided medical and training services to
more than 12,000 patients in Papua New
Guinea, across 81 villages.
“Given the massive impact the
ship and its volunteers have had
on so many people, we are de-
lighted that we could play a role in mak-
ing it happen,” added Leon Kyle, Regional
Manager for AkzoNobel’s Marine
Coatings business. “It’s an illustration of
how, when businesses, NGOs and volun-
teers work together, we can truly make a
difference to those most in need.
“Sustainability is central to our strat-
egy and we want to integrate it into the
heart of everything we do. The medical
ship, with its new coating, can now reach
far-flung communities faster, while saving
fuel and emitting less carbon dioxide and
air pollutants into the environment.”
The YWAM ship is currently undergoing renovations, including the construction of a new dentistry clinic and day
surgery unit. It is due to set sail for its
next deployment to Papua New Guinea
in early February 2016. CW
