AkzoNobel Advances Manufacturing and R&D in North America
AkzoNobel recently announced its opening of a new best-in-class R&D center in High Point, North Carolina. The new center will consolidate solvent-based and water-based product research to drive leading innovations for the wood coatings industry in North America.
The company’s community of North America R&D centers supporting the performance coatings businesses includes four other laboratories in Troy, Michigan, Strongsville, Ohio, Houston, Texas, Flying Hills, Pennsylvania and Lancaster, South Carolina.
AkzoNobel’s new pilot plant in Huron, Ohio and new R&D Center in High Point, North Carolina are investements in advanced technologies to deliver innovated solutions to customers.
AkzoNobel’s R&D centers are shaping the future through advanced technologies and delivering innovated solutions to customers.
“We are capitalizing on data analytics to transform our manufacturing processes and enabling the flow of information from the laboratory to the factory floor to our customers, generating agility to changes in the marketplace and meeting customer needs,” said John Griffin, North America
Regional Director. “The new R&D Center serves our Wood Coatings business and brings together teams of researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to create new solutions for our customers and immediately send it to the manufacturing production plant.”