AkzoNobelA major investment project has been completed at AkzoNobel’s production plant in Bac Ninh province near Hanoi, Vietnam.
Five new powder coating lines have been added at the multi-site, along with a line for producing water-based products for the consumer electronics market (IT, wireless and home appliances). The total investment amounts to €18.5 million.
Increasing capacity at the site will enable us to focus on supporting volume growth in the northern part of the country, while our Dong Nai facility covers the southern part of Vietnam.
“The cutting-edge powder coating lines we’ve installed will help us to grow with our customers, serve them faster and pave the way for a more sustainable future,” explains Jeff Jirak, managing director of AkzoNobel’s Powder Coatings business. “Increasing capacity at the site will enable us to focus on supporting volume growth in the northern part of the country, while our Dong Nai facility covers the southern part of Vietnam. It means we can now focus on streamlining our manufacturing processes to meet the diverse needs of the Vietnam market.”
The work has included building a fully automated warehouse for the company’s consumer electronics activities, along with installing advanced equipment and technology to deliver higher productivity rates and efficiency gains. According to AkzoNobel, the investment will contribute to the paint and coating manuifacturer’s ambition to halve its own carbon emissions globally by 2030. The installation of a new line for water-based consumer electronics products is also eexpected to help lower emissions across the value chain.
“We can now offer the latest water-based technology to our Vietnam-based multinational customers, including key Asian consumer electronic brands,” says Maximilien Schréder, global director of AkzoNobel’s Consumer Electronics business. “This represents another important step forward in terms of helping to reduce the overall carbon footprint of our customers.”
The addition of the new production lines in Bac Ninh is the latest in a series of investments by the company in the South Asia region, following recent expansions of manufacturing volumes in Pakistan, Thailand and Australia.
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