The Cooled Conservatories of Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, Southeast Asia. Rising to almost 60 meters, the Cooled Conservatories won the prestigious prize of World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in 2012. AkzoNobel products: Interzinc®, Intergard® and Interthane® protective coatings Want to do more for less? Let’s put our heads together for a sustainable future When we work together, the possibilities for sustaining profit - and at the same time sustaining our environment - become limitless. That is what AkzoNobel’s ‘Planet Possible’ initiative is all about. Sustainability and profitability Achieving more for your bodyshop business, while reducing your consumption of energy, materials and time, is something you aim to do every day. If you are also thinking about how you can maintain the resulting competitive advantages well into the future, you are on much the same wavelength as those whose focus is on the earth’s welfare. Environmental sustainability might sometimes sound like a huge issue that individuals and even companies are relatively powerless to influence. We are here to tell you that you are already making a difference, step by step, and that through your commitment to improvement, your willingness to work in partnership and your contribution of ideas, you can become a key player in the sustainability revolution that will safeguard your business and the world in which we live. Innovation answers every challenge It is easy for any business to say it cares about sustainability, but these days our - and your - customers increasingly expect to see evidence of such efforts. AkzoNobel’s leadership in sustainability is proved by our consistent high ranking in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, our award-winning technologies and our constant innovation in the development of sustainable products speak for themselves. Low-VOC paints have helped reduce pollution, while increased protection and durability derived from our coatings have cut the material and energy demands of maintenance. Outside the vehicle refinishing business, our many sustainable contributions have included solar and light reflective coatings for buildings, biocide-free fouling treatments for ships and lower-temperature asphalt additives, all of which have for example energy-saving as one of many benefits. Our advances in the vehicle refinish market save time, energy and materials in repair work, through faster, more efficient technologies and through avoidance of wasteful re-working. Our game-changing basecoat system and innovative bodyfillers, primers and clearcoats are good examples. Our use of UV curing technology helps in all those ways and has particularly addressed the issue of 36 Sikkens - Sustainability Pagina 35

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