Over 150 senior decision makers from the UK's paints, coatings and printing ink sectors gathered in Birmingham for the annual British Coatings Federation (BCF) Annual Conference.
PPG recently announced that it has committed to setting near-term company-wide emission reductions in line with climate science through the Science Based Target initiative.
A boundary-pushing approach to hacking carbon reduction challenges has been established by AkzoNobel and partners from across the extended value chain following the company’s first-ever global Collaborative Sustainability Challenge.
The Ohio Chemistry Technology Council (OCTC) has recognized PPG’s Huron, Barberton, Euclid, Cleveland and Strongsville facilities in the state for programs that are advancing sustainability, health and safety.
Finland-based paint and coatings manufacturer Teknos reported that despite a challenging 2021, the company was able to grow its net sales by more than 9%.
As of May 2022, decorative paint manufacturers in the U.K. will be able to adopt the use of the statement “TRACE” VOC as part of the British Coatings Federation’s VOC Globe scheme to improve communication about products that have the lowest levels of VOCs.
Teknos has been granted the EcoVadis gold medal for its sustainability performance in 2021, placing the company within the top 5% of the 90,000 companies rated by EcoVadis.
