A Global Perspective
Akzo Nobel Coatings is one of the world’s largest suppliers of protective and decorative coatings – paints, finishes and stains for industrial, professional and do-it-yourself applications.  These areas represent 30% of Akzo Nobel’s North American sales.

In Europe the company’s coatings roots go back more than 200 years to the Netherlands where the first Sikkens wood finishes originated.

Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes in North America

The company’s North American roots can be traced back to the early 20th century.  Today, Akzo Nobel is a key player in the North American paint and coatings industry with particular strength in the industrial coatings and car refinishes markets.

The Car Refinishes business unit is is one of the world’s leading suppliers of paints and services for the car repair, commercial vehicles and automotive plastics markets. We sell coatings for car body refinishing, or recoating, to customers that include bodyshops, distributors, fleet owners, automotive suppliers and major bus and truck producers. Brands include Sikkens®, Lesonal®, Dynacoat®, Wanda®, and Autocoat® BT. Operating in more than 60 countries, Car Refinishes has specialists around the world who understand local markets and can serve local needs. Its state-of-the-art customer services, color and technology solutions include offering technical and logistical support and the delivery of training programs.

The unit’s mission statement “people best at enabling bodyshop profitability" has motivated AkzoNobel Car Refinishes to be an industry leader in environmentally friendly products as well as introducing industry firsts such as the Mixit computerized color mixing system, and Acoat selected, a business development program for bodyshops which provides a series of educational programs targeted at increasing the efficiency and productivity of collision repair centers.

Why are we unique?
Our technology solutions in paint and value-added services have been developed with the guidance and support of some of the most enlightened collision repair owners, managers, painters and technicians in the North American market.

In addition, and possibly most importantly, our employees take extra measures to ensure that they know the collision repair business. Many have worked in all areas of the industry with a large percentage actually having hands-on collision repair center experience.