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PO Box 1
Bentcliffe Way
Eccles
M30 0BH
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[t] +44 (0) 161 785 1111
[f] +44 (0) 161 161 788 7886
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Akcros Chemicals, a business unit of Akzo Nobel, is one of the world leaders in the field of additives for the processing and manufacturing of plastics as well as Polysulphide Chemicals for the aerospace, marine and construction industries. Annual sales amount to approximately EUR 200 million. With headquarters located in Eccles, UK, Akcros employs around 900 people. The company has manufacturing sites in the UK, Germany and the USA and sells its products world-wide.Akcros Chemicals is actively committed to the ongoing development of new products that bring added value to their customers. The company’s biocides are based on the active ingredients Oxybisphenoxarsine (OBPA), Zinc Pyrithione (ZnP) and Iodo Propynl Butyl Carbamate (IPBC). These active ingredients are supplied in liquid, powder and solid form so that customers have a broad range of formulating options depending on their particular end use requirements. To help customers to select the appropriate active ingredient and the levels for their particular formulations, Akcros has state-of-the-art microbiology laboratories in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) and Düren, Germany. Akcros Chemicals welcomes the opportunity to work with anyone interested in superior biocidal protection. Akcros Chemicals’ quality, technical support and customer service are the best in the industry. Working closely with their customers, Akcros are dedicated to their total satisfaction. Call Akcros today (732-220-6882 USA, 44 161 785 1111 UK) to ensure full ‘SANIPROOFED by INTERCIDE’ biocidal protection. Akzo Nobel, based in the Netherlands, serves customers throughout the world with healthcare products, coatings and chemicals. Consolidated sales for 2000 totaled EUR 14 billion (USD 13 billion, GBP 8.5 billion). The Company currently employs 67,400 people in 80 countries. |
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Production has started on schedule at Eka Bahia in Brazil, the plant operated by Akzo Nobel's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, which is producing chemicals for the Veracel pulp mill. |
24 August 2005 |
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Eka Chemicals and Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH, Hamburg, have announced that NRC has taken over all of the shares in the company Kemi-Intressen AB, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eka, effective as of August 1, 2005. |
03 August 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel Chemicals in the United States has won a major supplier award for the fifth year in a row. |
16 June 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel's Chemicals business in the United States has won an award for its safe handling of hazardous chemicals. |
10 June 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel's salt plant in Hengelo, the Netherlands, has become the biggest vacuum salt factory in the world following the official opening of a new extension. |
30 May 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel's Chelates and Micronutrients business has signed a global marketing agreement with Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara International ASA. |
30 May 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel's Eka Chemicals business in the United States has won a safe transportation award for the ninth year in a row. |
12 April 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel's Cross-linking Peroxides plant in Ningbo, China, has been presented with an environmental award. |
30 March 2005 |
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Employees at Eka Chemicals' Mo i Rana site in Norway have been presented with an award in recognition of their successful safety work. |
03 March 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel's Base Chemicals business has successfully launched the first phase of a pilot hydrogen power plant with project partner NedStack. |
21 January 2005 |
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Akzo Nobel's Salt plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, set a new production record during 2004. |
14 January 2005 |
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Two joint venture operations involving Akzo Nobel's Energy business recently passed important safety milestones. |
15 December 2004 |
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Four of Akzo Nobel's sites in the Netherlands opened their doors over the weekend as part of a national Chemical Open Day event. |
25 October 2004 |
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The construction of Akzo Nobel's new chlorine and monochloroacetic acid plants has started in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. |
20 October 2004 |
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Sceneography student Pepijn Rozing had a dilemma. He was designing a theater production based on Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman and wanted to symbolize the sea in an unconventional but eye-catching way. |
13 October 2004 |
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Eka Chemicals has reached an agreement with Smurfit Munksjö to take over chlorine dioxide production at its Aspa Bruk site in Sweden. |
29 September 2004 |
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A methanol manufacturing business, which is operated as a three-way joint venture including Akzo Nobel, has reached a 20 million ton production milestone. |
03 September 2004 |
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Eka Chemicals has signed exclusive agreements with Ecochlor Inc to develop and market systems to treat ballast water, based on proven chlorine dioxide technology. |
02 September 2004 |
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Every week, Akzo Nobel ships thousands of tons of salt from its plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, to Rotterdam. Luc Smeets climbed on board the Quo Vadis to experience life on deck during one of the regular sailings. |
21 May 2003 |
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Following the announcement in August of this year, regarding its intention to discontinue its lead stabilizers and related rigid plastic applications business, Akzo Nobel’s business unit Plastics and Processing Additives, which trades as Akcros Chemicals, has signed an agreement for a Management Buy-Out (MBO) by a team of key personnel on December 3, 2001. |
07 December 2001 |
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Long established in medical and food related applications, significant improvements in performance of the INTERLITE range now make them suitable for more demanding technical applications in plasticised PVC. |
03 December 2001 |
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Akcros Chemicals America expands its broad range of biocides for the worldwide plastics industry. |
25 October 2001 |
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Vulcabond MD is the latest addition to Akcros Chemicals' Vulcabond range of bonding agents which improve the adhesion of PVC plastisols to polyester, nylon and other synthetic fabrics. |
25 October 2001 |
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Akzo Nobel Business Unit Plastics and Processing Additives (which trades as Akcros Chemicals) announces plans for restructuring its PVC additives for rigid applications business. |
30 July 2001 |
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Akcros Chemicals America recently made a range of new INTERSTAB heat stabilizers designed for very specific flexible PVC applications more generally available to the industry as a whole. |
10 July 2001 |
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Akcros Chemicals’ ongoing research and development has resulted in the market introduction of two new low cost, one-pack stabiliser systems. |
01 June 2001 |
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