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Innovative color & design solutions

We don’t do dull and dreary. We believe in a more colorful world, full of energy and inspiration. Our aim is to help brighten up homes and communities by bringing color to people’s lives.

Our global team of renowned color styling experts combine their deep industry insight with influences from fashion, architecture, art, social media and popular culture to identify new trends and directions in color. We share these insights with our customers across the globe to help them make more confident color choices and create products that capture the mood of the moment.

  • State-of-the-art color matching technology
  • Exceptional color consistency
  • Timely delivery
  • Durable color performance and protection
  • In-depth application experience

Experts in colour

Our aim is to help brighten up homes and communities by bringing colour to people’s lives. We want to inspire our customers with translations of the latest colour trends into unique wood finishes that are easy to implement in their production processes.

Our global team of colour experts combine their industry experience with on-trend influences from fashion, architecture, art, and popular culture to identify new trends and directions in colour. By sharing these insights, we help you make more confident wood coating colour choices and create products that capture the imagination.

Unique, on-trend color creations

In our color labs, our color engineers identify new color trends and translate them into relevant color palettes​ to meet our customers’ expectations. Blending innovation, new color concepts and design movements, our color creations, formulation methods and support services create fit-for-purpose products that are unique to each customer and ensure lasting performance.

Global Aesthetic Center

ColourFutures™ – expert analysis of social, economic and design trends

 

Consumers and customers worldwide find inspiration in our annual global trend research. ColourFutures lays the foundation for Color of the Year and its supporting color palettes, and is at the very heart of the team’s work at the Global Aesthetic Center.

 

AkzoNobel Wood Coatings Color System

Our new color system provides you with a complete system: tinting machines for interior and exterior waterborne and solventborne wood coatings, software, spectrophotometer, mixer, and service. It is based on two series of colorants and different series of base paints. Our Wood Coatings Color System is specially designed to obtain the best flexibility of use and to fit your needs.

The quality

Our system is of a very high quality not least because of our quality control department checking every batch of the bases and colorants to guarantee a very high reproducibility of colors. Our laboratories closely cooperate to provide our customers with quick answers.

The consistency

With our complete color system, we achieve high color accuracy, low Delta E, and consistency from batch to batch. We make sure the color you have chosen is always the color you will get. This is how we establish confidence with our customers and create business opportunities in the market.

Any questions?

Our support team will be happy to help you! We want to provide our customers with nothing but the best – therefore, we also offer support on any question relating to our systems and colors.

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Segments

Specialized Solutions For Every Segment – Flexibility and high quality service for the whole range of technologies

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Service

Exceptional application knowledge with a personal touch: Our expert team partners with clients around the world, providing high-quality services across a range of technologies.

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