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		<title><![CDATA[Dutch coatings specialist Akzo Nobel has strengthened its marine and protective coatings business with the acquisition of the Enviroline corrosion-resistant linings business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch coatings specialist Akzo Nobel has strengthened its marine and protective coatings business with the acquisition of the Enviroline corrosion-resistant linings business, which serves the oil and gas sectors, of Industrial Environmental Coatings, based in Florida, US. No financial details were disclosed.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The management team of UK coatings firm Crown Paints has completed its buyout of the business from Dutch coatings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The management team of UK coatings firm Crown Paints has completed its buyout of the business from Dutch coatings major Akzo Nobel (C&I 2008, 16, 15).]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a reaction to the current economic crisis, Dutch paints and coatings major Akzo Nobel has postponed a 1.6bn [euro] share buy-back programme in order to safeguard its refinancing of corporate bonds and is cutting 3500 jobs in its North American and European decorative paint operations.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scrapping tax relief is &#39;suffocating business&#39;]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business News In Brief    PROPERTY The scrapping of tax relief on empty property will hit regeneration projects and cost companies in Birmingham more than 20m, the city's council leader has warned. The councillor Mike Whitby said: "Birmingham's large scale regeneration has propelled it on to the global...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paint maker Akzo Nobel announces 3,500 job cuts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE, AFP &#8212; The world's largest paint maker, the Dutch-Swedish chemicals group Akzo Nobel, said on Monday said it would cut 3,500 jobs by 2011.  Synergies with ICI, the British chemicals group Akzo Nobel bought last year, "combined with... additional net cost savings, will result in a total...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch chemicals major Akzo Nobel has opened a new $23m site for the production and sales of protective coatings in Suzhou, China. The plant is expected to be expanded to reach a capacity of 50m litres/year over the next 10 years.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[All 8000t of steelwork used in the Beijing Olympics' National Aquatics Center, or Water Cube, was protected by coatings supplied by Akzo Nobel's International Paint business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All 8000t of steelwork used in the Beijing Olympics' National Aquatics Center, or Water Cube, was protected by coatings supplied by Akzo Nobel's International Paint business. Some 1000kg of the company's Interpon powder coatings were also used during its construction.  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[To meet EU approval requirements for its acquisition of ICI, Akzo Nobel is divesting its UK-based Crown Paints business to independent UK private equity house Endless]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To meet EU approval requirements for its acquisition of ICI, Akzo Nobel is divesting its UK-based Crown Paints business to independent UK private equity house Endless. The deal includes production facilities in Darwen, Warrington, Hull, Belfast and Dublin in Ireland together with 100 Crown decorating retail centres.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[German speciality chemical company Henkel has completed its 4bn [euro] acquisition of the National Starch adhesives and electronic materials businesses]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[German speciality chemical company Henkel has completed its 4bn [euro] acquisition of the National Starch adhesives and electronic materials businesses that Dutch speciality chemicals producer Akzo Nobel gained through its purchase of ICI.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Henkel of Dusseldorf, Germany, has taken over from Akzo Nobel the Adhesives and Electronic Materials businesses previously owned by National Starch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henkel of Dusseldorf, Germany, has taken over from Akzo Nobel the Adhesives and Electronic Materials businesses previously owned by National Starch. "This acquisition represents a milestone in our 130-plus-year corporate history and points Henkel clearly in the direction of further profitable growth," said Ulrich Lehner, chairman of the Management Board...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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