The future of paint manufacturing

Posted on 27 Oct 2022 by The Manufacturer

In this article, The Manufacturer speaks with Andrew Dawson, Site Manager at AkzoNobel’s Stowmarket factory, where there are 100 employees on site covering production and all support departments of quality, CI, HSE, engineering and maintenance. The company recently celebrated its 50th year of operation. Since opening in 1972, nearly two billion litres of paint have been created and distributed across the UK from the Stowmarket factory.

How has technology changed the way that paint is mass produced? Technology has had a huge impact on every part of the paint manufacturing process and, as a company which places innovation at its core, we are constantly looking at how we can use it to improve the way we operate. Taking the supply chain…

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