"I love Paint The Future - Collaborative Innovation by AkzoNobel"

2022-05-16 20:08:40

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We are one big GLOBAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM No great thing was ever created alone. Make a splash in the paints and coatings industry. Collaborate with bright minds to accelerate and commercialize your solutions. The community says "Participating in the Paint the Future Accelerator was an incredible experience for our startup. The team put together a world class program" Tim Angus AOMS Executive Advisor "So many great ideas were brought forward through Paint the Future. There is a true drive to innovate" Mayke Geradts ING "The companies that came together at the Paint the Future Accelerator presented the most amazing ideas and created an enormous impact. Truly inspiring" Danny Lucas Lucas UK Group INNOVATE WITH US Startups Your gateway into the paints and coatings industry. Explore our current programs and start accelerating your solutions! Suppliers Our raw material suppliers are also our strong innovation partners. Check out our collaboration opportunities. Academia Connect and collaborate with the world’s brightest minds, with a direct line to top leaders and industry experts. Coming soon Paint the Future is the ecosystem​ for accelerating new innovations in paints and coatings. Through our platform and programs, innovators get access to resources to help commercialize their solutions. It’s all about connecting what we know with what we don’t know yet. News Check out these great examples of what happens when bright minds join forces to develop revolutionary ideas. 245 submissions from around the world September 15, 2021The initial phase of our Paint the Future global startup challenge saw an incredible 245 innovative solutions from 62 different countries. Second round of supplier programm September 10, 2021New innovation horizons are being explored through four exciting partnerships following the second round of the Paint the Future supplier program, continuing AkzoNobel’s collaborative innovation story. Autonomous painting drone Apellix X AkzoNobelCombining drones and painting? Tell us more! Apellix won a partnership agreement from AkzoNobel during the 2019 Paint the Future global startup challenge. Find out more about our collaboration on a custom-built spray painting drone. AkzoNobel innovations See all Our innovations go beyond expectation, beyond imagination and beyond generations. How? Discover our inspiring stories here. Beyond corrosion​ Water-based paint is the ultimate rust-buster Need to fix up your old, rusty fence but don’t know where to start? Hammerite Ultima makes it easy. Use it on any metal surface – even rusted ones – without a primer. The genius of the more sustainable water-based formulation is that it dries fast to of... Beyond spotless Dulux EasyCare+ resists stains and scuffs​ Keeping your walls pristine is a battle – but the calvary's here in the form of Dulux EasyCare+. Using heroic Scuff Resist technology, the paint forms a durable matt coating that prevents battle scars from any plastic, rubber or wood adversaries. Live, play... Beyond hygienic Enhanced powder coatings with antimicrobial propertie... BioCote® technology does not protect users or others against disease causing bacteria, germs, viruses or other harmful organisms. This technology is not a substitute for good hygiene and/or cleaning practices. Beyond eyesight Digital quality checks for textured powder coatings Visual inspection used to be the only way you could quality check a textured powder coating surface. Pioneering technology takes us a major step forward. With the help of our expertise, BYK-Gardner has added digital measurement of texture to the spectro2profi... Beyond gameplay A story about science, sparkle and surfaces It’s extremely hard to digitally capture metallic and pearl sparkle effects the way they appear in real life. It used to require a little imagination. So we developed interactive 3D color visualization tools for our customers – by updating technology used... Beyond the rainbow Cloud-based app retrieves millions of colors There are way more than seven colors in the rainbow! Our MIXITᵀᴹ app contains more than two million formulas for automotive, aerospace and yacht colors. It’s easy, accessible and helps both painters and managers do their work. We call it “the future o... Why AkzoNobel Leading the transformation of the paints and coatings industry. Join us €1.25 billion spend R&D (5 year) 3.000 scientists employed +3.100 patents 70 laboratories globally +200 years +‎€9 billion revenue +34 thousand employees 150+ active countries Access Connect and collaborate with the world’s brightest minds, top leaders and industry experts Tailored programs Time-pressured acceleration will help you commercialize and grow your solution Scale Tap into the evolving paints and coatings industry to grow your business in exciting new ways MEET US MEET US Team Sponsors MEET US Sponsors Team "Paint the Future is AkzoNobel’s unique open innovation platform for accelerating innovation in paints and coatings. A step-change in how we innovate in partnership" Menno van der Zalm Innovation Director at AkzoNobel "We are destined to continue the collaborative journey with the 2019 recipients of the Paint the Future awards, but also with many more. This is our way to drive innovation in paints and coatings beyond expectation, imagination and generations" Klaas Kruithof AkzoNobel Chief Technology Officer (CTO) "We had high hopes when we first launched Paint the Future. I think it’s safe to say it exceeded all our expectations. The quality of the ecosystem is amazing, as is the sheer breadth of expertise" Thierry Vanlancker AkzoNobel CEO MEET US MEET US Team Sponsors MEET US Sponsors Team "Fantastic to see what we can do when we bring different people together. Looking forward to broadening our ecosystem with other groups of great minds and see how this journey continues to stir up the industry" Monique de Graaf Project Support at AkzoNobel "Connecting people, technology and creativity are the key ingredients for sustainable innovation and something that I have been doing for different industries. Paint the Future oozes this vision where the goal is to accelerate innovative solutions for our industry." Mignon d'Arnaud Paint the Future Project Lead at AkzoNobel "As a former startup founder, still fresh AkzoNobel employee, I’m driven to help startups and scale-ups bring the future to market, together with AkzoNobel’s global ecosystem of people and ideas" Ally van der Boon Paint the Future Program Manager Video failed This is probably because you disabled Cookies, you can change your preferences in the footer and refresh. If you just enabled cookies, you might need to refresh the page first. Any questions? Get in touch SubscribeTerms of usePrivacy StatementCookies © 2022 JOIN THE COMMUNITY By providing your e-mail address you agree that we can send you information in accordance with our privacy statement. Remind me By providing your e-mail address you agree that we can send you information in accordance with our privacy statement.