AkzoNobel has inaugurated the first-of-its-kind Specialty Coatings production facility and colour laboratory in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a satellite town 25 km from New Delhi, to service its customers in the consumer electronics, automobile and cosmetic industries.

With an investment of € 0.4 million (INR 3 crore), the new site will manufacture 600 kl of coatings annually, thus catering to the localisation drive undertaken by many large companies.

Being situated in India, the site will supply AkzoNobel's coating systems faster to manufacturing companies in the country. Already commissioned, the facility is in its first phase; the second phase is likely to be completed by the end of 2016, with scope for further expansion.

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