Dulux owner AkzoNobel has collaborated with design and innovation company Seymourpowell to create new technology that allows paint to be recycled more cost-effectively and on a large scale.
Seymourpowell was tasked with creating the machinery and technology to overcome the technical and commercial challenges of scaling up a recycling process created by paint chemist Keith Harrison and bringing it to the mainstream.
Currently 400m litres of paint is sold in the UK each year but 13 per cent of it goes unused; amounting to 55 million litres in total. Seymourpowell’s new technology mechanizes the process of decanting unused paint from tins, Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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