Vietnam: Akzo Nobel – pigments for paint

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Weight: 35 KB
• Volume: 2005
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-6210
• DOI: 10.1016/s0969-6210(05)00565-5

✦ Synopsis

successfully commissioned last year and is now consistently achieving unit production costs that are as much as 50% below costs of similar facilities in the US or Europe. Elementis has also recently pushed through a 25% increase in chrome pigment prices. Hence, the company anticipates substantially improved profit margins on its chrome pigments business in 2005.