7. Oct 2022 | Markets & Companies
Akzo Nobel’s "Paint the Future India" challenge awards two startups
The winning submissions answered the company’s call for innovative ways to enhance the digital consumer experience. The winners are: HyperReality Technologies, located in Bengaluru, India, with a collaborative platform for inspiration and visualisation of a space in the metaverse; and Fluid AI, located in Mumbai, India, with a multi-channel, conversational, immersive and interactive AI platform to guide consumers during their painting journey.
Accelerator program
Having already signed letters of intent to work together on sustainable business opportunities, the two winners now join Akzo Nobel’s accelerator program. “Over the next six months, the goal is clear – to work together with our winners and develop a digital value proposition,” says Oscar Wezenbeek, Managing Director of Akzo Nobel Decorative Paints in South East and South Asia and Chair of Akzo Nobel India. “The startups will have access to our global network of experts and resources leading up to ‘Demo Day’.”

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EC Tech Report Water-borne Protective Coatings
Despite the times of crisis that we live in, the world market for corrosion protection coatings is still growing and water-borne corrosion protection coatings are rapidly evolving. This EC Tech Report presents the most important innovations that have taken place in water-borne corrosion protection coatings over the last two years. Learn more about how corrosion protection is improved with the aid of nanostructured and phosphatised water-borne binders, find out how compliance with stricter regulations can be combined with improved concrete sealing by using latex binders that have a low VOC content and gain insights into a into a new class of liquid, modified polyamides that are used as a rheology additive to enable water-borne coating systems to adjust the flow behaviour of solvent-borne systems. In addition to these and further articles about the latest technical developments, the Tech Report is rounded off with valuable market insights and important fundamentals about water-borne protective coatings.
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