Facts and Figures
50 million households, all over the world, use ICI paints every year.
Akzo Nobel supplied more than 15,000 litres of specialist coatings to protect the 135-metre high BA London Eye from the elements. The total area of steelwork coats was around 13,000 square metres - and another 2,000 square metres underwater.
ICI Paints produces 1.1 billion litres of paint which if in 1 litre cans placed on top of one another, would be 13,000 times the height of mount everest.
After being asked to help supply paint for the restoration of the original home of wartime diarist Ann Frank in Amsterdam, Akzo Nobel's paint experts have recreated the original colours from paint fragments found in her home.The house at Merwedeplein is not the one with the secret annex where Ann wrote her world-famous diary, but the original home her family lived in before WW2.Experts from Akzo Nobel's Sikkens brand found the colours of the home to be predominantly green.
Each year ICI Paints produces enough paint to decorate every house in all of Los Angeles, London and Beijing.
The Akzo Nobel owned International Paint business has successfully completed coating one of the world's largest crude oil carriers-the 442,500 dwt V-Plus TI Africa. Owned and operated by Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), the 2002 Korean-built vessel-one of four sister ships' recently drydocked in Dubai.OSG carefully considered the choice of coating system for the massive 20,000 square meters of underwater sides on the 3.2 million barrel vessel and opted for International.
Coatings from Akzo Nobel have been used on four kilometres of high-adrenaline rollercoaster rides in the USA, Germany, Spain and Japan for one of the world's biggest manufacturers of amusement park attractions, INTAMIN (International Amusement Installations), which supplies more than 20 different styles of ride to parks all over the world. The coatings help protect the rides from baking sun and driving rain and help keep bright colours gleaming.
