If anything reflects the multi-faceted aspects of the paint and coatings industry in the 2020s,it must surely be AkzoNobel's annual report for 2022 that runs to a comprehensive 167 pages of’text-bites’and graphics.Acquisitions,formulations,raw materials,inflation,war,training,sustainability,packaging,e-commerce operations,in-store retailing and innovation are all in this literary collage of the challenges and fronts that major paint companies have to be active on these days.AkzoNobel,Europe's largest paint company,reflects in its report on all of its efforts within the global paint and coatings scene,its supply chains and sustainability and clean industry targets as well as its financial outcomes from yet another testing year for industry.However,not too many of the five-and ten-year charts and graphics so beloved of annual report designers this time instead more of an outward-looking,focusing on the future approach.This is almost certainly a reflection of the turbulent time all paint industry players have experienced in the lockdown and post-lockdown years.
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