AkzoNobel

Dutch paints and coatings company with its head office in Amsterdam, whose roots go back to the nineteenth century and which took its present form in 1994, listed in Amsterdam. Makes decorative paints and performance coatings under brands including Dulux, Sikkens and International, including coatings for pharmaceutical and food plants, clean rooms and medical equipment, and its pharmaceutical business Organon was separated and sold to Schering-Plough in 2007 while the speciality chemicals arm became Nouryon in 2018.