AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel accelerating transition to clean energy in China
06 Mar 2025
AkzoNobel accelerating transition to clean energy in China | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel embracing circularity by reusing industrial residue to make paint
04 Mar 2025
AkzoNobel embracing circularity by reusing industrial residue to make paint | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel launches new wood coating with 20% bio-based content
27 Feb 2025
AkzoNobel launches new wood coating with 20% bio-based content | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel’s 2024 annual report published online
26 Feb 2025
AkzoNobel’s 2024 annual report published online | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel proposes to separate Powder Coatings business from its Indian subsidiary
24 Feb 2025
AkzoNobel proposes to separate Powder Coatings business from its Indian subsidiary | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel launches game-changing waterborne basecoat for bodyshops
05 Feb 2025
AkzoNobel launches game-changing waterborne basecoat for bodyshops | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel delivers organic sales growth and adjusted EBITDA expansion in Q4 and full-year 2024; accelerates efficiency measures
05 Feb 2025
AkzoNobel delivers organic sales growth and adjusted EBITDA expansion in Q4 and full-year 2024; accelerates efficiency measures | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel announces €22 million investment in France, to streamline its operations
10 Jan 2025
AkzoNobel announces €22 million investment in France, to streamline its operations | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel enters new waters with China’s landmark deep-sea drilling vessel
07 Jan 2025
AkzoNobel enters new waters with China’s landmark deep-sea drilling vessel | AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel playing critical role in improving China’s water supply
18 Dec 2024
AkzoNobel playing critical role in improving China’s water supply | AkzoNobel
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
