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6 NEWS www.finishingmagazine.co.uk The BCF has appointed its first female preseident at its conference in Derby Aerospace award The Aerospace Coatings business of AkzoNobel has achieved the highest supplier award in the Airbus Supply Chain & Quality Improvement Program (SQIP). The team once again attained ‘Accredited Supplier’ status for Airbus Procurement Operations, materials and parts. The award acknowledges AkzoNobel’s ongoing focus on delivering a sustained performance aligned to agreed KPIs, strong continuous improvements, and a proven customer-oriented approach in line with Airbus targets and expectations. It particularly recognizes the developments and process improvements across all of the AkzoNobel Aerospace sites. It also reflects the ongoing drive to further reduce the supply chain risk associated with sourcing and securing the supply of raw materials conducted by Procurement teams and Research and Development teams within the business. Alexia Apostolou, Airbus key account manager at AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings, says the award is recognition of a journey of continuous improvement: “We realize that the best can always be better, and we are constantly challenging ourselves to enhance the quality of our products and our service,” she explains. Curing for the coil industry Beckers has adapted the use of UV/EB curing technology for the coil coating industry and has been developing and testing suitable paint formulations since 2005 as the application technology itself has developed. Beckers’ first coil coating radiation curing system has been launched earlier in 2023 and its LCA study highlighted significant sustainability benefits for UV/EB coil coating compared with conventional techniques. Beckers conducted LCAs for conventional solvent-borne and waterbased coil coating techniques, as well as the new UV/EB technology. The assessments covered a cradle to customer gate perspective – including the manufacture of the coating, its component raw materials and the customer’s coil coating process for each coating technique. “The LCAs highlighted that UV/EB coil coating significantly reduces CO2e emissions and enhances resource efficiency compared with conventional coil coating techniques,” explains James Maxted, global product sustainability director. “Sustainability-related savings are primarily realised from the cold-cure UV/EB process that does not require natural gas and can instead use electricity from renewable sources. UV/EB curing also requires much less paint per square metre than standard solvent-based formulations which carry significant quantities of solvents that are necessary to facilitate application, but which are removed in the ovens and combusted via Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTO).” Over 150 senior business leaders and decision-makers from the UK's paints, coatings and printing ink sectors gathered in Derby for the 2023 British Coatings Federation (BCF) Annual Conference. The conference also marked the close of current BCF President Guy Williams’ two-year tenure, with the baton being passed to incoming President, Sharon Harte of Dacrylate Paints. Sharon becomes the first female President of the BCF – or its predecessor organisations – in its 111-year history. Speaking of his time as President, Guy thanked the Board and said it had been an honour to serve the industry. “BCF has developed considerably over the last 10 years, and I have no doubt it will continue to grow and thrive. Looking back, I take immense pride in the achievements of BCF in recent years. Starting with the new HQ in Coventry, we’ve seen the Federation strengthen significantly and has twice been named Trade Association of the Year. Financially we are on a very sound footing now and Corporate Governance is exemplary, ratified with the Trade Association’s Good Governance Award in February this year, with high engagement at Board Level and a clear strategy for the years ahead.” Commenting on her appointment, Sharon Harte said that she was looking forward to serving the for the next two years and supporting the BCF team. “I would like to personally thank Guy for his fantastic leadership throughout his presidency which must be one of the most turbulent periods in the industry’s history. Looking forward, the BCF, like many others, will face significant challenges ahead. However, the BCF is continuing to punch above its weight on key issues such as UK REACH, Net Zero, and changes to packaging and building regulations.” Tom Bowtell, CEO of BCF, added: “We are all looking forward to working with Sharon in her new role as President. She is a great servant of, and advocate for the industry. We know we have so much more to do in terms of addressing diversity issues in our industry but this marks another step in the right direction. We have more female BCF Board members than ever before too and we have, collectively, pledged to do more to prioritise further progress in terms of diversity and inclusion across the sector as a whole.” Coating’s highest honour Geoff Mackrill was awarded the coatings industry’s highest honour, the Silver Medal, at the British Coatings Federation Conference in Derby. Geoff took over the running of his family business, Teal and Mackrill, in Hull in 1999. He has been active within the BCF since the early 2000s and has led BCF’s campaigning with Government departments on several key issues – most notably defending the use of anti-fouling coatings for the marine sector with HSE and Defra. Serving on the BCF Board of Directors since 2002, Geoff also currently holds the chair of the BCF Marine Coatings Group, a position he has held for the last five years. On top of this, he spent six years representing the UK paints industry in Europe as a board member of CEPE, the European coatings association. Geoff helped ensure BCF maintained its seat at the table, facilitating the British Coatings industry to be represented within Europe post-Brexit. Finishing – July/August 2023
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