On Tuesday 4 June 2020, the IChemE Young Members Forum of London & South East Coast  (YMF LSEC) organised its annual technical talk as a webinar, due to the COVID-19.

The technical talk titled “Using Chemical Engineering in the Paint and Coatings industry to drive sustainability and processing improvements” was delivered by Adam Barnes. A Chartered Chemical Engineer currently working at AkzoNobel, with 28 years of experience in different fields of the process industry. Adam began his presentation about his career path as a chemical engineer, followed by an introduction to the wide variety of paints and coatings AkzoNobel produce. The talk continued with a discussion on the current challenges in the manufacture of paints and coatings, emphasizing three drivers for performance improvement, namely efficient processing steps; optimal resource productivity; and, layout, internal logistics and planning. Adam completed his presentation by giving some examples of applying these principles followed by a Q&A session.

The IChemE YMF LSEC would like to thank again to the speaker for his contribution to the event, and to the webinar organisers: Ruben Altamirano Baker and Maximiliano Jara Fornerod.

The webinar is available online for IChemE members after registration in the following link:

https://www.icheme.org/paintandcoatings

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