Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy visited and worked with AkzoNobel Company, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Continuing the working trip to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, on the afternoon of June 11 (local time), the delegation of Nghe An province led by comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation visited and worked at AkzoNobel Company.
Delegates from Nghe An province also attended the working session with comrades: Le Duc Cuong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Organization Committee; Major General Bui Quang Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Provincial Police; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Directors of the Departments: Planning and Investment, Finance, Transport, Agriculture and Rural Development, Foreign Affairs.
Delegates from the Vietnamese Embassy include: Mr. Ngo Huong Nam - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Vietnam to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Welcoming and working with the delegation of Nghe An province, the leaders of AkzoNobel Company included: Armand Sohet - Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), member of the Executive Board; Jesse Martens - Director of Global Public Relations; Wijnand Bruinsma - Director of Sustainable Development; Vincent Mol - Director of Paint Strategy.
At the meeting, the representative of AkzoNobel Company introduced the history of establishment, development process, products, business activities, market segments, and customers of the company.
AkzoNobel Company has a long history, with its predecessor starting its paint business in the Netherlands in 1792 and through many mergers, officially coming into existence in 1994.
To date, AkzoNobel has been present in more than 100 countries, becoming a Dutch multinational company specializing in the production of paints and performance coatings for industries worldwide with famous product lines such as: paint for aircraft, cars, ships, coastal works according to the sustainable development strategy. The core values aimed at the company's sustainable development are: productivity, asset protection, surface enhancement, environmental protection...
AkzoNobel has a long history of operating in Vietnam, acting as a manufacturing hub and a pioneer investor in sustainable business. AkzoNobel invests the most in Vietnam compared to other countries in the ASEAN region with 4 manufacturing facilities in Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Binh Duong and Bac Ninh to serve retailers and project customers.
In Vietnam, the company develops the Dulux and Maxilite paint brands - paints widely used for civil and industrial works, accounting for 28% of the world paint market. Recently, Dulux and Maxilite have participated in building quality social housing with sustainable surface coating solutions at the Ori Garden Da Nang Social Housing Project and wish to be present in Nghe An province.
Speaking at the meeting, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy respectfully thanked key members of the Board of Directors of AkzoNobel Company for taking the time to welcome and work with the delegation, which demonstrated their affection and concern for Vietnam, including Nghe An province.
The head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee said that the visit of the Nghe An delegation to the Netherlands took place in the context of the comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and the Netherlands developing very well after more than 50 years of establishing diplomatic relations. Currently, the Netherlands has become the largest European investor in Vietnam and the largest importer of Vietnamese goods in Europe.
Investment and trade cooperation between Nghe An province and partners from the Netherlands has also initially achieved positive results and has many clear potentials and opportunities. In that context, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy hopes that AkzoNobel Company will soon be present in Nghe An to study the investment environment and market in Nghe An province and consider setting up a production facility in Nghe An province in the near future; at the same time, he expressed his support for the company's strategy and interest in social projects in Nghe An province.
Information on some characteristics and situation of Nghe An province, especially preferential policies and competitive advantages of the province for investors such as: convenient location for goods transit, increasingly synchronous infrastructure, especially transportation, finance, resort, large population market, high demand for products; industrial park infrastructure is invested systematically, enjoying the highest incentives according to regulations of the Vietnamese Government... The Provincial Party Secretary affirmed: Nghe An will allocate appropriate resources to meet the requirements of investors from the Netherlands, including AkzoNobel Company.
Responding to the proposal of the head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, the representative of the Company's leadership said that Nghe An is one of the major markets and plays an important role in AkzoNobel's strategy and expressed the desire to contribute to the socio-economic development of the province; at the same time, he believed that today's meeting would be meaningful, helping to strengthen the relationship between AkzoNobel and Nghe An province.