Dutchman Wants to Deploy Barriers to Gather, Recycle Pacific Plastic
when he was 16. "I was diving in Greece and realised I was coming across more plastic bags than fish, and I wondered why don't we clean this up," he said. He now runs a team of more than 60 people and has the backing of some major companies such as dredger Boskalis and chemical group Akzo Nobel. (Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek
Subsea Industries Opens UK Office
career 25years ago following a stint as an apprentice professional footballer playing for Fulham Football Club. His first role in the coatings industry was with Leigh’s Paints, now part of Sherwin-Williams. He was then appointed Middle East sales representative for Hempel after which he moved to Akzo Nobel’s International Paint division in Dubai, specializing in coatings for the oil and gas and, later, aerospace sectors. During this time he qualified as a NACE Level 2 Coatings Inspector.
GAC EnvironHull a big hit with Rotterdam Port
creation of innovative products with world class partners. New technologies and initiatives are contributing to a cleaner, safer and healthier shipping world – a world that GAC is an active part of.” Sjödoff was joined on the panel of experts: John Willsher, Global Accounts Manager at AkzoNobel’s Marine Coatings Business, International; Gavin van Popering, former Performance Manager, Underwater Services for A.P. Møller-Maersk Shipping; and Ron van Gelder, Senior Advisor to the Port of Rotterdam, who stressed that the port “has an eye for innovation, especially when
AkzoNobel Debuts Intershield
AkzoNobel’s Marine Coatings business has launched a best-in-class anticorrosive universal primer, Intershield One-2-One, which delivers simplified maintenance, waste avoidance and enhanced corrosion protection. Intershield One-2-One, part of AkzoNobel’s International range of marine coatings, is a surface tolerant universal primer for use during on board maintenance. It is based on the company’s Intershield 300 pure epoxy technology, which provides a unique balance of abrasion and corrosion resistance with optimum levels of hardness and flexibility, delivering long-term
February 2025
