Akzo Nobel Partners with BASF to Minimize Carbon Footprint in Paint Production

Biomass Balanced Ingredients Akzo Nobel Integrates BASF’s Renewable-Based Raw Materials into High-Volume Paints

2025-05-12 Source: Akzo Nobel 2 min Reading Time

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Akzo Nobel is partnering with BASF to reduce the carbon footprint of its high-volume decorative paints in EMEA. By using BASF’s certified biomass balanced ingredients, the company aims to lower CO₂ emissions by at least 5 % without altering product quality or manufacturing processes

An Akzo Nobel employee monitors Dulux Easycare paint production at the company's Ashington manufacturing site in the UK.(Source: Akzo Nobel) — An Akzo Nobel employee monitors Dulux Easycare paint production at the company's Ashington manufacturing site in the UK.
(Source: Akzo Nobel)

Speciality chemicals company Akzo Nobel is purchasing significantly reduced carbon footprint raw materials from BASF for its decorative paints production in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Signaling Akzo Nobel’s intent to deliver more lower carbon products into the mainstream, the agreement involves the company using BASF’s biomass balanced (BMB) ingredients — which don’t require any new formulations or changes to existing paint manufacturing processes. The end result of this approach is a paint with exactly the same quality and performance, but with a reduced carbon footprint of at least 5 %.

BASF replaces the fossil-based feedstock in the ingredients it supplies to Akzo Nobel with renewable resources such as bionaphtha and biomethane via a mass balance approach. This mass balance approach is certified by an independent third party. It means Akzo Nobel can purchase BASF’s acrylic binder (one of the main ingredients in decorative paints) with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.

“Integrating BASF’s BMB ingredients into our higher volume consumer products will help us achieve a significant overall impact in terms of carbon footprint reduction,” says Wijnand Bruinsma, Akzo Nobel’s Director of Sustainability. “Our partnership means the carbon footprint of any paint we produce using the BMB approach will be cut by at least 5 % to begin with, compared with the same formula produced using 100 % fossil-based material.”

Akzo Nobel in the UK is already preparing to launch its upgraded Dulux Easycare range — which uses the reduced CO₂ ingredients — during Q2 this year. It’s the first time the company has used certified mass balanced products (replacing fossil fuels with renewable raw materials) for an acrylic binder.

Akzo Nobel is working to achieve RedCert2 certification for all relevant production sites in Europe — a recognized mass balance standard for the chemical industry.

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