Interpon empowers customers to ‘Own Your Impact’ and turn sustainability into a driver of performance

Phil Black - PII Editor 08/12/2025

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Interpon, AkzoNobel’s global powder coatings brand, is redefining how manufacturers, architects and designers view sustainability by placing it at the centre of performance and innovation. Through its new approach, ‘Own Your Impact’, Interpon is encouraging businesses to see sustainability not as a compliance requirement but as a catalyst for measurable operational and commercial results.

‘Own Your Impact’ supports organisations in embedding sustainability across their operations, showing how environmental ambition can translate into both competitive advantage and long term value creation. This reflects Interpon’s Value Driven Sustainability philosophy which demonstrates that purpose and performance are mutually reinforcing.

Designed as a call to action, ‘Own Your Impact’ encourages customers to take charge of the areas where sustainable improvements can have the most meaningful effect. Instead of relying on isolated sustainability claims, it highlights how connected changes, from improving powder coatings processes to reducing waste, energy consumption and emissions, can deliver measurable improvements across an entire production line. Interpon’s strength lies in making sustainability practical and achievable by helping customers convert ambition into real world action.

Working in close partnership with its customers, Interpon provides products, tools and technical expertise that support efficient operations and reduced environmental impact. This collaborative approach helps businesses enhance productivity, increase innovation and achieve stronger performance with fewer resources.

Building on decades of powder coatings innovation, Interpon is using its extensive expertise to deliver measurable sustainability and business performance in three core areas.

Sustainability that helps you perform

Interpon provides solutions that make operations more efficient, consistent, economical and cost effective. Tools such as the Interpon Eco+ Cure energy calculator help manufacturers identify opportunities to lower curing temperatures, reduce waste and improve coating line productivity. This supports customers in cutting energy use while improving cost control.

Interpon also offers products that enable single layer application, removing unnecessary process steps and delivering high performance finishes with lower overall energy use. These improvements help reduce material consumption, save time on the production line and lower total environmental impact.

Sustainability that powers progress

Through innovation, partnerships and its understanding of the evolving regulatory environment, Interpon helps customers stay ahead of market and legislative pressures. The Interpon Eco+ product range brings together the brand’s most sustainable coatings, including low cure formulations, bio attributed options and long life coatings backed by robust data.

Interpon’s collaboration with suppliers and technology partners continues to drive progress across the industry. Partnerships with AI driven start ups and equipment manufacturers, including those developing laser curing technologies, are enabling next generation production capabilities and more energy efficient processes.

Sustainability that works for you

Interpon places emphasis on measurable environmental performance, helping customers verify and communicate their sustainability achievements with confidence. Its Eco+ Services include coating line optimisation tools such as Flightpath Pro which drives efficiency improvements. Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) provide transparent, third party verified data that support customer reporting, certification requirements and long term sustainability planning.

Jorrit van Rijn, Marketing Director at AkzoNobel Powder Coatings, says ‘Own Your Impact’ represents a results driven approach that aligns performance with purpose:

“Our goal is to make sustainability work for our customers, not as a separate initiative, but as an integral part of how they run and grow their business. With ‘Own Your Impact’, we help them identify where sustainability creates the greatest value, whether that’s improving line efficiency, reducing energy use, extending product life, or validating progress through data and audits.

“It’s a complete approach that connects innovation, performance, and measurable results. By supporting customers at every stage, we help turn sustainability into better productivity, lower costs, and stronger competitive advantage.”

Interpon’s approach positions sustainable manufacturing as a pathway to enhanced performance, greater efficiency and improved competitiveness. Its combination of technical expertise, advanced powder coating technology and comprehensive sustainability tools helps customers future proof their operations and deliver reliable long term value.

For more information, visit: www.interpon.com/sustainability