On the afternoon of June 11 (local time), Nghe An province's delegation 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 Delegation of National Assembly Deputies visited and worked at AkzoNobel Company, Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy, Ambassador Ngo Huong Nam and delegates at the meeting

Delegates from Nghe An province attending the meeting were comrades: Le Duc Cuong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee; Major General Bui Quang Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Director of the Provincial Police Department; 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 PPC; Directors of Departments: Planning and Investment, Finance, Transport, Agriculture and Rural Development, Foreign Affairs.

Representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy include comrade: Ngo Huong Nam - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Viet Nam to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Welcoming and working with the Nghe An provincial delegation, 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 - Paint strategy director.

At the meeting, the leadership representative of AkzoNobel Company introduced the company's history, development process, products, business activities, market segments, and customers.

AkzoNobel Company has a long history, with the predecessor business starting the paint business in the Netherlands in 1792 and through many mergers, officially coming into existence in 1994.

To date, AkzoNobel has operated in more than 100 countries, becoming a Dutch multinational company specializing in the production of performance paints and coatings for industry worldwide with famous product lines such as: painting aircraft, cars, ships, and coastal constructions according to the sustainable development strategy. The company's key and core values for sustainable development are: productivity, asset protection, surface enhancement, environmental protection, etc.

AkzoNobel has a long history of operations in Viet Nam, serving as a manufacturing center and a pioneering investor in the field of sustainable enterprises. AkzoNobel invests in Viet Nam the most compared to other countries in the ASEAN region with 4 production 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 projects, 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 look forward to being present in Nghe An province.

Speaking at the meeting, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy respectfully thanked the key members of the Board of Directors of AkzoNobel Company for taking the time to welcome and work with the delegation, which showed affection as well as interest in Viet Nam, including Nghe An province.

The Head of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee said that the visit of the Nghe An Provincial Delegation to the Netherlands took place in the context of the comprehensive partnership between Viet Nam and the Netherlands which is developing very well after more than 50 years of establishing diplomatic relations. Currently, the Netherlands has become the largest European investor in Viet Nam and the largest importer of Vietnamese goods in Europe.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy speaks at the meeting

Mr. Jesse Martens - Director of Global Public Relations of AkzoNobel Company discusses with Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy and the delegation of Nghe An province

Investment and trade cooperation between Nghe An province and partners from the Netherlands also initially achieved positive results and has many obvious potentials and opportunities. In that context, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy hoped that AkzoNobel Company will soon be present in Nghe An to study the investment environment and market in Nghe An province and consider locating a production facility in Nghe An province in the near future; and expressed his support for the company's strategy and interest in social projects in Nghe An province.

Informing about some characteristics and situation of Nghe An province, especially preferential policies and competitive advantages of the province for investors such as: having a convenient goods transit location, increasingly synchronous connection infrastructure, especially traffic, finance, and resorts, a market with a large population and large demand for products; industrial park infrastructure being methodically invested and enjoyed the highest incentives according to regulations of the Vietnamese Government, etc. Comrade Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee affirmed: Nghe An will devote adequate resources to meet the requirements of investors from the Netherlands, including AkzoNobel Company.

Responding to the proposal of the head of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, a 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 its desire to contribute to the socio-economic development of the province; at the same time, believed that today's meeting will become meaningful, helping the relationship between AkzoNobel and Nghe An province become more connected.

Source: baonghean.vn