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AkzoNobel announces Heart Wood as
Section Sponsor
2018 Colour of the Year

India Roofing
Tiles Market
Outlook -

Increasing n AkzoNobel, the leading global paints and coatings company and the makers of Dulux paints

Infrastructure in India, unveiled Heart Wood today as the Colour of the Year for 2018. As a part of the 15th
Development edition of AkzoNobel’s annual global study, ColourFuturesTM, Farhan Akhtar, brand ambassador
of Dulux in India, unveiled the colour trend – ‘Heart Wood’.
Driving Demand Developed by the company’s Global Aesthetic Center in collaboration with leading design and

n Netscribes’ latest market 11 international colour experts, ColourFuturesTM 2018 conveys comfort and ease in response
research report titled Roofing to consumers wanting to nestle down more and create a “welcome home”. Heart Wood- a
Tiles Market in India 2017 states subtle and warm tone of grown-up pink, draws inspiration from the tactile qualities of natural
that the domestic roofing tiles wood and leather.
market is currently facing stiff
competition from other roofing Citral plant in Ludwigshafen: BASF launches
materials, such as, metal sheets n BASF launched a website, www.basf.com/citral-plant, to inform its customers, industry
and concrete roofs. Indian stakeholders and the interested public about the progress of the repair work at its Citral
roofing industry has witnessed production plant in Ludwigshafen. Following a fire at the plant on October 31, 2017, BASF was
a huge change over the years forced to declare Force Majeure on all its Citral and Isoprenol-based aroma ingredients and
primarily due to a decline in on Vitamin A and E, and several Carotenoid products. The website also provides up-to-date
consumer preferences for estimations of product availability after the start-up of the plant.
conventional roofing options.
At present, India’s roofing
market is gradually developing “Electrical Safety Week” is one of the leading
for the next generation of platforms to promote issues related to
products, with infrastructure
and industrial boom being the ‘Electrical safety in Maharashtra’
primary demand driver for this n The use of electricity is an integral part of our lives and it is important to harness it safely
sector. The roofing tiles market and efficiently. Each year there is a heavy loss of life and damage to property as a result
can be categorized into two of electrical-related incidents and fires. Many electrical fatalities and injuries that occur
broad segments - handmade each year can be overcome through understanding of safe electrical practices. To sensitize
tiles and machine made tiles. and to propagate the message of safe electrical practices, Chief Electrical Inspectorate of
Use of machine made tiles Maharashtra in association with Industry stake holders including International Copper
is concentrated in the south Association India (ICA India) is organising Electrical Safety Week during 11th Jan 2018 till
western states of India, while 17th Jan 2018. The Safety Week is aimed to outline the provisions of safety regulation
handmade tiles dominate the with the new technological developments, problems and challenges in implementing the
northern parts of the country. regulation and to ensure the safety of electrical installation and the user of electricity.

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