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| Nguyen My Lan – Normal director of AkzoNobel Ornamental Paints Vietnam |
Your transfer to the paints and coatings business has taken many unexpectedly. May you share what stands behind your determination to enterprise into a brand new discipline?
What impresses me essentially the most about GE and now AkzoNobel is their achievements and tradition. If a model cannot show its value to prospects and staff, it has no future. AkzoNobel’s greater than 200-year historical past is certainly one of fixed improvement, from its items to its folks.
It has additionally made nice contributions to the expansion of communities and full societies throughout the globe. AkzoNobel’s philosophy of doing enterprise for a greater life is one thing that resonates on a primal stage with me.
These shared values and the respect for the corporate gave me the arrogance to I embark on this new journey.
Did the COVID-19 pandemic not make this determination more durable?
To be sincere, it was not a simple determination to depart my consolation zone and enterprise into a very new discipline, particularly in such an unsure world. There was vital stress and rather a lot spoke in opposition to the transfer.
Vietnam has been fast to regulate to the pandemic and mitigate the injury, however the penalties of COVID-19 can nonetheless be felt. Nonetheless, I don’t imagine it’s a trigger for concern on the long run.
What helped me determine on the finish of the day is that I’m at all times in search of new challenges and private development. On the similar time, I do not set overly formidable objectives that I may not be capable to obtain – success for me is overcoming my present self.
Executives are dealing with huge uncertainties at the moment. What new path will AkzoNobel take beneath your course?
The COVID-19 pandemic has straight impacted provide chains, uncooked materials provides, and raised costs. In lots of international locations, inflation is turning into a urgent drawback. Companies throughout industries and nations are dealing with these points. We have to formulate options and motion plans. We are going to should be proactive to reply to the uncertainty of the world.
I joined AkzoNobel due to its folks – the corporate has constructed a workforce of devoted, energetic, and visionary people in Vietnam. My topmost accountability is to create beneficial situations and an atmosphere that facilitates their development. To answer market modifications in such a tough interval, we’ve adopted a spirit of self-discipline, creativity, and preparation.
Our largest benefit is our conviction to pursue sustainable improvement. It’s the guiding star for all actions at AkzoNobel. As a provider of floor options for all constructions, we carry to the market merchandise which might be aesthetically pleasing whereas guaranteeing the well being of customers with the suitable unstable solids content material.
The technique of AkzoNobel’s sustainable improvement is timeless because it helps scale back environmental air pollution, lower greenhouse gasoline emissions, and lower your expenses. Dulux Skilled, AkzoNobel’s flagship sustainable product, we use KeepCool expertise which might mirror UV rays and scale back wall temperature by as much as 5 levels Celsius in comparison with conventional paint, in addition to scale back the electrical energy invoice by 10 to fifteen per cent.
Think about how a lot electrical energy may very well be saved if KeepCool expertise was used to guard 100 high-rise buildings. Our merchandise not solely lower your expenses throughout the life cycle of the constructing, in addition they assist clear up the issue of saving vitality in at the moment’s cities and, extra importantly, lower carbon emissions.
How are your merchandise serving to scale back customers’ environmental footprint?
Dulux Skilled affords premium safety for as much as 10 years. Customers wouldn’t have to resume the paint floor throughout this time, saving cash and supplies. Other than lowering consumption, AkzoNobel’s options additionally carry financial benefits to the buildings.
As an illustration, we’ve 2-in-1 merchandise akin to Dulux Skilled Weathershield Specific which wants solely two coatings as a substitute of three, serving to buyers by saving prices, labour, and rushing up development time.
AkzoNobel tailors our options to the wants of every buyer group. For lodge and resort tasks, we provide moisture and salt resistance. For hospitals and colleges, we’ve merchandise with antibacterial options which might be simple to wash. Our sustainability story is a mixture of values, enriching everybody – the atmosphere, producers, development models, and buyers, together with finish customers.
What are the group’s company sustainability accountability (CSR) actions?
AkzoNobel is pleased with our CSR initiatives to protect and renew architectural works of historic and inventive worth around the globe. A few of our works in Vietnam embody Dai Lanh Lighthouse, Vung Tau Lighthouse, Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Museum of Nice Arts, and the Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Folks’s Committee constructing. We’re lucky to be ready to accomplice with others and protect these buildings.
After a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic, we’ll proceed this journey together with many different CSR actions. We at AkzoNobel don’t take group actions as only a social accountability however as a chance to specific our gratitude for the nice issues in life.