Gloss leaders

Geoff Thomas gets under the skin of aircraft painting to understand coatings. Next time you fly in an airliner from one of the major Middle East-based carriers, there’s an 80 per cent chance that the glossy exterior paintwork will have been applied using products from Dutch-based company AkzoNobel...

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