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Changes in the Variety of Colors in the Automotive Industry

Every year, the designers of the Coatings division of a chemical company create a new color collection to inspire automotive designers worldwide. While analyzing the color trends for 2023 to 2024, the designers realized that the classic automotive colors urgently needed a new look. PDF-Download

Color Report: Change in Achromatic Colors

The Color Report for Automotive OEM Coatings analyzes the global distribution of automotive colors every year. For private cars, white, black, gray and silver continue to dominate. The proportion of chromatic colors remains the same, with different regional color preferences. PDF-Download

Paint Expo 2024 - Huge Response and More International Than Ever

The ninth edition of Paint Expo from April 9 to 12, 2024 was a tremendous success. At the world's leading trade fair for industrial coating technology in Karlsruhe, 431 exhibitors from 25 countries presented new, groundbreaking technologies for the sustainable and energy-efficient coating processes of tomorrow to 10,400 trade visitors on an exhibition space of 31,500 m. PDF-Download

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Sustainable Painting Facility for Electric Vehicle Manufacturer

A Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer is focused on sustainable production processes with a new painting facility equipped by a German machine and plant manufacturer to save energy and resources. The system, along with exhaust air purification technology and software, was installed just nine months after order receipt. PDF-Download

STS BREF 2020: Strict Requirements for Existing Systems

Boris Barmbold

Increase energy efficiency, minimize emissions: The stricter European limits for large coating lines can only be complied with if operators bring their process, which is subject to approval, up to the latest technological standards. A careful planning ensures a successful retrofit. PDF-Download

Reducing CO2 Emissions With Transparency

Marco Benen

Sustainability, and climate protection in particular, is playing an increasingly important role in automotive production. A paint manufacturer uses holistic analysis methods to evaluate the CO emissions of its paints in production as well as the ecological footprint of the painting process and to assess reduction potential. PDF-Download

Limestone Powder Saves 17 Million Liters of Water

The paint shops of two plants belonging to a well-known German automotive group will be completely converted to dry separation with limestone powder in the near future. The process saves 17 million liters of water and around 17,400 MWh of energy per year. This reduces carbon dioxide emissions by more than 5000 tons. PDF-Download

Rotating Dip System for Commercial Vehicles

A conveyor system for dip coating that has been further developed for higher payloads is to provide a premium manufacturer of commercial vehicles with greater flexibility in pre-treatment and cataphoretic dip coating. PDF-Download

Compact and Modular Wet System Saves Space

A manufacturer has introduced a new system design: The flexible and scalable wet system for the car body pre-treatment requires less space and time compared to classic dip tanks and is well suited for small to medium production capacities. PDF-Download

Smart Surfaces Integrated Into the Component

Patrick Engemann

Smart components are being used more and more in our everyday lives. A research project for wireless contacting opens up new possibilities for the advancing miniaturization in the field of electrical engineering with a special injection moulding process. PDF-Download

New Plant Increases Productivity

A premium manufacturer of audio technology was experiencing a strongly increased demand for its products. Following a capacity analysis, the company decided to invest in a large wood processing center with integrated surface coating. The system was successfully put into operation after a short installation period. PDF-Download

Insulating Coating on Battery Cells Instead of Foiling

For reliable and efficient electrical insulation, a newly developed process is used to apply a protective coating instead of film wrapping the cells. In addition, ultra-fine cleaning of the bare battery cell ensures that the coating adheres completely and without gaps. A fully automated system is used here, which enables a continuous contact-free coating process of the battery cells with UV coating material. PDF-Download

Material-Saving Coating for Plastic Parts

An automotive industry supplier will use high-rotation atomizers for coating plastic components in its Hungarian production facility. According to the manufacturer, these high-rotation atomizers are more efficient than conventional spray guns, promising increased productivity and reduced paint consumption. PDF-Download

Efficient Powder Coating of Geometrically Complex Parts

JR Rogers

A US manufacturer of air outlets and heating registers applies the component color in its production by powder coating. The demands on the coating process are extremely high. The parts are geometrically complex, have several layers and different metals are used. Within nine months, a system was set up that was to revolutionize the supplier's production. PDF-Download

Agricultural Machinery Paint With Automotive Finish Qualities

The demands placed on surfaces are increasing in many areas, including agricultural machinery technology. One paint manufacturer initially relaunched one of its ultra-high-solids systems for agricultural machinery. In the next step, he improved the formulations in the wet paint structure and reduced the density of the products. The result is a sustainable reduction in VOC emissions, a significant acceleration in drying times and an optimized flow. PDF-Download

Driver's License for Technical Component Cleanliness

Janine-Melanie Potreck

The smallest impurities that can no longer be seen with the naked eye can cause major difficulties and damage. An innovative solution that took second place in the FiT2clean Award 2023 (JOT reported in issue 11/2023) allows technical cleanliness in the micro and nano range to be checked. It is based on high-precision test particles in predefined sizes and corresponding coding with UV-active colors. PDF-Download

Economical and Clean With the Right Choice of Filter

Numerous parameters such as temperature, water pressure, cleaning agent and cleaning process determine whether a system is optimized for the parts to be cleaned and achieves the required level of cleanliness. The aim is to make the process as economical as possible. Considerable savings potential lies dormant in a parameter that is often neglected: the right choice of filter for the filtration unit. PDF-Download

Heat Exchanger for a Sustainable Thermal Process

Environmental protection plays a decisive role for plant operators when it comes to selecting components and deciding on a technology. This also applies to the sectors in which these aspects were previously of secondary importance. The focus is shifting to systems that run on gas or other fossil fuels, such as heat exchangers. PDF-Download