automotive

BASF Invests $40 Million in Automotive Coatings in North America

The investments add capacity to the company’s production plants in Greenville, Ohio, and Tultitlan, Mexico.

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Supercar Gets Super Ecoat System

Honda builds unique ecoat system for Acura NSX at $70 million Performance Manufacturing Center.

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sustainability

How to Make Automotive Paint Shops More Sustainable

Q. Our paint shop is the place of highest energy consumption and highest VOC and CO2 emissions in the car manufacturing process. What measures can be taken to reduce them?

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Liquid Coating

Giffin Wins 2017 Automotive News Pace Award

The prestigious award recognizes automotive suppliers for superior innovation, technological advancement and business performance.

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automotive

BASF R-M Paint Featured on Covestro Concept Electric Car

The orange color was a specially developed paint formulation by the color and design experts at BASF’s Coatings division and its R-M refinish paint brand.

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automotive

VIDEO: Mercedes-Benz Picks Ecopaint RoDip for New SC Plant

Rotating vehicles up to 26 feet long through an immersion bath is something that has never happened before, says Dürr Group, one of the world's leading mechanical and plant engineering firms with automation expertise.

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automotive

The Nature, Cause and Effect of Porosity in Electrodeposits: A Microscopic Examination of Nickel-Chromium Coatings after Atmospheric Corrosion

This paper is one of seven reports constituting AES Research Project #13, dealing with the nature, cause and effect of porosity in electrodeposits, performed at the then-National Bureau of Standards, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It was one of several seminal articles produced through AES Research during the height of the automotive/decorative segment of the surface finishing industry in the 1950s and 60s.

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curing

Sherwin-Williams CARC Powder Topcoats Earn Approval from U.S. Army Research Lab

High performance, near-zero gloss CARC powder topcoats help safeguard American military vehicles and the warfighters within through chemical agent resistance and protection from detection through an infrared signature.

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Electroplating

Rubbery, Velvety, Silky: Haptic Properties of Coated Automotive Plastic Parts

HapticMapping is an objective approach for determining the haptic properties of PUR-coated plastics.

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automotive

Axalta Coating Systems to Acquire Century Industrial Coatings

Century is a leading manufacturer of high performance industrial coatings for structural steel, oil and gas, rail cars and other OEM applications.

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