automotive

Electrocoating 17 Jul 2017

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.

masking 1 Jul 2017

Supercar Gets Super Ecoat System

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

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Liquid Coating 1 Jun 2017

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?

Powder Coating 25 May 2017

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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Liquid Coating 14 Apr 2017

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.

Electrocoating 12 Apr 2017

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 6 Apr 2017

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.