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BASF Opens New Automotive Center in Houston

Center includes the latest in virtual and in-person training facilities, spray booths and market-leading application equipment.

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automotive

Electrocoating Q&A: Film Thickness Options

What type of epoxy ecoat do most automotive companies use for their steel parts?

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curing

BASF Presents Winner of 2016 Fight Club of Automotive Design

Omar Gonzalez won the 2016 Middlecott Sketchbattle Experiment, Detroit’s first-ever “Fight Club of Design."

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Liquid Coating

BASF Wins 2015 Nissan Award

BASF received the Nissan “Spirit of Monozukuri” award at the annual conference in Tennessee.

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automotive

Why We Are Opening a Plating Shop in Mexico

KC Jones Plating Co. explains why they are joining several other finishing shops in opening branches nin Mexico, the No. 1 exporter of automotive parts to the U.S.

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management

Legal Q&A: Antidumping

How do we compete with foreign governments for our automotive parts?

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Parts Cleaning

Cleaning Q&A: Cleaning for ISO 16232

Meeting the requirements of ISO 16232 for the automotive industry.

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Powder Coating

Lawrence Tech Students Share Designs Inspired by Axalta’s “Radiant Red”

LTU’s program established in 2007 at request of automotive industry manufacturers to help train and identify designers.

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Electrocoating

Electrocoat Q&A: Best Testing Practices

What are the best practices for testing an automotive electrocoat system?

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Electrocoating

First-Ever, All-Black Yacht Made Possible by Automotive Coatings

BASF says that fashion house Hugo Boss was determined to turn heads with a state-of-the art yacht that perfectly embodied their brand.

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