Axalta’s portfolio of electrocoats, thermoset and thermoplastic powder coatings, fire intumescent liquid coatings, and casting resins are specifically designed for electric vehicle (EV) battery applications.
Automotive technology makes cars safer, more capable and increasingly enjoyable to drive. However, the impact of high-tech coatings often gets overlooked as an instrumental part of helping make such advancements happen. Here's a look at some of the coating innovations you should know about that push automotive progress forward.
More than 4 million vehicles are pretreated annually with Henkel's next-generation metal pretreatment process, which recently received the second-place award in the sustainability category of the 2021 Altair Enlighten Awards.
This study reveals the degradation mechanism of a typical acrylic melamine automotive clearcoat caused by bird droppings. It was found that natural bird droppings and pancreatin are able to catalyze the hydrolytic cleavage of etheric and esteric linkages of acrylic melamine clearcoats, leaving etched areas and local defects as well as a decreased appearance on the clearcoat surface.
