Articles Tagged with ''Automotive Coatings''

A lot has changed in automotive coatings, and the premier automotive coatings conference, Future Of Coatings Under Study (FOCUS), has been helping coatings formulators to stay on the leading edge of technology.

The Valspar Corp. announced that its Automotive division has begun a major extension of its Technology Center in Lelystad, the Netherlands.

Enviro-Prime^® EPIC electrocoat uses patented metal-free catalyst technology with superior smoothness to achieve world-class appearance, improved corrosion resistance and thin-film pretreatment performance.

The BMW Group saves 12,000 tons of CO2 annually during automotive production at its Munich plant by eliminating one step from the paint process.

BASF's Coatings division has won the German Federal Ecodesign Award.

Axalta Coating Systems announced that a new manufacturing plant for high-performance automobile, commercial vehicle and industrial coatings will be constructed in Nanjing, China.

The collaboration between BASF and Jaguar Land Rover is expanding globally. BASF will supply 37 unique colors for the Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations for 2017 models.

Axalta Coating Systems has formally opened its regional office in Dubai’s Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority.

This article highlights Benda-Lutz® COMPAL WS, a new range of nonhazardous, aluminum pigment concentrates designed specifically for long-term stability in waterborne coatings and inks.

As with all effect pigments, the use of polychromatic pigments requires an intensive examination of illumination and observation geometries, if useful and interesting color creations are to be produced.