General Motors is making a $600-million investment in its Fairfax Assembly and Stamping Plant, including the construction of a new 450,000-square-foot paint shop, the installation of a new stamping press and other upgrades.
The study reveals that incorporating nanoclay improves humidity resistance, VDA cyclic corrosion over mild steel substrate and acetic acid spray corrosion over aluminum substrate.
CABOT CORP. launched EMPEROR® 1600 and EMPEROR® 1200 premium carbon black pigments for coatings applications where exceptional color and superior processability are primary objectives.
The trade-off in the yellow and orange color space between the weatherability, heat stability and opacity of inorganic pigments versus the chromaticity, brightness and tint strength of organic colorants, in light of the decrease in use of pigments based on deprecated metals, has opened an opportunity for new colored pigment chemistries.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. has developed the Honda Smart Ecological Paint (Honda S.E. Paint) process, a painting technology that eliminates a middle coating process from a commonly used four-coat/three-bake auto-body painting process to a three-coat/two-bake water-based painting process.