Inès Melamies is a journalist and owner of Blue Rondo International, a consulting company specializing in marketing, public relations and communications. She can be reached at 011.49.2224.989.7588 or info@bluerondo.de.
Car manufacturers are forever placing greater demands on the quality and environmental credentials of paint processes for the plastic components used in their vehicle interiors.
If additive-free plastic materials cannot or can only poorly be bonded or coated in spite of a clean surface, this is most probably due to their low polarity and the resultant low surface energy.
A new atmospheric plasma technology has been developed to eliminate common problems and improve the quality of the finish, thereby driving down the number of rejects. The technology can produce ultrafine cleaning and high activation on a wide range of surfaces, including plastics, metal and glass; these benefits, in turn, can promote the optimum adhesion of paints and coatings.
