Gary S. Vasilash

Gary S. Vasilash Transportation Editor

Powder Coating

Retroreflective Powder Coating Q&A

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Insights into how PPG’s retroflective powder coating works.

Liquid Coating

Dürr Develops Printing-Like Applicator for Paint

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Advancing the ability to apply paint to vehicles without the need for masking—and with no overspray.

Liquid Coating

PPG Reveals the Most Popular Auto Colors

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Let’s admit it: there isn’t a whole lot of change when people show up at their dealerships to buy a new set of wheels.

Liquid Coating

Audi Goes to the Matte

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Adding colors that are in demand by buyers of the brand’s sportier vehicles.

Liquid Coating

A BMW That’s Like a Kindle

By: Gary S. Vasilash

BMW reveals BMW iX Flow, which is wrapped with a laser-cut material that uses an electrophoretic material, or “E Ink.”

Liquid Coating

Axalta Reports Most Popular Car Color

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Axalta Coating Systems 69th annual Global Automotive Color Popularity Report, reveals the most popular automotive color in North America.

Liquid Coating

Jeep Extends Limited-Run Paint Color

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Recent Jeep Wrangler sales illustrate the importance of paint to vehicle sales.
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Liquid Coating

Porsche Expands Paint Palette

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Because some people want their very own color — and are willing to pay for it.

Liquid Coating

Nissan Launches New Manufacturing Initiative

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Lower-temp curing paint and post-paint robotic inspection are part of it.

Liquid Coating

What Is the 2022 Color of the Year?

By: Gary S. Vasilash

The aesthetic team at AkzoNobel thinks that after a year of darkness as associated with the pandemic is giving way to blue skies.

Liquid Coating

Dürr Completes Highly Automated Paint Shop for Ford

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Facility not only uses tech, but takes advantage of the environment for the ovens.
#automotive

Liquid Coating

New Robot for Painting Applications Launched

By: Gary S. Vasilash

Yaskawa Motoman MPX1400 engineered for things from painting appliances to automotive instrument panels
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