Axalta Report Unveils Color Trends Shaping the Automotive Industry
The report showcases unique color combinations such as Comeback Duo and Smart Duo, and the emerging global automotive trends and latest innovations in color science driving them.
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Carlisle Fluid Technologies Acquires Ecco Finishing
Ecco’s products are used in a variety of application settings, primarily in the automotive, ceramics, leather, wood and plastics industries.
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500°F Clean Room Truck Oven Eliminates Particle Contaminants
Grieve’s No. 970 applications include sterilization, depyrogenation, curing and drying.
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SpringCo in Action with Automotive Ecoat, Powder Coatings
SpringCo Metal Coating in Cleveland, Ohio, coats truck parts in a massive 11-acre, 250,000-square-foot facility.
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Dürr Universal Celebrates 60 years in Noise Control, Exhaust and Filtration Solutions
Dürr Universal is part of the Dürr Group, which offers paint and final assembly systems for the automotive industry.
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Auto Technology Testing Equipment Designed for Varied Environments
Typical testing calls out for standard and industry test methods.
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PriceWalgren and Jessup Systems Provide Custom Surface Finishing Equipment
Industries served by PriceWalgren and Jessup Systems includes automotive, aerospace/military, agricultural and industrial marketplace as well as job shops.
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Chemetall to Acquire Polymer Ventures's Automotive Paint Detackification Business
The paint detackification technology is a process used to capture and neutralize paint overspray.
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PPG to Acquire Global Coatings Manufacturer Whitford Worldwide
Whitford specializes in manufacturing low-friction, wear-resistant coatings for industrial applications in automotive, aerospace, energy and construction products.
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To Improve Auto Coatings, New Tests Do More Than Scratch the Surface
Researchers describe three versions of a fast, reliable laboratory method for simulating scratching processes on automobile clearcoats.
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Mike Boss Named Dürr Systems CEO and President
For the last nine years, Boss was chief engineer in the Ford Motor Company global paint engineering division.
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Eisenmann Builds First Skidless Paint Shop for Electric Vehicles
Eliminating the need for heavy skids improves the movement of car bodies, and the individual shuttles (dubbed “Locs”) travel along a rail in the floor.
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Technology Advancements for Select Key Hard Chromium Applications
This paper presents recent industry specific hard chromium technology advancements such as meeting the needs of the automotive and hydraulic industries. Examples for additional improvement potential are shown to simplify the operation and make hard chromium plating even more reliable in its specific needs for a wide range of industries served.
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Dürr Receives Largest Order in its History from Toyota
In addition to its EcoReflect paint application quality control system, Dürr is supplying a new paint shop at Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky, plant with large paint booths and small booths/work decks, ovens, and the Ecopure RL exhaust-air purification system.
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Dürr Seven-Axis Robots Will Paint Electric Vehicles in China
The EcoRP E043i is said to be more mobile than six-axis painting robots, with an additional joint that extends its working area and allows painting of hard-to-access areas common to the interiors of automobile bodies.
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Doerken Adds Technical Sales Rep for Automotive OEMs
Rick Babik has joined Doerken Corp. USA as an OEM technical sales representative to work directly with OEMs in the automotive industry. The company also has added Robert Muterspaugh as a technical specialist working with customers and licensees.
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Flawless Finish? How Digital Microscopy Is Transforming the Automotive Paint Shop
Digital microscopes help engineers quantify the quality of a paint finish, and this helps with both quality control and technology development.
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Software Helps Ford Design for Plating Quality
The automaker says Elsyca PlatingManager software has enhanced its production process.
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Advances in Decorative PVD Chromium Coatings for Polymer Substrates
This article reviews a two-layer, selective coating process which incorporates a specially developed UV-cured paint base coating with a sub-micron thick PVD chromium top coating. It illustrates the coating’s testing protocols of automotive manufacturers and the necessities of controlling the stresses within the coating matrix.
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Researchers Create Superstrong Aluminum Alloys for Automotive, Aerospace Applications
The alloy is lightweight and possibly stronger than stainless steel, but it provides flexibility that stainless steel does not in many applications.
#aerospace #automotive