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INDUSTRIAL FINISHING: AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS
PPG LineGuard application.
to offer efficient solutions for automotive manufacturing. These
raw materials reduce scrap rates and defects in oven-cure
systems and allow for the painting of temperature-sensitive
substrates. Innovative hardener technologies also enable a faster
cure without sacrificing performance or appearance, while lowtemperature
waterborne adhesives offer a seamless assembly for
automotive parts, the company says.
With this efficiency in mind, in September, PPG featured
coatings innovations for OEM vehicles at SURCAR Detroit 2021.
The company's focus was on streamlining coating and curing
processes, enhancing vehicle appearance, and accelerating the
development of new colors.
A new PPG solution that reduces the complexity and cost of
curing vehicles that feature mixed materials and complex joints
is PPG ENVIRO-PRIME electrocoat and PPG CORABOND
structural adhesive. Together, they reduce the curing temperature
differential across each vehicle. This approach, which eliminates
the need to overbake some areas/joints to avoid underbaking
others, helps vehicle manufacturers reduce oven temperatures,
process complexity and unit cost, PPG says.
PPG also promoted the phased development of a premium
paint shop, at SURCAR. The efficiency and quality benefits of
an approach through which vehicle manufacturers and their
equipment and coatings providers define targets, evaluate
product/process options and determine operating parameters in
advance of vehicle launch are well-documented.
The future of color development is digital and PPG has
created a digital styling platform to help automotive designers
" significantly accelerate the color development process " . This
new capability enables OEM design teams to collaborate with
PPG experts directly, remotely and in real-time. Prior to this
program, the process of finalizing a color based on a designer's
initial concept could require up to nine months, the company
says.
" Performance in the automotive coatings segment extends
beyond developing world-class products, " says Keith Rigby,
Associate Director, Marketing Communications, Automotive
OEM Coatings, PPG. " It requires more than a proven record of
helping global automotive manufacturers sell more vehicles,
reduce costs and meet increasingly aggressive sustainability
objectives. It transcends achieving mastery of the science of
color. "
CONSOLIDATION
Lastly, consolidation of resources is a trend being implemented
across all areas of the automotive value chain, from suppliers, to
various tiers and beyond.
" At Covestro, we don't believe that you should have to sacrifice
your innovation in the name of consolidation, " the company says.
" With our global cutting-edge research, worldwide experts, and
regional innovation hubs, we keep our customers at the core
of our work and develop tailor-made solutions for regionally
focused needs. "
PPG's Rigby agrees that as a supplier to the automotive
industry, innovative solutions
are often created with the
customer.
" The benefits of partnering with PPG can be found in
everything we do - from our status as the premier single-source
coatings supplier for every vehicle surface, to our unsurpassed
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investments in product and application technologies, to our global
manufacturing presence, to the hundreds of exceptionally skilled
PPG team members who help bring our customers' vehicles to life
in manufacturing facilities on every continent, " says Rigby.
" Whether the challenge is
reducing emissions, enabling
increased use of lightweight materials and mixed metals, ensuring
precise color match across multiple application environments,
or cutting energy costs and resource consumption, our people
are listening, innovating and delivering solutions that drive
success. "
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