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2007-02-20 News Release
New automotive coatings
technology
A BASF Coatings world innovation has just been launched in an automotive
OEM coating technology for automotive surface finishes.
The company, BASF Coatings AG, has developed “Integrated Process
II”, a novel, highly efficient coating technology. For the new process,
the specially formulated basecoats combine all the functions of the primer,
such as stone chip protection and ultraviolet resistance.
Find Information and Suppliers of automotive
coatings.
The new technology meets the high standards for automotive finishes with
regard to appearance and functionality. For the automotive industry, this
means that the coating process is shortened thanks to the elimination
of the primer application section of the paint line and the primer oven.
These primer application facilities that are no longer needed can be used
to increase capacity. Reduced investment and operating costs, material
and energy savings, improved productivity, and eco-efficiency are other
advantages of the new BASF Coatings system technology.
The new system has been operating without a hitch, and was successfully
integrated into the MINI production line at the BMW Group Oxford, UK plant.
With this new system all of the basecoats used at the BMW Group Oxford
plant can be applied.
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BASF Coatings and BMW Group
employees worked together closely to realize the project
at the MINI plant in Oxford. Click
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BASF Coatings and BMW Group employees worked together closely to realize
the project at the MINI plant in Oxford. Featured right are, Dr. Duschek,
who put together an international BASF Coatings team including Michael
Richert (Material Development), Ralf Kebschull (Applications Specialist),
Dr. Jorge Wellmann (Launch Leader), Dr. Achim Gast (Account Manager BMW
Group), Paul Kelly (Technical Service Oxford plant), and Kevin Hayes (Account
Manager BMW Group UK), which cooperated closely with the team at the Oxford
plant. The development was kicked off in January 2004. By July 2005, the
first paints with the unique properties described above were ready to
go. The system was launched in what turned out to be a remarkably brief
development period, and the project has now been successfully wrapped
up.
BASF Coatings has been working and doing research on integrated processes
for over ten years and has constantly fine-tuned them to meet the customers'
needs. “With “Integrated Process II”, automotive paint
lines can be streamlined, costs cut, and the overall process simplified,
even at existing paint lines, and capacity can be expanded without complicated
and costly construction projects,” Project Manager Dr. Wolfgang
Duschek explains. At symposia and lectures that are attracting a great
deal of attention, including the most recent event in Bad Nauheim, Germany,
Dr. Duschek points out the significance of the innovation: “In the
automotive industry, coatings that are carefully matched to each other
are applied in order to accomplish various tasks based on the extremely
wide range of specifications encountered in automotive surface finishing.
Can such systems, which have proven themselves millions of times over
and which are truly cutting-edge in economic and ecological terms, be
perfected further, and can they comply with increasingly tight environmental
regulations? BASF Coatings’ answer to these questions is an unequivocal,
‘Yes.’”
The BASF Coatings Division develops, produces and markets a high-quality
range of innovative automotive OEM coatings, automotive refinishes and
industrial coatings as well as decorative paints, and also the processes
needed to apply them.
Integrated Process II has provided the BMW Group with huge advantages.
Using the infrastructure of the plant’s primer application area,
which the new technology had rendered obsolete, the plant designers installed
a second basecoat/clearcoat line. The goal was to increase production
from 200,000 vehicles to 240,000 vehicles per year. Dr. Duschek praised
the teamwork: "We worked with the BMW Group crew for many months,
including many weekend and night shifts, in order to make this project
successful. It attests to the fact that with the right ideas, perfect
teamwork, and great partnership, great successes come about together."
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