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Painting complex for railway equipment
As madeinrussia reported, a Twer-based company for transport engineering equipment and components has recently commissioned a new painting complex with a manual monorail conveyor.
Virtual Car Color Configurator launched
Clariant has recently released its new Automotive Styling Shades 2025 Trendbook, including an interactive digital version for the first time.
Approaches to car sequencing in the paint shop
Researchers of the Silesian University of Technology, Poland have recently engaged the problem of car sequencing. Although it has been considered in the literature many times, it is mostly done with the...
New automatic painting line
Dürr is recently installing an automatic painting line for Nordex, based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Nordex has been producing vehicles in Uruguay since 1962 for different OEMs. The company contracted Dürr...
New head of environmental technology division Clean Technology Systems
On July 1, 2021, Ken Zak becomes the new head of the Dürr Group’s Clean Technology Systems division. He succeeds Dr. Daniel Schmitt, whose internal move sees him join the Board of Management of HOMAG...
Life evaluation of organic coatings on hydraulic metal structures
Researchers of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have recently focused on the performance of organic coatings. In a joined research project with - among others - the Shandong University...
New paint shop for Lotus
Lotus has recently reached another milestone in its Lotus’ Vision80 journey as Emira pre-production gets underway. With the investment in UK facilities, now amounting to more than 110 Million Euro, new...
New Managing Director in the VDMA Air Handling Technology Association
Robert Hild will take over as Managing Director of the VDMA's Air Handling Technology Association on 1 June. He succeeds Dr. Thomas Schräder. Hild had already been deputy managing director of the association...
PPG acquires automotive coatings manufacturer
PPG recently announced its acquisition of Cetelon Lackfabrik GmbH, a manufacturer of coatings for automotive and light truck wheel applications. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed....
Paint thickness determination
Research of the University of West Bohemia recently focused on a fast contactless measurement of paint thickness non-uniformity using flash pulse thermography.
New BMW battery production
The BMW Group has recently launched series production of battery modules at its plants in Leipzig and Regensburg thereby expanding its e-drive production network. The new production facility includes a...
Ecolromat 2021: Digital meeting place for rail vehicle coaters
On 17 June 2021, experts in industrial coating technology will present innovations in rail vehicle coating. The presentations will be done in German or English and subtitled vice versa. The topics covered...
Special technology for Factory Zero
The production site in Detroit-Hamtramck - named Factory Zero - is the company`s first assembly plant dedicated completely to electric vehicles. Gallagher-Kaiser supplies a new turn-key paint shop including...
Automotive paint markets
A recently published report summarizes information on automotive paint markets. The report answers questions like: What is the market size and forecast of the Global Automotive Paints Market? Which are...