PPG has formed a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for a research initiative aimed at developing energy-efficient coatings systems for the automotive industry.
Thom Bell has been around the finishing industry for a long time, and thought he had seen it all. He was wrong.
Editor’s note: Huzaifa Matawala is the president of Matawala Group of Industries, a paint recycling consultant at Regent Paints, and the CEO of the Paint Foundation in New York, a 501c3 that has an innovative approach to recycling paint waste and reusing paints in an environmentally-conscious way.
Automotive tier supplier Mahle Behr had a situation on its hands when only one certified paint company met its rigorous heavy truck specification for underhood black paint on aluminum, and the coating was increasingly difficult to work with. The search began for another paint supplier that could be certified to this demanding spec.
Akriti Agarwal is the global paint and coatings manager at Mercury Marine in the Greater Milwaukee area.
At a workshop in the north of Santiago de Chile, a group of young people are filling in car panels with putty and sanding them down ready for painting.
A finishing system manufacturer and conveyor specialist worked together to deliver innovative paint finishing solutions.
A Black Hawk helicopter going through a recapitalization process at Corpus Christi Army Depot is the Army’s first aircraft to receive an undercoat unlike others in the aviation fleet.
We recently did a survey of Industrial Coaters on LinkedIn to determine the pressures they were experiencing on their business. The first question dealt with the common defects they experience.
For spray booth operators, maintaining a stable temperature in the workspace is more than a matter of comfort. Every kind of spray and finish application has an ideal temperature and humidity range based on the specific process and compounds involved. Most applications give operators a little wiggle room when it comes to climate control, but straying outside of this range can have a serious impact on cost and quality.
At the beginning of the automotive industry about 100 years ago, cars were painted with a varnish-like product that was brushed onto the vehicle surfaces; this coating was sanded and smoothed, and then the varnish was reapplied and refinished to establish several layers of the coating.
Changing your spray paint booth’s exhaust filters can be both costly and time-consuming for high-production industrial manufacturers and aircraft finishers.
Axalta, a leader in liquid and powder coatings, announced that the iconic No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE, driven by William Byron, will showcase the company's 2020 Global Automotive Color of the Year, Axalta Sea Glass, at this year's DAYTONA 500.
FANUC America, a supplier of robotics and other machinery, held a grand opening celebration at its new 461,000-square-foot North Campus robotics and automation facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on Oct. 22.
DeVilbiss Automotive Refinishing, a Carlisle Fluid Technologies brand, designed its DV1 clearcoat spray gun to provide consistency and optimization in spraying clearcoats to give users more comfort and control, while delivering a glass-like, mirror finish.
Lesta has entered the U.S. finishing market as LestaUSA to allow manufacturers of any size to incorporate robotic finishing technology without the need for complicated programming or teach pendants.
The immersion method of applying a coating to an object presents a central challenge: predicting the thickness of the layer that will cover the object.
