Information about the spray finishing and spray coating market, including the latest developments and company news.
Spray painting courses and training programmes are designed for individuals wishing to improve their skills in conventional or HVLP spray gun techniques, airless spray painting, automotive spray painting and industrial spray painting, among others. With the growing demand for skilled professionals in coating applications, paint formulation and surface finishing, the importance of specialised training cannot…
35-metre-high paint shop sets standards in lean production With 66 robots performing numerous tasks, the new paint shop of company Skoda Auto in Mlada Boleslav can be considered as one of the most modern and sustainable facilities of its kind in Europe. About 168,000 car bodies are painted in a three-shift pattern annually. The plant’s…
The British sports car manufacturer Lotus has contracted the German company Dürr to install an automated, high-efficiency top coat line at its British headquarters in Hethel. Currently all Lotus cars are painted manually. High process efficiency while maintaining the high quality of the current manual spraying process have been the main requirements for the new…
32 EcoRP L033 paint robots apply primer as well as base and clear coat in directly successive steps From pretreatment and cathodic electrocoating to fully automatic paint application Ford Motor Company factory in Sanand Tailored to the customer Fewer pollutants, lower cost per unit, higher paint finish quality: In the new Ford Motor Company factory at…
Shanghai General Motors’ paint shop upgraded 24 painting robots, 14 km of paint circulation lines Now suitable for water-based paints € 30 million project Dürr has upgraded a 17-year-old paint shop for automaker Shanghai General Motors (SGM) in record time, making it more environment-friendly. In just six weeks a large proportion of the existing painting equipment was…
Graco Inc. continues its acquisition spree and bought four (4) further companies for a combined cash purchase price of USD 185 million. The company acquired GeoBlaster Equipment Sales & Services Inc. and Brazil-based Multimaq-Pistolas Equipamentos Para Pintura Ltda (Multimaq)o in December 2014. The company now agreed to acquire High Pressure Equipment (HiP) and White Knight…
The German engineering company Durr has received its largest order for application technology ever. A total of 174 robots are to be installed in three phases which will increase Tesla’s Freemont painting capacity to around 500,000 cars per year. The paint shop will be ready by end of 2015. The paint robots will apply automotive…
Dürr, the world market leader in application technology for the automotive industry, now offers products for the application of paint and high-viscosity materials not only for the automotive industry but also for additional sectors. The new target group “Industrial Products” includes industries such as plastics, wagon construction, shipbuilding, ceramics, wood and furniture. The industrial product…