Globalization of Waterborne Coatings in the Automotive Industry

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Dössel, Karl-F, author.

Conference Name:

International Body Engineering Conference & Exposition (1998-09-29 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1998

Summary:

10 years ago Opel and VW Germany were the first to use waterborne basecoats in regular car production because of environmental reasons. Today waterborne metallic basecoats have a market share of 90% in German car manufacturing, 50% in Europe, and are used in 85 OEM plants worldwide.New developments show improvements of appearance and process window, making waterborne coatings usable at temperatures from 20 - 30 °C, relative humidities of 70 ± 10 %, and altitudes from sea level to 2000 m.A novel low cost conversion concept was developed for the introduction of waterborne basecoats into existing (solventborne) paint shops

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Publisher Number:

982377

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license