Automotive and commercial vehicles

11NOV

An Innovative Cooling White Paint Could Reduce the Need for Air Conditioning Inside Buildings

Engineers from Purdue University created a white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their surroundings, without consuming energy.

04NOV

Scientists Develop Antimicrobial and Anti-Reflective Coating by Studying Insects' Eyes

Scientists from Russia and Switzerland have developed a biodegradable nanocoating with antimicrobial and anti-reflective properties by studying the nanostructures covering the corneas of the eyes of small fruit flies.

20OTT

Autonomous Driving Now Has Silver Metallic Pigments

Until now, conventional silver metallic paints have represented a challenge in the autonomous driving field where it is essential that paints have a high degree of transparency. However, ECKART has now launched on the market pigments for silver metallic color shades specifically for use in this sector.

12OTT

BASF Releases CODE-X, its 2020-2021 Automotive Color Trends Collection

The 2020-2021 Automotive Color Trends collection by BASF aims at representing the blend of the physical and digital worlds in a constantly changing environment, playing with concepts that intertwine surface, texture and colour.

28SET

A Renowned Car Manufacturer Towards a Circular Economy with Cortec's Eco-Corr Film

With the aim of reducing the amount of plastic consumption, the Czech subsidiary of one of the world's three largest car manufacturers is testing Cortec Corporation's biodegradable corrosion inhibiting film.

27AGO

Dürr Among the Partners for the New Industrial Cloud of Volkswagen and Amazon Web Services

Dürr will be among the partners for the new Industrial Cloud of Volkswagen and Amazon Web Services, providing two applications from the DXQ software.

03AGO

Automatic Application Lines, Paint Spraying and Coating Machines for Plastic Coating

Plastic parts accompany us in everyday life. But plastic is not the same. The variety of material composition and shape is very wide. The demands on the finished surface are different too, so introducing all possible finishing solutions, designed by Venjakob would go too far.

24LUG

Dürr Develops New Paint Booth Concept EcoProBooth

Dürr has launched EcoProBooth, a new paint booth concept which combines interior and exterior painting in one box.

22LUG

Asahi Kasei Launches New Engineered Resin Series SoForm

Asahi Kasei has introduced the new engineered resin series SoForm of the Thermylene Brand, a Class-A surface material with low emissions and scratch resistance.

24GIU

BASF Develops AUVOT, A New Digital Tool to Display Automotive Coatings

AUVOT, which stands for Automotive Vehicles of Trends, is a new tool developed by BASF's Coatings division to support OEMs to visualize the effect of colours on automotive surfaces with different geometries.

11GIU

Asahi Kasei Survey Shows Increasing Need Towards Functional Premium Surfaces in the Automotive Industry

According to a new survey by Asahi Kasei Europe, automotive interior features such as premium, hygienic and sound-absorbing surfaces, will become a differentiating element and influence buying decisions.

10GIU

The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 team has a new paint design and a new colour

Spies Hecker, a global coatings brand from Axalta, presents the new paint design and new colour of the new single-seaters from the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 team.

28MAG

Axalta Renews Contract as Official Team Supplier with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team

Axalta, with its Spies Hecker refinish brand, re-signed the Official Team Supplier contract with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team.

29APR

Lotus Chooses Dürr to Modernize its Paint Shop

Lotus, a British sports car manufacturer, relies on the high quality and efficiency of Durr's technologies to automate its body painting facility at its British headquarters in Hethel.

23APR

EcoPaintJet Has Been Awarded the German Innovation Award

Dürr Systems AG won the German Innovation Award in the "Large Enterprise" category for its EcoPaintJet robotic painting system. This revolutionary innovation for the razor-sharp painting of cars and other products has several benefits such as 100% of the paint is applied on the surface without waste, easier and faster two-tone paint application process, more energy-efficient and resource-friendly way than before.