UCC’s Advanced Underwater Coatings System utilizes TFT Nuclear’s Bio-Dur 560 underwater coatings
product which has undergone extensive testing and has
been in use in nuclear facilities worldwide for more than 15
years. This coatings system has proven ideal for underwater
epoxy coating for large areas, including concrete spent fuel
basins.
PPG’s window products featuring Duranar
coatings awarded at the 2012 Glass Magazine
Awards
PPG Industries announced that a new series of window products
featuring Duranar coatings was among the winners of the 2012
Glass Magazine Awards announced earlier this month. The
awards recognize the best products and glass applications in 18
categories in the commercial, retail and fabrication markets as
voted by a panel of judges.
Duranar coatings are offered as an optional finish for frames
on the EnerGsave G-500 Window Series from Peerless Products,
Inc., which was named in Glass Magazine as the year’s “most innovative commercial window”. Peerless Products customers can
order window frames finished with a two-coat Duranar system
engineered to provide long-term color and gloss retention in normal building environments.
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Formulated by PPG with proprietary resins, pigments and solvents, Duranar coatings have a 40-year track record of performance in high-visibility metal architectural applications such
as building panels, curtain walls, window frames and storefronts
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To determine winners, the Glass Magazine staff compiled
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Dürr installs a total of 155 painting robots at
Volkswagen in Bratislava
Machinery and plant engineer Dürr has installed a total of 155
painting and application robots at VW in Bratislava in 2011 and
2012. Forty-five robots are for a new paint shop at the Slova-kian auto plant. Dürr has installed another 110 robots to modernize two existing paint lines, on which VW will be able to paint
both the body exterior and interior fully automatically in the future; the lines are due to be brought into operation by June 2012.
The robot orders for VW Bratislava are worth € 36 million.
Besides the painting robots, Dürr is also supplying the complete application and paint supply systems, featuring high-tech
products such as electrostatic high-speed rotating atomizers,
paint-saving color changers, and software. The scope of supply
also includes robots for welded seam sealing and for applying
underbody protection. In addition to the luxury SUVs Volkswagen Touareg and Audi Q7, bodies for the Porsche Cayenne, the
new compacts Volkswagen up!, ŠKODA Citigo, and SEAT Mii
are produced in Bratislava. An increase in production capacity to
400,000 vehicles is planned for this year.
“We won the order from VW on our good technical per-
formance in terms of quality of finish, paint consumption, and
total cost of ownership,” said Ralf Dieter, Dürr AG’s CEO. “Bot-
tom line, our technology increases production efficiency in
Bratislava measurably.”
The Application Technology division, in which Dürr concen-
trates its robot and application systems activities, aims to grow
its sales revenues from €407 million to over €500 million in
2012. Sales were already increased by 52 percent in 2011. The
driver is the buoyant demand in the automotive industry, which
has continued so far in 2012. Among the main investment mo-
tives in the automobile industry are the need for additional pro-
duction capacity and the increasing automation of the painting
process. For the group as a whole, Dürr expects sales revenues in
excess of €2 billion in 2012.
AkzoNobel Powder Coatings receives Innovation
Award
AkzoNobel Powder Coatings North America received the Haworth 2011 Supplier Innovation Award for developing its Inter-pon F2010 furniture product/technology.
The F2010 technology is the next generation of coatings developed for Haworth’s product lines. This technology has unsurpassed color and gloss stability across many cure ranges, as
well as improved hardness and scratch resistance over the previ-
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