Axalta Coating Systems has presented new innovative, high performance and sustainable coating technology at the 27th International Conference on Automotive Body Finishing (SURCAR) in Shanghai. 

Established in 1964, SURCAR brings together an international audience of decision-makers and experts in automotive and other commercial vehicle body painting from over 20 countries.

Axalta demonstrated the latest coating products and systems on offer to OEM customers in China. These included; waterborne 3-Wet, high solids 3-Wet and Eco-concept primer-less coating systems all designed to deliver full layer performance with a simplified coating process. Different systems have been developed for different customer specifications but all share the ability to reduce the number of bake cycles in the coating process. The potential benefits for OEMs include improved productivity, lowered VOC emissions, reduced energy consumption and lower investment costs, while still offering high quality finish on vehicles.

Axalta’s also showed its ElectroShield-27 E-coat which can provide even further efficiencies for OEMs by reducing unit material consumption by 20%.

Axalta also focused on its coating brand for heavy duty trucks, Imron. This is applied at more heavy duty truck assembly plants than any other brand. The 2K polyurethane formulation supports environmental goals because it can be cured at almost half the temperature of the traditional 1K products

Axalta’s Dr. Harald Paulussen, Technical Product and Application Engineering Manager for Axalta’s commercial transportation business, explained the company’s approach to the heavy duty truck industry, noting, “Challenges facing China have motivated Axalta to provide the heavy duty truck industry with coating solutions that are aimed to deliver improved energy efficiency, higher productivity, reduced costs, and an overall smaller environmental footprint.”