Anniversary: 20 years of waterborne basecoats at BASF Coatings AG a coating system goes round the world
Anniversary: 20 years of waterborne basecoats at BASF Coatings AG a coating system goes round the world
BASF Coatings AG is celebrating an important anniversary: in December 2006,the company will have been manufacturing waterborne basecoats at its Würzburg site for 20 years. In the laboratories there, BASF researchers developed the innovative waterborne paint system that proceeded to conquer the world. “The environmentally friendly waterborne basecoat technology is an important milestone in the history of automotive OEM coatings and for BASF Coatings as a whole,” says Dr Thomas Krüger, Würzburg Site Manager.
The paint system developed at Würzburg passed the required tests with style and received the approval for use on the production lines of the Bochum Opel factory in December 1986. In the following years, it has been introduced in the production lines of almost all well-known automobile manufacturers. An important further development is the use of the so-called integrated process,which includes a new waterborne basecoat system that also fulfils the function of the primer. This innovative technology considerably shortens the car body coating process and thus saves time and money.
