HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH
SPECIAL ISSUE ON AUTOMOTIVE
EcoDose2k for Automated Colour Matching of Bodywork Paints To achieve greater accuracy, repeatability and speed in its Milan laboratory’s colour matching activities for the refinish industry and to provide customers with high-quality coatings formulations for body parts, in line with its standards, PPG has opted for the Verind-Dürr EcoDose2k dosing and mixing technology which, thanks to specific colour change cycles, has also made it possible to optimize the environmental impact by reducing the consumption of solvents by 400kg per year.
W
ith the global refinish paint market expected to reach a value
In February, PPG installed an EcoDose2k device in its fully automated
of $12.29 billion by 2028 , manufacturers are investing in
colour matching laboratory in Milan (Italy). This new electronic system
cutting-edge technology to offer the industry new coatings
for dosing and mixing water-based and solvent-based paints was
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that not only are of high quality and environmentally friendly, but can
supplied by Verind SpA (Rodano, Milan), a company belonging to the
also be applied to car bodies to faithfully replicate the colour and
international group Dürr AG that specialises in designing innovative
characteristics of OEM paints. One of them is PPG, American multi-
technological solutions by integrating know-how, industrial systems
national company that has been developing paints, coatings and special
engineering, equipment, and ecotechnologies specific to painting,
materials for several market segments for 140 years. In 2021 it invested
coating, and water treatment processes.
more than $463 million (around 3% of its annual net sales) in the R&D departments and with over 3,500 engineers in more than 75 countries
Expertise and automation at the service of customers
it studies solutions to optimise its products and internal processes in
PPG’s Milan colour matching laboratory for the automotive refinish
order to satisfy the needs of the customers.
industry was upgraded in 2016 with the installation of two closed-loop automatic systems supporting the faithfully reproduction process of paint formulation for any vehicle brand submitted to PPG technicians.
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“Our activity requires specialised skills, previous experience, and
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The metal plates coated with PPG paints created with the automatic dosing and mixing technology from Verind-Dürr and EcoDose2k, Verind-Dürr’s automatic dosing and mixing equipment.
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