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01/04/2005
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Toyota, Daihatsu and Kansai Paint claim to have developed a water-borne coating technology that reduces emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 70 per cent and carbon dioxide by 15 per cent compared with traditional coating processes.
Conventional processes use water-borne primer or base coat to reduce VOCs with low temperature baking employed to minimise CO2 emissions. The challenge of reducing both at the same time remains.
The result of the four-year research effort is said to be the world’s first water-borne one-coat solid coating, and Japan’s first water-borne three wet metallic coating. These new processes were first applied at the new Oita (Nakatsu) plant operated Daihatsu Auto Body, a Daihatsu subsidiary, at the end of last year.
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Author
Roger Bishop
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