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ITW Gema becomes Gema Switzerland GmbH

The powder application system manufacturer ITW Gema is the new competence centre for electrostatic powder coat-

ing within the Graco Group. As part of its move from ITW to Graco, the international company has been renamed Gema

Switzerland GmbH. At the same time, a new lo-go and a new corporate design will be intro-duced to give the Gema

brand a fresh, modern image, while retaining links to Gema’s tradit ional roots. The company ’s website (www.gemapowdercoat¬ing.com) has also been redesigned. Despite all these changes, the company’s sales and dealer networks and its customer contacts will remain the same.

Award for Dürr Ecoclean

In mid-June 2012, Dürr Ecoclean received a CMJ Machine-Building and Metal-Working Award for the development

of its EcoCBase W3 cleaning system. This award, which was presented for the �rst time in eight categories in 2012 by the China National Machine Tool Corporation in conjunc-tion with the CMJ Chinamac Journal (a specialist technical periodical) and Adsale Publishing House, recognises inno-vative technologies and outstanding achievements in the �elds of machine tool building and toolmaking. The pow-erful, cost-e�ective machine uses innovative processes to produce improved cleaning results and increased energy e�ciency. The award ceremony took place on 13 June as part of Cimes, the China International Machine Tool & Tools Exhibition, in Beijing.

Coventya Group takes over Molecular Technology

The Coventya Group, a manufacturer of speciality chemicals for the electroplating and surface treatment industry, has

acquired Molecular Technology Ltd., based in Wolverhampton in the UK. The company, which was founded in 1999, special-ises in electrocoating products. These are currently sold in more than 20 countries and are mainly used for decorative ap-plications. Coventya expects to bene�t in particular from the company’s expertise in processes for copper-nickel-chrome and precious metals, which will most importantly allow it to access new markets. In the next few weeks Molecular Technol-ogy will be renamed Coventya Ltd and, as a new Coventya Group site, will supply the complete Coventya product range on the British market.

New painting plant for coaches and city buses in Pune, India

India is the second largest market for buses in the world, with 50,000 buses being purchased every

year. Since 2008, Daimler has introduced two coach models there, together with a city bus in the �rst quarter of 2012. The chassis are supplied by Mer-cedes-Benz in Stuttgart. MCV India, its global body-building partner, assembles and paints the bodies at the Mercedes-Benz India plant in Chakan, Pune. In order to meet the required high quality standards for the finish of the buses, MCV (Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles) once again chose a painting plant from Lutro consisting of three large spray booths to accommodate the planned volume of 900 buses per year in India. Lutro has supplied sev-eral painting plants to MCV facilities throughout the world over recent decades.

Eng. Karim Ghabbour (second from left), owner of MCV, and Hartmut Schick (second from right), head of the Daimler bus division, visiting the new paint shop. One of the three Lutro spray booths can be seen in the background.

Markus Reissmann, head of Dürr-Ecoclean Shanghai, presents the award-winning cleaning machine at the Cimes trade fair in Beijing.

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Dürr continues its success story in China

Acting as general contractor, Dürr is building a further Eco+Paintshop in Ningbo for SVW Shanghai, the joint venture between the Volkswa-

gen Group and the Chinese SAIC Group. The new paint shop, which is de-signed to use a primer-free process and water-based paint, can produce up to 62 units per hour. The contract has a value of hundreds of millions of euros and was awarded in the fourth quarter of 2011. The paint shop will come into operation in August 2014 and will paint vehicles for Volkswagen and Skoda. Dürr’s EcoDryScrubber, the innovative system for the dry separation of paint overspray, will once again be used in Ningbo. The company has chosen its rotating dip-coating system RoDip M for pre-treatment and electrocoating. Dürr is equipping the lines for underbody protection with four robot stations that have a total of 26 EcoRS robots and application systems for automatic seam sealing, underbody protec-tion and sill coating. In addition, an automatic cavity �ood system for rust-proo�ng body cavities forms part of the new plant. Before the base coat and clear coat are applied, the exterior of the bodies are cleaned with sword brushes by two EcoRS 60 robots. On each of the two lines, 32 EcoRP L133 painting robots paint the vehicle interiors and exteriors in a fully au-tomated process. The EcoLCC linear colour changer used for the base coats signi�cantly reduces paint wastage when the colour is changed.

Chemetall opens a new production plant in India

Chemetall has invested in a second state-of-the-art production plant in the city of Chennai in India. The new facility will substantially in-crease the company’s current capacity in the region. “To keep pace with the growth dynamics of the Indian market, we have built our new facility in the heart of the automotive industry,” explains Asis Ray, managing director of Chemetall-Rai. The new plant is intended to meet the increasing demand for local supply in the rapidly growing market. “The investment in our new plant is a further milestone in Chemetall’s expansion strategy and it clearly demonstrates the im-portance of the Indian market for us,” says Joris Merckx, managing director of Chemetall GmbH. Recently the company has acquired the speciality chemical business of Gramos, one of the major local sup-pliers of surface treatment technology to the Indian automotive in-dustry. Chennai is the centre of an important region for the vehicle industry and its suppliers.

New BASF coating technology centre in India and new application centre in Mexico

Positive Demand at Home and Abroad

Despite a falling share of world trade, Ger-man suppliers continue to dominate the

world market in surface technology. Since the crisis of 2009, the surface technology industry in Germany has made a good recovery. In 2010, production reached a volume of around EUR 1.3 billion (+4 %).The world trade (after exports) in surface tech-nology amounted to EUR 2.8 billion (+27 %) in 2010. Because of poor growth in German ex-ports, direct deliveries from Germany to other countries fell to 20 % of the total volume of world trade. In contrast, Chinese exports grew signi�cantly. For the �rst time, China has moved up to second place in the list of countries that export surface technology, with a 17 % share of the world market. However, German suppliers’ expertise in building plants and machinery means that their worldwide importance is much greater, because local suppliers play an essen-tial role in machinery construction projects.German companies are still the leaders when it comes to technology and they are continuing to exploit opportunities on the international market. German suppliers and those from else-where in Europe are also �nding that new op-portunities are opening up because of their ex-tensive expertise in environmentally friendly surface technologies. This expertise is largely a result of the environmental regulations in Eu-rope, which have become increasingly stringent over recent years. As a result, process technolo-gies involving integrated measures, such as the use of low-solvent or solvent-free coatings, ap-plication systems with high levels of e�ciency, recovery of overspray and other circulation-based processes, together with follow-up sys-tems for recovering energy from solvents re-leased during processes and for recycling sol-vents from process air, for example, have be-come widely used on the European market.

At the end of June 2012, BASF opened its new coating technical support

lab in the Indian city of Mangalore. The employees at the new facility will pro-vide lab services including product de-velopment, analytical testing, certi�ca-tion and new pigment quali�cation. The

technical support lab will complement the existing expertise at the Mangalore site. In early July, BASF opened a new application centre for vehicle paints and an extension to the development labo-ratory at its production site in Tultitlán in Mexico. The aim is to provide improved

technical support for the automotive in-dustry in North America and to develop sustainable and customised coating technologies. Among other things, the new facility will o�er technical services for base coats, pigments and dispersions and for introducing new colours.

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