BASF Savors Award-Winning Coatings Successes, But Looks to Break New Ground in Automotive Finishes
BASF Coatings’ Integrated Process has received the PACE award recognizing innovations in automotive technologies.
BASF Coatings’ Integrated Process, a system designed to deliver economic and environmental advantages in the application of automotive OEM coatings, has received the PACE award recognizing innovations in automotive technologies. The award, sponsored by Automotive News and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, cited BASF’s development of a process that eliminates the high-temperature bake step following application of a primer to automotive bodies.
Meanwhile, BASF says its R&D experts are exploring ways to achieve another key objective in the quest for the ultimate performance and appearance properties in automotive-coatings advances: the development of finishes that offer significantly improved scratch resistance. These efforts are focused on new chemistries and materials, including highly crosslinked polymer networks, the use of glass-ceramic particles, and ultraviolet-curing methods.