When planning a new coating line, the first important step is to determine the requirements. To enter new fields of application, the Räckers company, Ahaus, Germany, decided in late 2008 to expand its production facilities by adding a high-quality corrosion protection coating line. The comprehensive scope of this systems supplier of commercial vehicle technology covered a variety of methods for producing vehicle superstructures, including metal processing, CNC cutting, and the use of modern foaming and adhesive technologies. While initially considering installing a classic e-coating line with metal pre-treatment, Räckers finally decided on Henkel’s chemical autodeposition process, Aquence, in combination with a downstream powder coating stage.