TECHNOLOGY NEWS:
Pevicoat celebrates 10 years
Pevicoat – BASF Coatings’ technical service concept for the coil coatings industry – recently celebrated its tenth birthday and, according to the company, it is showing no signs of old age. It was specially developed for supplying paints directly to the coating line. As part of the Paint Management concept of BASF Coatings, Pevicoat has a reputation for pace, flexibility and improved efficiency in the production of paints for coating steel and aluminium coils.
Thomas Stewing, Director of Precoatings Europe at BASF Coatings stresses the benefits: “The heart of our Paint Management concept is the Pevicoat System. It allows the coil coater to focus on his core competencies: marketing and selling the finished product. Our service centre can match any colour and gloss within 24 hours and mix the coating in the exact quantity that is needed. This allows the customer to substantially increase the production capacities of the coil coating line and minimise inventory.”
“In my view there is no better tool to enhance our customers’ flexibility while at the same time reducing the complexity of the process as far as the customer is concerned. Basically, the customer has a small coatings factory with properly qualified staff including colour lab and warehouse in his immediate neighbourhood”, stresses Stewing.
At the moment, BASF Coatings’ teams are working on further improvements to the Paint Management concept. The overall colour matching process is to be automated further and more closely linked to the BASF Coatings’ colour databases. According to Stewing, “The idea is to provide the customer with a range of colours comparable to that available to automotive OEMs.” Beyond this, BASF Coatings is also developing a mobile concept. This will allow the customer to become acquainted with the advantages of the Pevicoat unit without making any commitment, such as having to make any building modifications up front.
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BASF Coatings AG |
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Germany |
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