BRAND-NEW
RoDip® E Impresses in China
T
he joint venture FAW-VW is
In addition to exchanging the conveyor
Reiner Schmid, CEO of Dürr in China,
revamping a Chinese paint shop.
technology in the pretreatment and
on this modification: “In addition to the
Plant engineering firm Dürr has
electrocoating areas, Dürr is also modernizing
increase in capacity, this modernization
been chosen as a competent partner for
the conveyor technology in the adjacent
will benefit the customer through lower
this task. Once the paint shop is put into
areas. The oven and cooling zones as well as
maintenance costs, simpler operation,
operation in September 2019, it will be
the PVC workstations are also being extended.
and higher plant availability.”
the first time that the RoDip® E rotational
The aim is to increase the capacity to 65 units
dip process with electric drive has been
per hour and to integrate a new, larger vehicle
For further information:
used in China.
model into the production process.
www.durr.com
Well over 10 million bodies per year tried-and-tested technology from Dürr.
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worldwide are already coated with this It does away with the need for entry and exit inclines, which reduces the dip tank length by up to 6 meters and as a result saves water and chemicals. The smaller tank volumes also reduce the amount of energy required for tank conditioning. RoDip® not only reduces the unit costs, but at the same time offers outstanding corrosion protection through an optimized immersion, flooding, and draining process. Up to now, customers in the Chinese market have preferred the mechanical RoDip® M variant. The electric RoDip® E version is now being used for the first time in China, replacing an existing rival product. RoDip® E impresses with its electric drive, in which each of the freely programmable trolleys contains not only the conveying drive, but also a separate drive for the rotation. The individually programmable trolleys enable optimized dip curves for the respective body. This in turn results in even better coating quality and increased energy efficiency, and thus enables a further reduction in unit costs.
Figure 1: RoDip® E rotational dip process saves space, material, and energy and increases the quality of the corrosion protection.
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