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Cooperation With Automotive Manufacturer BELGEE Strengthens BASF’s Coatings Business in Eastern Europe
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BELAZ. The cooperation is the result of an ith the opening of With the opening of the production intense preparation. “In the end, we were BELGEE’s new automotive plant, BELGEE starts the line production able to convince BELGEE with the quality of production plant in Belarus at its Belarusian site which has a our products and our technological knowon November 17/18, the cooperation capacity of 60,000 car bodies a year – how”, stated Ravil Bayazitov, Local Account between BASF and the Chinesewith optional expansion. Top-ranking Manager, Automotive OEM Coatings, BASF Belarusian joint venture has reached politicians from Belarus and China Wostok. “The successful international another milestone. At the plant near joined the official opening ceremony. collaboration between all the teams from Minsk, Belarus, SUVs for the Russian, Germany, Russia and China was also a Belarusian, Ukrainian and Kazakh For further information: key to success”, emphasized Markus market will be produced (Fig. 1). www.basf-coatings.com Staubermann, technical project manager. BASF’s Coatings division supplies the respective coatings products for the car body as well as for the plastic parts. BASF is single supplier for all coatings layers – comprising e-coat, primer, basecoat and clearcoat. “We are proud that we won BELGEE as new customer for our comprehensive layer portfolio and that we can further strengthen our position on the Eastern European market”, explained Monika Pander, Account Manager New Business Development, Automotive OEM Coatings, at BASF. BELGEE is one of the rising stars in the automotive industry. The joint venture was founded by Geely, one 1 of the leading Chinese car producers, and Belarusian Figure 1: At the plant near Minsk, Belarus, SUVs for the Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Kazakh market will be automotive manufacturer produced.
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