SUCCESS STORIES
Dürr Developed and Installed a Smart and Sustainable Coating Plant for Electric Cars In just nine months, Dürr built a new smart and eco-friendly paint shop for the Chinese electric vehicles manufacturer SERES.
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he high-end new energy vehicle manufacturer SERES not only
“To meet the requirements of a production process that saves both
focuses on intelligent electric drive technology, but also on
resources and energy, we used especially sustainable products from
sustainable production processes. The company therefore
plant and environmental engineering and installed our DXQ energy
commissioned Dürr to equip a new paint shop in the Liangjiang
management solution,” has explained Yu Lin, the vice-president of the
plant in Chongqing (southwestern) China, in order to optimise the
paint and final assembly business of Dürr China.
production process for energy and resource efficiency. Just nine months after receiving the contract, Dürr installed the plant and exhaust air
Savings with smaller tanks
purification technology as well as the software.
The RoDip® M mechanical rotational process is well-known for
SERES electric cars have been on the market since 2016, and the
conserving energy and resources during the pretreatment and
company has shipped vehicles to over 70 countries since then, aiming to
cathodic electrocoating of vehicle bodies. While RoDip is a classic in
become a major player in the European electric vehicle industry thanks
the market, its sustainability benefits remain remarkable: its 360°
the new paint shop in the Liangjiang plant in Chongqing, which can
rotational movement, which spins the bodies around their own axes,
complete 60 jobs/hour.
eliminates the need for an inclined exit section in the immersion tanks.
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The RoDip® M rotational process of Dürr for the pretreatment and cathodic electrocoating of the electric vehicles of SERES.
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