Today the automotive and commercial vehicle industry faces a relentless combination of conflicting challenges which threatens the future prospoerity of operators and manufacturers alike. Environmental pollution on a global basis is much more of a recent phenomenon. Traditionally, protective paint coatings contained considerable amounts of solvent which gave off harmful volatile emmissions.
However the application of functional paintings exclude the shortcomings not only, but bring much more other new charactors for painting industry also. The use of functional coating applications has increased tremenouly over the past fifty years and they are now represented in nerly every segnent of the industry. In fact, coatings based on new functions frequently set the performance standards and lead the market in may areas.
Product range of decorative coatings covers technologies for the entire spectrum of decorative and functional surface treatment for various materials including steel, aluminium and even plastics. Quality and dependability of brilliant finishes, corrosion-free protection and durability are required – from parts for the automotive, sanitary or electronics industries to jewellery. At the present time are applications plastics as well as metal, from car wheels to bumpers and door handles to radiator grills. Decorative coatings can be made from: Plating on Plastics, Copper, Nickel, Chrome, Precious Metals.
Due to the increasing expectations of consumers, the international automotive industry is required to extend vehicle warranties. Thus improvements in corrosion protection are becoming increasingly important. As functional coatings corrosion protection coatings for a global industry with high environmental demands are used. Corrosion protection coatings concerned: Zinc and Zinc Alloy, Conversion Coatings, Sealers.
From bright acid zinc baths through environmentally safe cyanide-free alkaline zinc electrolytes to high performance zinc alloy electrolytes and mechanical plating solutions. E.g. zinc-iron and zinc-nickel processes provide superior corrosion resistance even for complex shaped parts through uniform thickness distribution, and these highly bendable layers also allow machining.
Next application of functional surfaces are applications for superior wear resistance and friction reduction Automobile components exist in demanding environments where long life requires maximum wear resistance. Hard chromium and electroless nickel coatings to wear performance for automotive applications are delivered. Wear resistant functional coatings can by made by: Hard Chrome, Electroless Nickel.
Functional coatings meet the specific needs of the automotive industry for high-tech electronics. The whole range includes products and processes for precious and non-precious metal plating as well as for pre-and post-treatment. These do not only comply with the most stringent quality standards, but are also in accordance with modern environmental regulations.