Vans in tanks: CV manufacturers embrace paintshop innovation

Limited factory floor space, a drive for energy efficiency and cost-reduction all create challenges for industrial automation suppliers, and this is particularly applicable to the highly energy-intensive paintshop. These challenges take on somewhat different dimensions for CV manufacturers, who deal with far larger vehicle bodies than their passenger car sector colleagues.

Johannes Grobe is Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Durr Systems, which recently revealed it has developed its rotational dip process (RoDip), used in pre-treatment and electro-coating, for use CV manufacturing. In this process, closed vehicle bodies are flipped 360 degrees through a