Innovative Dry Coating Technology Receives Australian Banksia Environmental Award



The 2008 Banksia Environmental Awards in Australia was announced recently in Melbourne City. The innovative dry coating technology was selected by expert experts and won the 2008 Banksia Environmental Awards. This technology can not only save energy consumption, but because it is a dry paint coating, which almost eliminates the volatilization of harmful gas components and organic solvents, this technology will possibly announce the end of the era of wet-coating technology in the automotive manufacturing industry. The ushered in a new era of environmental protection and energy saving dry film coating.

Market statistics show that at present, Australia's automotive industry consumes about 9.86 million liters of paint per year, and at least 2.5 million liters of paint will be wasted in solvent-based paints after high pressure spraying. This new coating and painting process can help automakers save paint waste, and the initial forecast will save Australia's auto industry 100 million Australian dollars in spending.

The expert of CSIRO company Voytek Gutowski, who is in charge of the project, pointed out that the project will solve the problems that have long plagued the automobile manufacturing industry and the plastics and furniture coating industry, and will replace the currently used liquid spray heat-curing finishes and coatings used in the above industries. Paint, such as a finished powder coating containing a plastic component.

"The CSIRO Coatings Group has solved many of the drawbacks of powder coatings in the automotive industry. That is, powder coatings only adhere to the surface of substrates, and the plastic components in them do not have good electrical conductivity. We adopted the nanometer level. The multi-functional molecular film replaces the plastic components of traditional coatings. This technology has been applied in Dulux's new generation of powder coatings. Dulux's new generation of powder coatings have a lower curing temperature than traditional powder coatings, and they are cured to form a film. The time is shorter."

Because of the outstanding characteristics of this new coating technology in environmental protection and performance, it will have a good application performance in recent years. It is believed that the dry coating technology can help companies to solve capital and personnel costs and find better ways for companies to increase profits. As an innovative technology, dry coating technology is supported by the Victoria Foundation for Sustainable Development and recently won the Victoria 2008 Sustainable Development Environment Award.