“AutoKrAZ” switched to use of new air drying paints and lacquers as part of ongoing energy conservation program to reduce production costs and improve quality of products. This will enable to replace energy-consuming operations of paint drying at a temperature of up to +135 ?С in steam and gas drying chambers with less energy-consuming ones.
The АС-010 acrylic primer that needs temperature of +20 0С is used now instead of the ЕP-0228 epoxy primer. Despite that the consumption of the АС-010 primer is 30 percent up as compared to the consumption of the ЕП-0228 epoxy primer, the company will save about UAH 600 000 a year due to gas and power saving, for one vehicle the saving will be about UAH 500.
A full cycle of laboratory and production tests started in December of the previous year preceded introduction of new paints. Test results proved that new primer is not inferior in its physical and mechanical properties to previous one.
KrAZ plans to continue working on reduction of production costs and improvement of quality of its products due to use of energy-saving technologies and up-to-date materials.
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Paint shop of “AutoKrAZ” is big priming, painting and drying facility situated in assembly shops. Truck parts and units are painted by dipping and convective spraying using air spray gun.
Corrosion protection primer is applied on truck cab through electrophoretic (anaphoretic) process based on surface diffusion of paint.
Major paints and lacquers used in production cycle are corrosion protection primers (alkyd, epoxy), ground coat enamels and enamels (alkyd, melamine, polyurethane, etc.). “AutoKrAZ” collaborates with over 20 companies and firms producing paints and lacquers both in and out of Ukraine.
