expansion at CIVAC, to add more volume of production to its lines” said Joan Busquets, vice president of manufacturing at Nissan Mexicana. On October 11, Nissan Mexicana celebrated the production of 16 million engines at the Aguascalientes A1 plant. The 16 millionth engine includes the Bore Spray Coating technology (designed to increase the power and durability of monoblock cylinders) and belongs to a Nissan Kicks. Nissan announced that since N...

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informed that it unveiled the first images of the new Verna. Taking the segment benchmarking to next level, new Verna comes with several First-in-Segment features such as the Digital Cluster, Front Ventilated Seats, Twin Tip Muffler design, Smart Trunk, Emergency Stop Signal, Wireless Charger, ECO coating, Luggage Net & Hooks, Rear USB Charger and Arkamys Premium Sound. A blend of modern design, Innovative technology and unbeatable performance, ...

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business partners in Europe. Great Wall Motor Co. has signed a contract to build a CKD plant in Bulgaria with Litex, a parent company of Litex Motors of Bulgaria. Construction of the plant has begun in May 2009, to start operating in the first half of 2011. The 400,000-sq-m plant will have welding, coating and assembly facilities, with an annual capacity of 50,000 units. Great Wall Motor will offer technical license and market a SUV, a pickup tru...

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icle were reduced by 40%.  Taking BAIC Blue Valley Plant as an example, through innovative paint slag treatment technology, the amount of hazardous waste was reduced by 1.38 kg/vehicle, with a reduction rate of about 60%, and the total amount of hazardous waste reduced by 207 tons per year. In the coating process, the spraying of Arcfox αT uses the advanced three-coating process on the market, which greatly reduces the use of zinc, nickel, mang...

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w equipment such as 3C1B water-based paint environmental protection process, robot automatic painting, TNV waste gas incineration system, intelligent management and control system to carry out automatic spraying operations, reduce the use of organic solvents from the source; reduce the intermediate coating drying and intermediate coating grinding processes; minimize the emission of VOC in the workshop. On August 25, BAIC exhibited a number of new...

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n. GAZ Group announced on November 21, that it started production of frames for the new model of Mitsubishi Pajero Sport. The project is implemented under a contract signed by PJSC GAZ and PCMA Rus LLC on welding of frames for Mitsubishi Pajero Sport by PJSC GAZ, application of corrosion-protective coating (phosphating and e-coating) and delivery to assembly line of PCMA Rus in Kaluga. There are two frame types: for vehicles with automatic and ma...

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icle were reduced by 40%.  Taking BAIC Blue Valley Plant as an example, through innovative paint slag treatment technology, the amount of hazardous waste was reduced by 1.38 kg/vehicle, with a reduction rate of about 60%, and the total amount of hazardous waste reduced by 207 tons per year. In the coating process, the spraying of Arcfox αT uses the advanced three-coating process on the market, which greatly reduces the use of zinc, nickel, mang...

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ains such as the body shop for the PPE into existing structures at the Ingolstadt plant. An automation rate of 87% enables efficient assembly of body components for the Q6 e-tron series. The paint shop for the new fully electric series has been upgraded with an extended dryer post-CDC (cathodic dip coating) and automated hole-sealing. Robots now seal about 70 holes in the bodies after CDC, a task previously done manually, ensuring all parts reach...

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. Its Ultium Cells battery plants in Warren, Ohio, and Spring Hill, Tennessee are producing enough cells to power one new EV every minute. Using AI-powered cameras and robotics only 250 workers at the Ultium Cells facility in Tennessee, overseeing a highly automated system spanning chemical mixing, coating, curing, and cell stacking. Finished cells are shipped to vehicle assembly lines to power the Cadillac Lyriq and Vistiq, Chevrolet Blazer EV a...

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sedan, built in Blue Springs, new Huntsville plant in 2021 Toyota launches all-new RAV4 Toyota launches the new Corolla and the new Corolla Touring Toyota suspends operations at Takaoka Plant No. 1 Line, secondary infection on site Toyota develops airless painting equipment with coating efficiency of 95% or more Toyota suspends Takaoka Plant line No. 1, as a result of reduced overseas demand due to new coronavirus Toyota adjus...

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rts citing people familiar with the matter. While research on battery electrodes continues at the German site, all equipment for the remaining production steps of winding, assembling and formatting the cells is being moved to Gigafactory Texas. Tesla wants to focus on successfully deploying its dry coating of the electrodes in the U.S. and begin volume production at Gigafactory Texas by the end of 2022 before starting German production. When Giga...

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omobile Co., Ltd. (Hozon) completed construction of its plant in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province. The plant resides on a site of around 270,000 square meters with a built-up area of 96,762 square meters, with a first-phase investment amount of CNY 1.156 billion. The plant will carry out stamping, coating, welding, and assembly operations and has an annual production capacity of 80,000 units (first phase). The plant has started operationd. The p...

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e-development. On June 6 Shanghai GM held a groundbreaking ceremony for its fourth manufacturing plant, Shanghai GM Wuhan Branch, in Jiangxia District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. The seven-billion-yuan plant has an area of 2.32 square kilometers and has facilities for stamping, body manufacturing, coating and assembly together with auxiliary facilities. The plant is capable of producing 300,000 new cars including midsize and compact cars, SUVs a...

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lding process of Production Line #2, an open/close flow control system for the 3/4 cold water pipe bypass in fall and winter will be used to reduce output flow, saving 120,000kWh of electricity consumption per year. In addition, by optimizing the blow time after RTO (regenerative thermal oxidizers) coating, the company was able to save approximately 650,000kWh of electricity consumption per year. On March 30, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. ...

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pleted research on 15 types of low-carbon and lightweight technologies, including recycled aluminum, bio-based nylon, and variable stiffness thermoforming. Furthermore, Changan has been developing low-carbon process technologies to improve resource utilization, such as using the industrial chain of coating cleaning solvents for recycling, water reuse and sludge drying. On February 9, Changan Auto released the Dubhe Plan 2.0 in Chongqing. The Dubh...

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rted operations on May 24. The plant is located in Changsha National Economic & Technical Development Zone on a land of 1.67 million square meters. Its annual production capacity is 300,000 units. The New Lavida sedan rolled off the line at the plant the same day. The plant has stamping, auto body, coating and assembly lines, an office and residential building, a technical center and a wastewater treatment plant. On August 6,according to various ...

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his was unveiled in the environmental assessment information of the joint venture disclosed by Hubei Environmental Protection Bureau. The two companies will build a plant capable of producing 150,000 passenger vehicles a year in Huangjinkou, Hanyang District, Wuhan City, having a stamping, welding, coating and assembly lines, plastic processing facilities, engine production facilities and a research and development center. When it will be operati...

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ill be added and customized based on GACNE's feedback and evolving digital needs. Since the start of their collaboration, BASF has supported GACNE to launch its paint shop and provided technical expertise, including comprehensive color development and paint shop management. BASF has become the 100% coating supplier of GACNE since then, including e-coat (electrodeposition coating), primer, basecoat and clear coat. On July 28, GAC Group held the GA...

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inning in 2018. This new engine offers significant improvement in driving pleasure, with better torque at low rpm and greater and constant availability at high rpm, while reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. It incorporates several recent Alliance-developed innovations, including Bore Spray Coating, a cylinder coating technology from the Nissan GT-R engine. The pressure of the direct fuel injection has been raised by 250 bar and a specifi...

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he rotors and stators of BMW’s sixth-generation (Gen6) electric drivetrain, which will power the upcoming "New Class" EVs. In 2024, BMW’s Steyr plant officially chose voestalpine as its supplier for electrical steel. The new voestalpine material combines ultra-thin electrical steel with modern coating tech. It’s first processed in Linz into thin strips, then formed into laminated cores at the Steyr plant, where they become part of efficien...

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