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AUTOMOTIVE, AEROSPACE & MARINE
RoDip® E impresses in China
The joint venture FAW-VW is
revamping a Chinese paint
shop. Plant engineering
fi rm Dürr has been chosen
as a competent partner for
this task. Once the paint
shop is put into operation
in September 2019, it will
be the fi rst time that the
RoDip® E rotational dip
process with electric drive
has been used in China.
Well over 10 million bodies per year
worldwide are already coated with this
tried-and-tested technology from Dürr.
It does away with the need for entry and exit
inclines, which reduces the dip tank length
by up to 6 meters and as a result saves water
and chemicals. The smaller tank volumes
an existing rival product. RoDip ® E impresses
with its electric drive, in which each of the freely
programmable trolleys contains not only the
conveying drive, but also a separate drive for
the rotation. The individually programmable
trolleys enable optimized dip curves for the
respective body. This in turn results in even
better coating quality and increased energy
efficiency, and thus enables a further reduction
in unit costs.
also reduce the amount of energy required
for tank conditioning. RoDip ® not only
reduces the unit costs, but at the same time
offers outstanding corrosion protection
through an optimized immersion, flooding,
and draining process.
Up to now, customers in the Chinese market
have preferred the mechanical RoDip ® M
variant. The electric RoDip ® E version is now
being used for the first time in China, replacing
In addition to exchanging the conveyor
technology in the pretreatment and
electrocoating areas, Dürr is also modernizing
the conveyor technology in the adjacent areas.
The oven and cooling zones as well as the
PVC workstations are also being extended.
The aim is to increase the capacity to 65 units
per hour and to integrate a new, larger vehicle
model into the production process.
Reiner Schmid, CEO of Dürr in China, on this
modification: “In addition to the increase in
capacity, this modernization will benefit the
customer through lower maintenance costs,
simpler operation, and higher plant availability.”
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