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    BASF's surface treatment site starts operations in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province

    • Last Update: 2023-01-04
    • Source: Internet
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    With the rapid development of social economy, the Asia-Pacific region has become one of the fastest growing markets in the field of chemical surface treatment in the
    world.

     
    Do you know what "chemical surface treatment" is?
     
    Chemical surface treatment, as the name implies, is the surface treatment of the material through chemicals to enhance the adhesion of the material post-coating, while improving the corrosion resistance of the substrate itself, so that the substrate can adapt to various environmental applications
    .
    The field of chemical surface treatment covers aerospace, automotive, aluminum profiles, coils, cold forming, general industry and many other industries
    .

     
    BASF's largest surface treatment site was officially put into operation in Pinghu
     
    On November 22, BASF's Chemetall production site in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province officially started production
    .
    The site is BASF's first production site in the Dushan Port Economic Development Zone and covers an area of 60,000 square meters
    .
    The new site is designed as a smart factory that will enable a wide range of digital applications and factory automation
    .

     
    Uta Holzenkamp, President of BASF's Coatings division:
     
    "In July this year, we just expanded our production capacity
    for automotive refinish coatings at our Jiangmen site in Guangdong Province.
    Today, we are celebrating the commissioning of our new surface treatment site in Pinghu
    , Zhejiang Province.
    We strategically maintain close contact with local customers to meet their needs
    for our advanced and proven solutions.
    Our goal is to be a growing surface technology leader, providing sustainable solutions, services, expertise and innovations to our customers across industries and in China
    , a key growth market.

     
    Dr.
    Jianfeng Lou is Chairman and President of BASF Greater China
     
    "BASF is committed to continuing to develop in China, the world's largest chemical market
    .
    Our strategy is to produce
    in areas close to our customers' markets.
    The Pinghu production site provides us with a great example of how we focus on
    our customers by strengthening our local technology and market position.

     
    The new Pinghu site adopts a smart factory design that will achieve a high degree of process automation and end-to-end digitalization in operations to improve the efficiency
    of product manufacturing and site logistics.

     
    Christophe Cazabeau, Senior Vice President, Surface Treatment, BASF Coatings:
     
    "Asia Pacific is the fastest growing surface treatment market in the world, and China accounts for about 50%
    of the Asian market.
    We believe that the Chinese market will show an attractive growth rate
    in the medium to long term.
    By localizing our cutting-edge processes and solutions, such as thin-film technology Oxsilan®, we are strengthening our leading position in the Chinese market while significantly reducing delivery times
    to local customers.

     
    Chemetall's first innovation and technology centre in Asia Pacific opens in Shanghai
     
    At the same time, BASF recently opened the Chemetel Asia Pacific Innovation and Technology Center in Shanghai, focusing on developing advanced surface treatment solutions for a wide range of industries and markets in Asia to drive product innovation
    .
    The 2,600-square-meter center has 1,600 square meters of laboratory space and 1,000 square meters of office space, including an analytical test center, an application test center, and an innovation laboratory, equipped with a range of advanced facilities and laboratory equipment
    for various tests and applications.

     
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    The application test center is equipped with a fully imported fully automatic pretreatment simulation pilot line from Germany, as well as a simulation processing line including the new anti-corrosion coating technology VIANT and the film conversion technology Oxsilan®, which can reproduce the pre-treatment scene
    at the customer's site.

     
    The Innovation Lab, with 23 suction hoods, 52 countertops, 8 fume hoods, and a capacity to store more than 1,000 chemical types, is the core part of the new center, where product development, improvement, and localization are carried out in this laboratory, covering all product systems
    .

     
    The analytical laboratory is equipped with cutting-edge testing instruments such as SEM, which specializes in high-resolution topography observation of the surface of various substrates, combined with energy spectroscopy (EDX), for elemental composition analysis, including foreign body particles, powder elemental composition analysis
    .
    There are also plasma photoelectric direct-reading spectrometers for liquid ion composition detection, ICP, XRF equipment for plate element analysis, etc
    .
    Comprehensive testing of these devices can efficiently help engineers understand the combined properties of
    liquids and materials.

     
    Original: BASF's largest surface treatment site starts production in China
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