(Dürr Group: Southfield, MI) -- For the second year in a row, a Dürr innovation has impressed an independent review board and won the Automotive News PACE Award. The EcoInCure oven cures complex car bodies with superior paint quality faster and more efficiently than conventional ovens. Designed to exceed the evolving needs of drying both traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs), EcoInCure addresses critical customer requirements such as top-coat paint quality and improved overall curing performance.
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“We are very excited that our technology has been recognized as a cutting-edge innovation that shapes the automotive industry,” says Mark Murray, the sales and marketing director of Dürr in North America. “Dürr’s EcoInCure stands for a new generation of car body curing. It not only ensures the best surface quality but is also by far the most sustainable oven system on the market, thanks to the oven design and potential use of renewable electricity.”
EcoInCure will enable the Dürr paint shop of the future, which changes the production approach from line-oriented production to flexible and modular production with scalability. It’s an optimized solution for curing all vehicles, especially electric vehicles, within the required process time and meets specific treatment times for paint curing, adhesive curing, and steel and aluminum treatment. Avoiding high air velocity on the freshly painted surface significantly reduces paint waviness for both long and short waves. This advancement improves paint surface quality by 50%.
Due to the cross transport of the car bodies, the oven length can be reduced by almost half. The number of connecting conveyors is reduced, resulting in a smaller overall footprint and a reduction in building footprint by at least 5%.
With the electrically heated EcoInCure oven, energy savings of 50% can be achieved compared to a conventional gas-fired oven. With a zero-carbon footprint using renewable electricity, EcoInCure is the most sustainable oven system on the market. The Dürr technology is already being used in various plants around the world, for example, at Skoda and BMW.
The 29th annual PACE Awards were presented by Automotive News. The competition was open to suppliers that contribute products, processes, materials, or services directly to the manufacture of cars or trucks. The Automotive News PACE Award is accepted around the world as an industry benchmark for innovation.
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