KrAZ continues to go “green”

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KrAZ Trucks  /  June 23, 2016

KrAZ has switched to the use of new air drying paints and lacquers as part of ongoing energy conservation program to reduce production costs and improve quality of products.

The change will enable KrAZ to replace outdated energy-consuming methods of paint drying at a temperature of up to +135 ºС in steam and gas drying chambers with less energy-consuming ones.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 being 30 percent higher than the previous ЕП-0228 epoxy primer, the company will save about UAH 600 000 a year due to gas and power saving. For each truck, a savings of about UAH 500 will be realized.

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.

Information:

The paint shop at KrAZ Trucks is a large priming, painting and drying facility situated in the 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. 

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