PPG Serves the Automotive Parts and Accessories Market
Award-winning R&D efforts provide solutions to OEM demands for corrosion protection.
It takes a wide range of coating solutions to protect and decorate Automotive Parts and Accessories (APA). The global supply chain requires coatings manufacturers that can assure OEM specifications are met, no matter where the parts are coated. These parts include rigid and flexible exterior trim systems, steel and aluminum wheels, body panels, bumper systems, break systems, hitches, shocks, axles, coil springs, sway bars, under hood and under body parts.
Having partnerships with leading automobile manufacturers has driven PPG to becoming a best-in-class provider of integrated coating technologies for the automotive parts and accessories market. PPG's mission and values of dedication to customers, continuous improvement and environmental stewardship are the backbone to its award-winning surface treatments and coatings technology specifically designed for the automotive OEM.
Featured Products for the Automotive Parts and Accessories Market
Liquid
PPG Liquid Coatings offer superior durability and appearance technology. With high-performance solvent-based or low-VOC water-based coatings, PPG has a solution for virtually every liquid coating need. PPG helps automotive OEMs and tier suppliers to achieve their design vision with colour trends, styling, and the employment of the latest coatings technologies to satisfy the ever-changing global demand for styling and design.
Electrocoat
PPG’s award-winning electrodeposition coating, Framecoat® and Powercron® are patented cathodic epoxy electrocoat coatings. These products provide excellent protection and corrosion resistance for frames, chassis components and a wide variety of underbody parts on cars and trucks. Cost savings result from better throw power, allowing less material usage, lower application temperatures and the elimination of vehicle heat shields required by previous treatments such as hot wax.
PPG has pioneered the most important electrocoat product and process advances including ultrafiltration of paint to increase efficiency, the first commercialization of cathodic electrocoat, the installation of the first anolyte system to minimize waste, and has introduced lead-free cathodic epoxy coatings into the APA market.
Powder
PPG powder coatings meet a wide array of OEM specifications. PPG testing labs are the industry benchmark for qualifying coatings as a critical supplier to the automotive industry. PPG’s Envirocron® and Enviracryl® powder coating formulas are economical and backed by unmatched experience, technology and service. Whether it is primers or topcoats, PPG’s powder coatings exceed aesthetic and performance expectations of APA customers.
Pre-treatment
PPG’s complete line of pre-treatment products, such as iron, zinc and ambient temperature phosphates, offer superior corrosion resistance. By using an integrated pre-treatment and finish supplier, automotive manufacturers and their tiered suppliers reduce risk by having an integrated, single source provider.