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and webcast educational seminars are being designed to showcase
the product, the company says.
www.halox.com

New Industrial Product Line Offers Customers
Durable, Cost-Effective, Corrosion-Resistant Solutions regardless of the robot brand or model.
Axalta recently launched its Strenex industrial product line for general FASTSUITE says manufacturers can overcome the limitations of
industrial, construction, and fabrication applications. Strenex expands online programming by using the CAD files of the workpiece to
the company’s industrial portfolio and gives customers entry into the achieve accurate path planning on complex 3D surfaces. Process
light and medium industrial markets throughout North America. simulation enables the optimization of robot trajectories to dose the
“Axalta is committed to continuous innovation and developing correct amount of sprayed material and achieve uniform deposition
products that meet the high standards that along the surface, ensuring coverage and eliminating waste.
customers expect from us,” says Dave Heflin, Simulation tools allow cell layouts and tooling designs to be
Vice President, Global Industrial Liquid validated for accessibility during the design phase, and cycle (time)
Coatings. “Strenex balances the demands of estimates to be generated for complex multi-robot cells. The use of
corrosion-resistance, aesthetic appeal and special tools to analyze the overall process result helps avoid
environmental constraints to meet the most programming errors and to validate programs before they are down-
challenging production environments and appli- loaded to a real cell. The simulation results of the created painting and
cation conditions. These new products also are surface treatment programs can be exported in 3D PDF format for fast
designed to deliver fast drying times and ease- and effective communication.
of-application, which provides the opportunity www.fastsuite.com/en_EN/technologies/painting
for our customers to become more productive spraying-coating
and efficient. We are excited about the value
these products will bring to customers and the opportunity to enter Erichsen Measures Hardness and Mars
this growing market.” New Erichsen scratch hardness testers 318/318S/318 C are used to
The Strenex family of products includes waterborne and solvent- measure the hardness of surface protective layers like paints and
borne single-component alkyd and acrylic products, as well as plastic coatings whether the surface is flat or curved.
solventborne urethanes. The offering has a selection of fit-for- Developed by Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart and manufactured
purpose fast-drying primers and direct-to-metal (DTM) topcoats that by ERICHSEN, the devices enable quick and easy quality control of
allows users to reduce production times and costs. The 120- and surface protection layers, even during production.
220-series primers offer steel fabricators and painters’ options that Gashes and mars are not nice to look at, especially on smooth,
meet industry standards for performance at multiple Volatile Organic shiny paint surfaces. But they
Compound (VOC) levels, including zero-VOC. The 602-series DTM can occur quite quickly:
urethane product line provides high-film build properties with sag fingernails can unintentionally
resistance up to 12 mils in a single coat. scratch over a matt-polished
www.axalta.us/industrial table or a branch can grind
across the beautiful paint of a
Fastsuite Edition 2 Includes Surface-Based car. Metal marking is another
Applications for Painting, Spraying, Coating type of mar. Here, the culprits
Surface-based applications are among the most demanding tasks in are small metal particles which
automotive and aerospace production where the use of robots for "rub off", leaving ugly scratches on the surface. Previously you could
spraying applications is widely used and proven. "inspect" a surface only with your fingernails. Now, the Erichsen Model
With new surface-based functionalities, FASTSUITE Edition 2 435 Mar tester enables you to specifically define the behavior of
enables manufacturers to create, simulate and analyze spray applica- coating surfaces with an exact test value.
tions and refine spray patterns, surface coverage, spray cone expan- www.erichsen-usa.us
sion and application speeds, FASTSUITE says. The software works

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