United States. Dürr announced that it will build the new high-tech paint shop at Toyota's plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. In addition to the quality control system of the EcoReflect paint application, Dürr is also supplying large paint booths and small booths/desks, Dürr ovens and the Ecopure RL, one of the brand's most advanced exhaust air purification systems.
Dürr has had a relationship with Toyota in North America for more than 20 years and received an order in 2016 for the construction of a paint shop in Tijuana, Mexico. The plant began production of the Tacoma pickup earlier this year with great success.
"The order at Georgetown, which was received in June, reflects the growing and strong relationship between Dürr and Toyota," said Dürr Systems Inc. CEO and President Bruno Welsch. "We are proud to be part of providing Toyota with our state-of-the-art systems and technologies."
One of the new technologies is Dürr's EcoReflect: an innovative light tunnel to focus on the quality control of the paint application. It offers an ergonomically optimized solution, and the arched design of the light tunnel ensures homogeneous illumination and minimal glare. This allows the continuous detection of irregularities in the paint application with maximum precision. The use of LED technology ensures low energy costs and minimizes maintenance time. With its low-power LED technology, EcoReflect ensures a continuous mirror image, improved luminance distribution and stable, fatigue-free visual perception.
The facility will be equipped with two large three-layer wet cabins and several small cabins. Three Ecopure RL rotary valve regenerative thermal oxidizers are also included in Dürr's delivery scope for Toyota. The Ecopure RL is one of Dürr's most advanced exhaust air purification systems, capable of achieving destruction efficiencies in excess of 99% along with low operating costs and exceptional uptime. The Ecopure RL is a unique rotary valve system, which reduces maintenance time and costs in the future, and offers the smallest footprint in the industry, saving valuable plant space.
