PAN-DUR relies on the EcoPaintJet system from Dürr to increase flexibility and speed in production while reducing costs.
The German engineering company Dürr
has recently announced that its EcoPaintJet technology, firstly developed to provide an overspray-free paint application for industrial vehicles coatings application, has now been selected by the commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturer PAN-DUR.
The company offers an enhanced safety glass (ESG) with decorative stripes that obscure the unsightly bonded and sealed seams at the edges of the glass and the refrigeration technology behind them. Until now, it employed a screen-printing process for which it required a new template for every colour, size or design variation.
Offering a high edge definition paint application without overspray, the EcoPaintJet system allows then PAN-DUR to avoid the complex screen-printing process, increasing flexibility and speed in production while reducing costs: each contour is simply programmed and applied in the desired colour to the corresponding predefined area without having to mask the glass surfaces first, thus eliminating the complex and costly manufacture of individual templates
as well as the need to devote valuable space to storing them.
An additional advantage of EcoPaintJet is that all components are ready to be integrated into already-existing production systems. “We linked the Dürr process technology with the interfaces of our system The implementation couldn’t have gone any more smoothly,” has explained Jens Verhoef, the head of the development of electrical and automation technology at PAN-DUR.
Moreover, Dürr also provided all process technology: from the system for extracting the paint from the containers to the system for supplying it to the applicator. The installed components include the Fluid Board colour dosing and colour changing system, the applicator cleaner and the EcoAUC control unit.
“Other industrial applications are also possible for EcoPaintJet, such as in the timber industry, in window or kitchen building and in the field of painting railway vehicles. There is potential everywhere that straight stripes are applied to flat surfaces and that type of painting still requires masking right now. We are getting many inquiries from different industries,” has added Fabian Schilt, the head of the European industrial sales team of Dürr.