Success Stories - Paint

Problem:

How to deliver quality, high solids/waterborne paints thru a state-of-the-art paint circulation system.

Solution:

Detroit Pump worked with Waukesha Cherry-Burrell to develop a pump that met the quality standards required. Initial high solids solvent borne and then waterborne paints were developed to reduce VOC emissions from automotive assembly plant paint shops and other high volume painting operations. Conventional pumping systems could not handle the shear sensitive nature of the waterborne paints without degradation of finish quality and potential damage to the reflective flakes in both types of basecoat paints. This can and does occur with these systems. Conventional systems are also very inefficient in terms of energy usage. Waukesha positive displacement circumferential piston pumps in conjunction with air operated double diaphragm pumps, which are used in general transfer, have demonstrated the solutions to these problems.

Detroit Pump has delivered this pump technology to General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Harley-Davidson, Honda, NUMMI, Saturn, and Toyota.

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