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Grand opening of Atotech’s
new European TechCenter
for customer training grounds for Atotech employees,
demonstrations. A zinc customers, as well as OEMs, offering sample
flake spray booth for plating for new finishes, providing qualification
manual rack runs for new processes and technologies
applications with a including equipment novelties. Another four
size of 2.8 x 2m and new TechCenters of this kind will be opened in
an automatic zinc 2009 in Taiwan, Czech Republic, India and Italy.
“It is part of our company philosophy that
we are committed to providing
customers with
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The event included a customer seminar on with a capacity of approx. 2,000kg/h
new trends and technologies for electrolytic illustrate the two ways of coating applications. leading
corrosion protection, zinc flake coatings for Analytic and materials science laboratories are technology and the best local
automotive and non-automotive applications especially equipped for corrosion service. By investing 11% of our sales into R&D,
and Atotech’s involvement in sustainable investigations, thickness testing and torque a strong focus is placed on the development of
development. tension measurement. high quality and environmentally responsible
“Europe represents a strong market for Atotech now operates 14 GMF TechCenters finishes that fulfil the requirements of the
automotive and non-automotive corrosion around the world especially equipped for automotive industry and its suppliers today
protection applications and Atotech is the sole corrosion protection applications. They serve as and in the future.”
supplier of both technologies.” notes Reinhard
Schneider, president of Atotech. “We have
chosen Trebur, located in the center of Europe,
for our new TechCenter so that we are close to
our customers and able to best serve plating
and coating companies, Tier 1s and OEMs from
Europe as well as the rest of the world with
our leading green technological solutions.”
The newly constructed Trebur TechCenter
occupies a total area of over 2,000m² for
equipment, laboratory, office and training
rooms. It is equipped with a fully automatic
plating line for zinc, zinc alloys, phosphate
pre-treatment and Cr(VI)-free post-treatment
processes including auxiliary equipment for
environmental sound production and on-line
analysis for process control. An advanced
wastewater system treats the effluents from
the plating line and serves at the same time
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