Faurecia has successfully industrialised a new textured paint finish at its Marines plant, France, to provide PSA with two innovative colours for its Peugeot 208
02 Jun 2015 | 3238 Views | By Autocar Professional Bureau
Faurecia has successfully industrialised a new textured paint finish at its Marines plant, France, to provide PSA with two innovative colours for its Peugeot 208 – Ice Grey and Ice Silver. PSA is the first car manufacturer to offer this textured finish in a production vehicle.
This paint, subtly grained ...
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Faurecia has successfully industrialised a new textured paint finish at its Marines plant, France, to provide PSA with two innovative colours for its Peugeot 208 – Ice Grey and Ice Silver. PSA is the first car manufacturer to offer this textured finish in a production vehicle.
This paint, subtly grained with small particles of silica, required development work to integrate into existing manufacturing lines. Teams in Audincourt’s R&D centre worked on their specific development painting line to adapt the processes and the equipment, in particular how to prevent the silica grains blocking machine parts.
In September 2014 the first parts were successfully produced at Audincourt. Then the process was industrialised at Marines in order to manufacture the first production series.