Masking Expertise for Excellent Paint Jobs

The visual appeal of today's paint designs is an essential buying criteria for car drivers. Our comprehensive masking assortment support OEMs to create an accurate and unique look, while ensuring easy and lean paint shop processes. Take a look at our solutions for precise and perfect paint finishes:

• Fineline tapes
• Roll masker
• Overmasking tapes
• Flange masking
• Paper masking
• Customized dispenser solutions

Masking Technology - Unmasking Endeless Design Possibilities.

Enabling diverse design upgrades

Car customization is one of the megatrends in today's automotive industry. We offer a wide range of sophisticated solutions for car body and bumper masking applications that meet demanding requirements of the paint process. This helps OEMs to create a unique yet reproducible car design.

Our paper masking range helps OEMs to deliver long-lasting and flawless cars to their customers, enabling, for example, the temporary sealing of holes before the underbody coating and the economic finish of repair jobs – our paper masking tapes are all-rounders in the paint shop.

The trend for lightweight material is an important topic in the automotive industry, leading to the increased use of adhesive bonding techniques. The use of flange masking thereby enables the safe and primerless bonding of different materials, such as PP as well as crash-relevant parts like the windshield. As a result, the complexity in the manufacturing process is reduced.

Easy and Lean Paint Shop Process

Paint jobs easily accomplished

Before the car body arrives in the assembly shop with an eye-catching surface finish, it runs through a dozen process steps in the paint shop. Each of these steps – such as surface treatment for corrosion protection; temporary and permanent sealing; and the painting of base and clear coats – features its own demanding conditions including a zero-fault tolerance principle.

Our masking range and expertise helps OEMs to master the challenges and keep each step as lean as possible. This includes ensuring reliable adhesion; avoiding overspray on e-, solvent-, and water-based coatings even at high temperatures in the oven; and guaranteeing simple and residue-free tape removal to prevent extra work.

Industrial Car Individualization

Attractive multicolor paint coatings can increase a car’s selling price by some hundreds of euros. However, the production of two-tone-colored cars often creates challenges in the paint shop to ensure the reproducibility of each painted car at a high quality level and to keep to tight process times.

Based on our extensive industry experience in paint shop projects, we analyze the individual process and design parameters and create integrated and precise masking processes. For example, we support OEMs in defining the right
position of visible and nonvisible split lines and in finding lightweight tooling solutions that do not need any guidance from edges or grooves to ensure a high-quality paint line.

This approach and service lead to measurable savings in energy and operating costs as well as to an impressive quality standard. Of course, our support also covers on-site application training, putting the OEM into the driver seat.