Traditional Vehicles

Layer By Layer. Proven Technologies. Brilliant Performance.

Around the world, automotive OEMs rely on Axalta to deliver performance and exceptional color palettes. From superior corrosion protection of our electrocoats to lush basecoat colors and protective clearcoats, our goal is to create a beautiful finish that will endure under the toughest weather and road conditions. Leading color technology and design expertise is used to create colors that enable OEMs to provide car buyers with vibrant and beautiful choices year after year.
 

Axalta's full system portfolio offers premium solutions to all addressable requirements:

For nearly a century, Axalta has honed the technology of developing primers, colorful basecoats, and protective clearcoats that have styled generations of vehicles.
 

Basecoats
We understand that color affects emotion and can often be a significant factor in choosing a vehicle. For decades, Axalta has developed thousands of basecoat products and effects to connect car buyers with color. Whether using Axalta’s paints or other special effect coatings, our basecoats provide unparalleled durability, color, and beauty.

Pre-Coats
Formulated especially for use as part of Axalta’s waterborne and solventborne 3-Wet Harmonized Coating Technology system, our pre-coats provide the foundation for great appearance and durability. The pre-coat technology is intended to aid wet-on-wet layering and requires only a single curing step that is designed to reduce energy costs and increase line productivity. Application can even eliminate the capital investment for ovens that are required for traditional high-temperature cured primer. Axalta’s 3-Wet system can provide physical properties, such as scratch and mar resistance, and appearance that rival conventional systems.

Primer
Axalta primers offer optimized film smoothness and excellent adhesion properties. Our products protect substrates and offer chip resistance while providing a smooth surface across multiple materials for either separate basecoat plus clearcoat systems or single application monocrats.

AquaEC™ E-Coat
AquaEC™ is a sustainable, water-based electrocoat solution that provides a reliable mechanical strength and first layer of superior corrosion protection over a variety of substrates, including hot-rolled steel, cold-rolled steel, galvanized steel, aluminum and magnesium.