Customer Sustainability

At Axalta Plascon, we put our customers first. One of our key priorities is helping them meet their own sustainability goals, enabling their products to last longer and reduce the environmental impact from coating application. Our coatings enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of cars and light trucks to protect their vehicles from weather, abrasion, ultraviolet light, and other corrosive elements. Axalta Plascon’s commercial vehicle coatings not only enable buses, trucks, and trains to display corporate branding, but also withstand wear from rugged conditions. Industrial coatings provide substrates with lasting protection and enhanced productivity, from building cladding and vehicle parts to electrical components, agricultural, construction and earth moving equipment.

Coating Product Formulations

Axalta Plascon’s product formulations help our customers meet their sustainability goals. Waterborne and high solids solventborne liquid coatings for use by original equipment manufacturers and in the aftermarket contain reduced levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Our products meet key air quality goals set by our customers and regulators. Industrial coatings such as AquaEC electrocoat and Voltatex® are available in tin- and formaldehyde-free formulations, respectively.

Low-VOC liquid refinish products include Cromax® Pro, Permahyd® Hi-TEC and StandoBlue®. 

Waterborne and both high- and medium-solids solventborne coatings for original equipment vehicle manufacturers reduce VOC emissions.

Variations of the Voltahyde® line of Energy Solutions electrical insulation products use waterborne and formaldehyde-free formulations to reduce their impact on the environment. 

Coating Application Systems

Coating application systems also enable customers to achieve their goals.

Harmonized Coating Technologies™ that are installed in OEM paint shops offer consolidated layering systems combined with low or ambient temperature cure coatings, reducing energy consuming “bake steps” that are traditionally required between paint applications. Eliminating bake ovens also shortens the paint shop footprint and can reduce capital costs. 

Electrical insulation coatings such as Voltatex® enable electric components and motors, transformers and generators to operate at higher temperatures, which translates into greater efficiency and energy savings.

For more information on Axalta’s efforts to reduce the environmental footprint from coatings, please refer to our 2020-2022 Sustainability Report on Axalta Global page.