OTHER NEWS - May 26, 1994
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Big Three to Build Joint Paint Plant: Trying to sharply reduce air emissions from vehicle painting, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. said they joined forces to build a $20-million facility to test a new generation of powdered paints. The Low Emissions Paint Consortium, formed by the three auto makers, will build the pilot facility at Ford’s assembly plant in Wixom, Mich. It will be used to test a new type of powdered clear-coat paint starting in late 1995. The 60,000-square-foot facility will be operated by ABB Paint Finishing Inc., a unit of Swiss-Swedish engineering group Asea Brown Boveri. Powder paints may become the auto industry’s future paint technology.
