D-B, Dehumidification Make Watching Paint Dry Profitable for Plant
Purchasers of the new Mercedes M-Class SUV (sport utility vehicle) will love the trendy, soft-touch paint on the instrument panels and consoles, but they’ll have no idea of the amount of ingenuity that went into the application’s quality control.
“It’s temperature and humidity control in the application process that decides between a product that’s of the utmost quality and one that is less than acceptable and (has to be) produced again,” said Tim Henion, Mercedes model year 2000 program manager of Arkay Plastics. Arkay is a tier-two injection molding producer/assembler for tier-one supplier Delphi Automotive Interior Lighting Systems (Vandalia, OH).