Toyota has announced that it has now introduced metallic water-borne paint for the top coat painting process at all nine of its vehicle body paint lines in Japan.
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The final plant to introduce water-borne paint for the top coat process was Motomachi. This has resulted in an average VOC emission level of 30g/m2 (unit of weight per painted surface area) across all lines, compared to 55g/m2 in FY2000, a 45% reduction.
In turn this enables TMC to meet its FY2005 goal to reduce VOC emissions to an “average of 35g/m2 or less on all lines”, as stipulated in the third Toyota environmental action plan (FY2001-2005).
Toyota intends to reduce VOC emissions further. The fourth Toyota environmental action plan (FY2006-2010) states a FY2010 goal to reduce VOC emissions to an average of 25g/m2 or less on all paint lines, and, to achieve this goal, TMC is currently expanding introduction of water-borne paints to the vehicle body surfacer coat (middle coat) painting process and to bumper painting lines.
