Faurecia says it has successfully industrialised a new textured paint finish at its Marines plant, France, to provide PSA with two colours for its Peugeot 208; Ice Grey and Ice Silver.
The supplier says PSA maintains it is the first car manufacturer to offer this textured finish in a production vehicle.
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The paint, grained with small particles of silica, required development work to integrate into existing manufacturing lines.
Teams in Audincourt’s R&D centre worked on their specific development painting line to adapt processes and equipment, in particular how to prevent silica grains blocking machine parts.
In September, 2014 first parts were successfully produced at Audincourt with the process industrialised at Marines in order to manufacture the first production series.
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