Globalpu News: PPG recently announced that the PPG global power battery fireproof coating production line in Wuhu City, Anhui Province, China has been put into operation. The new production line is mainly used to produce Corachar™ SE 4000, a fireproof coating product for electric vehicle battery packs, to further expand high-performance solutions for new energy vehicles. It is expected that the annual output of the Wuhu factory will reach 20,000 tons in 2022, of which the power battery fireproof coating can reach 1,100 tons.

The PPG Wuhu plant was put into operation in 2008, mainly producing environmentally friendly automotive coatings. Located in the Yangtze River Delta, the factory is strategically located for efficient logistics transportation and fast customer response across the country.

"With the strategic goals of 'carbon peaking' and 'carbon neutrality', China's rapid development of new energy vehicles is critical to achieving this goal. PPG's new electric vehicle solutions will help drive China's automotive Electrification.” PPG Asia Pacific Chief Financial Officer and Acting President Xiao Wenwei said: “PPG Wuhu’s new investment in a power battery fireproof coating production line fully reflects our commitment to developing innovative sustainable solutions To promote the development of the industry. At the same time, PPG will continue to further improve the level of factory digitalization and automation operations, and comprehensively improve production efficiency and value chain management to meet the growing market demand.”

Corachar™ SE by PPG The 4000 series is a new product developed by PPG specifically for the electric vehicle industry. The product can be activated in the event of an accidental thermal runaway of the battery, and quickly forms a safety barrier inside the battery pack, preventing the jet flame and the resulting high temperature of thousands of degrees Celsius from burning through the top cover of the battery pack due to thermal runaway. board, so as to ensure that the occupants have enough time to escape safely. At the same time, through long-term systematic verification, PPG The power battery fireproof coating solution fully meets the latest national standards. The product won the prestigious Global Top 100 Technology R&D Award in 2021 (R&D 100), a global leader in innovation. And it is worth mentioning that Corachar™ SE 4000 has been certified and commercialized by many of the world's leading automotive OEMs.

The new production line of this new battery fire retardant coating fully considers the various technical requirements that the product needs to meet, At the same time, it has a high level of production automation: from raw material detection and storage to material preparation, feeding and filling, the entire process adopts the latest automation process and monitoring technology, which can make production management measurable and controllable, and batch information can be traced .

"The new production line at the PPG Wuhu plant will further increase the production scale of innovative automotive coatings in order to better serve customers in China and the Asia-Pacific region," said Li Nianbin, vice president of PPG Automotive Coatings Asia-Pacific. "PPG's new impetus CoracharTM battery fire retardant coating SE 4000 can meet the needs of automatic robot spraying, thereby comprehensively improving the ability of automatic production of the painting process. PPG is determined to develop innovative products at the forefront of the industry and provide customers with more automotive coating products with special functions. ”