(Dürr: Southfield, MI) -- Paint shops must become “greener” to help vehicle manufacturers feel certain about meeting their ambitious climate targets.

Assessing a technology’s sustainability is a complex task. In a comprehensive life cycle analysis, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) studied the carbon footprint of two different paint shop concepts. The result: Dürr’s paint shop with the EcoQPower system, which networks all energy flows to supply all process steps, reduces carbon emissions by 19.2% over its entire life cycle compared to paint shops without this system. This is mainly due to an energy consumption reduction of about 21% during the utilization phase, making it the first paint shop to comply with EU taxonomy requirements.
 
Paint shops consume the most energy throughout the entire vehicle manufacturing process, since applying paint and drying car bodies are very energy-intensive. Consequently, modern paint shops’ carbon footprints are still significant despite technical progress.

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