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USA – Honda is to install a new, state-of-the-art paint line at its Marysville Auto Plant (MAP). The company says the new MAP Line 1 paint facility will utilise new technologies to reduce energy and water use, and chemical emissions from the vehicle painting process. This will include the use of a more compact and energy-efficient 4-coat, 2-bake short process, eliminating one primer-coat curing oven.
When completed, Honda says the new paint shop will be the most energy-efficient paint line in its US automobile production network. Replacing the existing facility built in 1985, the new 300,000 sq. ft Line 1 paint shop will have a capacity of 229,000 units per year. Completion is scheduled for December 2017.
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