EB/UV curing without Gas

ongoing

" The ArcelorMittal coating plant in Contrisson (Grand Est region, France) wishes to launch project EB/UV curing without Gas in order to reduce its carbon footprint and to improve its energy performance and productivity by installing equipment on organic coil coating lines to ensure the cross linking of paints by electronic bombardment. This process, which is already industrial for other applications, will be used for the first time in Europe for curing paint on steel substrates. The innovative process was developed for 13 years together with Liege research centre, a long-term partner of ArcelorMittal. This innovative solution is intended to be first installed on the industrial line 3 as demonstrator and after extended to the two other coil coating lines at the Contrisson site and later to other coil coating lines of the ArcelorMittal group in Europe. This process enables the current paint to be replaced by a ""green"" product on a non-solvent base, thereby eliminating the need for a CO2-emitting and energy-intensive incineration system "