Daily Management Review

Cromax and Punch Powertrain Solar Team Partnership for Belgium Solar Car


06/30/2015


Cromax, one of the three premium worldwide resurface brands of Axalta Coating Systems, has consented to an arrangement with Punch Powertrain Solar Team in Belgium to turn into one of the group's Bronze Partners for the improvement of its sun oriented auto.
Under the terms of the assention, Cromax supplies the paint for the exceptional sunlight based auto that a group of youthful understudies – the Punch Powertrain Solar Team - is planning and building. The auto is being painted at the most recent era Cromax Training Center in Mechelen, Belgium – the brand's preparation central command for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) – and the attire, which incorporates the Cromax logo, will be uncovered in August 2015. The auto will contend in the 2015 World Solar Challenge - viewed as the big showdown for sunlight based vehicles - in October in Australia.



The group, which is embodied 16 capable understudies concentrating on electrical building and electro-mechanics at the University of Leuven, Belgium, is in the last phases of developing the auto. Then, Cromax has been working intently with the group pioneers to make bespoke, eye-getting shading recipes of the group hues. The waterborne detailing and profoundly beneficial application arrangement of Cromax coatings is likewise adjusted to the supportability plan behind the yearly sunlight based controlled race.

Dries Van sanctum Bergh, Cromax Brand Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa, says, "We're exceptionally eager to be supporting this youthful group of dynamic and aspiring understudies. Undertaking something like this, while as yet learning at college, is very much a deed. However, we're sure the group will make a phenomenal showing in the World Challenge in Australia, particularly on the back of coming in third in the European Solar Challenge in October 2014 and third in the inaugural Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge in January."

Karel Winderickx, PR & Events for Punch Powertrain Solar Team, says, "We've been contending in sun based difficulties since 2005, so this is the 6th auto we've composed and assembled. Every one has pushed the advancement envelope a tiny bit more. So we are charmed to be working with a brand like Cromax. We share numerous qualities, not minimum of which is our affection for development and our devotion to collaboration. Despite everything we've got far to go before the World Challenge later in the year, however with Cromax, alongside our different accomplices, we fondle to the assignment. We can hardly wait to perceive how the auto looks once it is splashed with the attire at its revealing in August."
 
About Axalta Coating Systems
Axalta is a main worldwide organization concentrated singularly on coatings and giving clients creative, brilliant, excellent and manageable arrangements. From light OEM vehicles, business vehicles and restore applications to electric engines, structures and pipelines, our coatings are intended to avoid consumption, build profitability and empower the materials we coat to last more. With over 145 years of involvement in the coatings business, the more than 12,000 individuals of Axalta keep on discovering approaches to serve our more than 120,000 clients in 130 nations better consistently with the finest coatings, application frameworks and innovation.

About Cromax
Cromax, one of the worldwide revamp covering brands from Axalta Coating Systems, is intended to build efficiency from the front of the bodyshop to the back with coatings frameworks built for quick and precise application. Our restricted business arrangements, propelled shading estimation innovation, promoting backing and even minded advancements frame the premise of a very beneficial resurface process. Cromax helps bodyshops drive their business forward.

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