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Matrix System Sets up Environmentally Friendly Production Facility
Walled Lake, MI --- April 21, 2009 -- Matrix System Automotive
Finishes said this week it is proud to be one of the first automotive
paint manufacturers in the U.S. to equip its facilities and develop
water-based paint in its own backyard -- Michigan.
This is a huge step for Matrix System, which
recently introduced its
waterborne line, Aqualution, to the California market in April 2008. Over
the last year, the requests for making the switch to a water-based paint
system have been immense. Due to the various inquiries, Matrix System
made the decision to build an additional 3,200-square-foot Aqualution
production facility, located in Commerce Twp., Mich., which also includes
new spray and testing equipment to segregate the water technology from
the traditional solvent paint system.
This newly remodeled production facility will include 25 new stainless
steel small batch processing vessels and equipment to produce more than
60,000 gallons of product a year as part of the initial process. The area
can be expanded to double its capacity as sales increase on the Aqualution line.
The manufacturing plant has also installed a de-ionized water system with
UV lighting to process Great Lakes water for use in this green
product. Additionally, state-of-the-art processing pumps and filtration
will be used to assure the quality of the product.
Aqualution was formulated and introduced to the California market to
fundamentally reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Since the
release, word has really spread and may now soon be a national industry
standard. The national release of Aqualution is planned for the spring, and
first production scale batches were started in this facility beginning in March.
"Matrix System is extremely excited and honored to be one of only a few
manufacturers to produce an environmentally friendly water-based toner system
for the automotive aftermarket here in the United States," said John
Czarnik, operations plant manager. "We strongly feel that this will give
Matrix System a huge advantage in offering our customers a technologically
advanced product that is eco-safe."
Reprinted from Aftermarket News