Honda continues the initiative to reduce harmful emissions
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The first largest Honda plant is in North America, in Ohio.
It was here, far from suburban offices from agricultural land, the company decided to implement a large-scale initiative aimed at reducing harmful emissions into the atmosphere when manufacturing vehicles.
The car factory will be equipped with the newest painting equipment (the cost of which is more than 200 million dollars), at this stage only some Acura models will be painted on the new technology.
Change in color technology will help to reduce harmful emissions by 18%, thanks to the implementation of this project, Honda is taking a step closer to its global goal of reducing harmful emissions to 90% per unit of sales.
Annually car factory pcs. Ohio produces more than 400 thousand cars (Honda and Acura), and for 33 years of work has produced more than 10 million cars.
The company's executives have already introduced some green technologies to reduce emissions of toxic compounds in the manufacture of vehicles.
New equipment for painting will reduce the cost of energy and resources, while the final quality will be an order of magnitude higher. Construction of the facility is planned in 2 months, its area will be 28 thousand m 2.
For Honda, developing new ways to reduce harmful emissions is not just an idea, but a duty. Environmental goals come from the main office located in Japan, where at a meeting of the company's leaders from all countries new initiatives are being discussed, which should be sought at all car plants without exception.
How exactly it is possible to achieve this or that goal is offered by the company's employees who carry out the work, also in the case of developing energy-efficient and environmentally friendly methods of painting cars.
According to the company's representatives, the new process is not just an advertising move of an already existing technology, although part of the paint process will remain unchanged. The new process is based on the replacement of water with lime dust, which will save resources and disposal costs.
The workshop is scheduled to open in December 2017 and specialists intend to paint on some new technology Acura. It is assumed that the new process will improve not only the appearance of the car, but also reduce harmful emissions, since the paint will release less toxic substances into the air (through the use of a water-based primer).
The traditional coloring process involves the use of water to trap and deposit paint splashes, which leads to the fact that more than 250 tons of paint is lost in the form of waste, which in turn requires additional transportation and disposal costs.
The new process involves a method of dry coloring - instead of water, limestone dust will be used to help collect paint particles flying in the air and save more than 7 million liters of water each year.
Despite the fact that the state of Ohio has no problems with access to water, the company appreciates the possibility of saving resources, especially on such a scale, as well as the ability to reduce the carbon footprint in the manufacture of cars.