ALUCOIL and Axalta Coating Systems: Celebrating 20 Years of Technology and Success

BASEL, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This year marks the 20^th anniversary of collaboration between
Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE: AXTA), a leading global supplier of liquid
and powder coatings, and ALUCOIL, a multinational manufacturer of
high-tech aluminum materials for the building and construction industry
based in Spain. Axalta developed a customized version of its Alesta^®
powder coating for ALUCOIL that would not only produce the best possible
results, but also would enable ALUCOIL to attain high-speed cycle times.
The result was Alesta Speed powder coating.

To celebrate the two-decade-long partnership, the companies are
launching a new collection of metallic powder finishes, called the Pure
Metal Collection, for aluminum sheets. The range marks an important
development for architects, designers and specifiers as, until now, it
has been difficult to match metallic colors of standard architectural
polyester powder coatings used on aluminum profiles to metallic colors
used on aluminum sheet or panels. This has created color-matching
problems on building façades between aluminum panels and aluminum
profiles.

“Axalta and ALUCOIL are more than just business associates,” says
Clemente Gonzalez Soler, President of ALUCOIL’s parent company, the
Alibérico Group, a building, transport and industrial advanced materials
specialist. “We are partners. Axalta is focused on understanding
Alibérico’s requirements and works tirelessly to anticipate those of the
future. The outstanding mechanical properties of Axalta’s powder
coating, the continual innovation in new colors and finishes, and the
high production speeds these powder coatings allow us to achieve, have
all turned this 20-year partnership into the success it is.”

The relationship started in 1997 when ALUCOIL designed and produced a
new high-speed coating line for aluminum sheet and coil and needed a
powder coating that would enable it to achieve fast production cycle
times. Today, ALUCOIL uses Alesta Speed for protective and decorative
applications to service customers across Europe, North and South
America, Australia and Morocco.

Alesta Speed offers ALUCOIL curing times that are four times faster than
standard polyester architectural powder coatings, so the coating line
runs at three to four times the rate of traditional ones. Alesta Speed
is also exceptionally flexible, which is essential for the aluminum
coils, sheets that are coated with this fast cure powder coating; they
can be shaped or bent as required without damaging the coating.

Mercè Berengueras, Axalta’s Architectural Prescription Leader Alesta
Powder Coatings for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, says, “Our
long-term relationship with ALUCOIL is based on trust, reliability and
our continuous innovation. By listening to what ALUCOIL needed 20 years
ago, and working with them today on what they will require in years to
come, we are able to help them achieve their goals every day.”

The Pure Metal Collection will be commercially available in Europe from
July 2017.

For more information on Axalta’s Alesta powder coatings visit powder.axaltacs.com.

About Axalta Coating Systems

Axalta is a leading global company focused solely on coatings and
providing customers with innovative, colorful, beautiful and sustainable
solutions. From light OEM vehicles, commercial vehicles and refinish
applications to electric motors, buildings and pipelines, our coatings
are designed to prevent corrosion, increase productivity and enable the
materials we coat to last longer. With more than 150 years of experience
in the coatings industry, the over 13,000 people of Axalta continue to
find ways to serve our more than 100,000 customers in 130 countries
better every day with the finest coatings, application systems and
technology. For more information visit axalta.com
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About ALUCOIL

ALUCOIL is a Spanish multinational company with headquarters in Miranda
de Ebro near Burgos, Spain, and part of the Alibérico Group – a
specialist in the transformation and manufacture of advanced materials
for building, transport and industry applications. ALUCOIL, with four
modern factories in four continents (Europe, Africa, America & Oceania),
is a high-tech company, innovative and growth-orientated, whose
cutting-edge production lines turn out the latest innovative products.
ALUCOIL has been manufacturing and transforming high-tech aluminum
materials for building and construction since 1996, with more than 40
years of know-how in the aluminum field. The ALUCOIL global product line
is spread over five business units. One of the five business units
supplies powder coated aluminum sheet & coil for protective and
decorative applications under the termolac^® brand.

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