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BASF wins General Motors supplier award
- 18/04/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
BASF has been recognised as a 2023 Supplier of the Year by General Motors. The awards recognise outstanding performance in categories such as product purchasing, global purchasing and manufacturing services, customer care, and aftersales and logistics. Uta Holzenkamp, president of the BASF Coatings division, [...] -
BASF collects prestigious innovation award
- 11/11/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
BASF’s UK Automotive Refinish team has been awarded the 2022 British Coatings Federation (BCF) Sustainable Innovation Manufacturer Award. It collected the award for its new waterborne basecoat system AGILIS by R-M, BASF’s premium refinish brand. The Sustainable Innovation award recognises and celebrates [...] -
iRG adopts R-M’s sustainable system
- 11/05/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Innovative Repair Group (iRG) has announced a partnership with R-M Automotive Refinish, BASF’s premium refinish brand, that it believes will help it meet its sustainability targets. Following a successful trial, iRG’s Pontypridd repair centre will now use the revolutionary R-M Agilis waterborne basecoat system, [...] -
BASF signs environmental pact
- 20/10/2021
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
BASF’s Automotive Refinish division has teamed up with ECA Business Energy to help it achieve carbon neutral growth until 2030 as part of its mission to achieve net zero status by 2050. ECA Business Energy has worked hand in hand with over 400 bodyshops since 2009 and since 2020 has also been supporting them to [...] -
Glasurit granted Tesla approval
- 18/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Tesla Motors has granted approval for Glasurit's refinish products for its global bodyshop network. The Glasurit 90 Line waterborne paint system was convincing in numerous tests with Tesla's vehicles, which are manufactured in a lightweight aluminum. High-level colour expertise, along with a comprehensive [...] -
R-M gains TESLA approval
- 22/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Tesla Motors has given approval for R-M automotive refinish paints for use by the Tesla distribution and bodyshop network worldwide. R-M will offer its colour competence and ONYX HD waterborne paint line which is ideally suited to the aluminium construction used in Tesla cars. In view of the high quality standards [...] -
Specialist joins BASF CTS
- 09/06/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
BASF Commercial Transport Solutions (CTS) has appointed Dean Niland as technical sales specialist to support its Glasurit 68 and R-M Graphite high solid VOC compliant paint lines. Dean has over 25 years’ experience working in the commercial transport sector. He started his career in the RAF as a painter and [...]