Nippon Paint Banks On Technology

Aiming at a leadership position in commercial vehicles segment, space by 2021, Nippon Paint is banking on technology.

- Gunjan D. Bidani

In-line with the growing preference for factory-built CVs in India, Nippon Paint (India) introduced wet-on-wet paint technology recently. It revealed its ambition to attain a leadership position in commercial vehicle segment by 2021 in the process. Doing so at a time when CV manufacturers are increasingly investing in new production technologies, the wet-on-wet paint technology aims at helping manufacturers to maximise asset utilisation and minimise capital expenditure. Following hot on the heels of Nippon’s ‘Xpress’ paint technology, which involves the establishment of body and paints repair centres at the retail level to cut processing times, the wet-on-wet technology, given the new regulatory changes where trucks could be painted in any colour rather than the uniform dark brown colour as long as the words ‘N/P’ for ‘National Permit’ is written at the front and back, makes an interesting offering.