The Rhombus brand wants to revolutionize the market, and now presents the Jetprint paint cabin.
The Renault 4 electrical bee is a revolutionary and uses a paint flow hundreds of times smaller. The Rhombus brand wants to revolutionize the market, and now presents the Jetprint paint cabin. A cabin equipped with two integrated robots in the manufacturing chain.
The Maubeuge factory inaugurated with Renault 4 Eeee-Tech a new technology for applying Bitono paints. Jetprint baptized paint is equipped with two robots that make the Bitono roof and a bonnet paint. They do, according to the brand, with a perfect quality in just six minutes.
Instead of a second paint application and many hours of work, this technology takes only six minutes. In this new Jetprint paint cabin, Bitoo Bitono paint and Hood of Renault 4 Electric is made with a high-qualified demarcation between the two colors.
Katell, in charge of painting, is very proud to talk about this new technology. And, she is one of those responsible for taking place in the factory of this unpublished painting technology. “Due to this innovation, Renault 4 Electric E-Tech, equipped with a canvas roof or not, offers an unpublished customization option to strengthen exclusivity, ”he explains.
“From 2025, the Maubuge factory is hosting Renault 4 E-electric, an iconic vehicle for the Renault brand, which allowed us to start with the project a revolutionary paint trade, Jetprint Paint, which allows Bito’s application,” he says. Katell, responsible for the painting service of the Renault group.
This innovation was a special challenge for Katell and Maubeuge’s painting teams. These include Frédéric, a sectorial consultant of the painting of the Renault 4 eelectric project. “The Jetprint paint does not use the same technology to paint or the same painting. Therefore, we created a specific cabin and formed the teams,” explains Frédéric.
Although the integration of this procedure in the production process is a pocket within the Renault group. Although the climax, It is first worldwide for a general producer. With this, the teams faced a double challenge. “You can say the least is that the calendar was ambitious!” Remember -Katell.
“Everything should be totally operational long before the car is marketed.” And it is that it was made in parallel with the launch of the production of the first 100% electric tourism from the Maubeuge factory. A challenge for the factory and its workers.
Bito is a technique made through two paint application in vehicles in the main manufacturing line. “Specifically, the car bodies are completely painted from the main color chosen by the client and then dried in a oven,” explains Katell.
“Then, a manual masking is performed that requires many hours of work and protection against the canvas And adhesive tape before applying a second layer of paint, only in the Bito areas, in the main cabin, ”Katell himself said.
“Productivity improves and waste is greatly reduced,” adds Frédéric. And, the Bito paint procedure is now integrated into the manufacturing chain. With that, Manual masking is no longer required, neither is the plastics and masked canvas.
Jetprint paint technology has a 100%yield, so there are no paint waste. In addition, the last stage, that of drying in the oven, is no longer necessary. By this, it is obtained the saving of the electricity consumption of 1.7 GWh per year.
“It is the annual equivalent with the consumption of 350 houses and there are 331 tons of CO2 that are not issued,” said Frédéric. The application of the paint is made with the help of a paint paint from 1 to 50 millimeters wide, oriented by the projection pressure and the severity on the body of the car.
“The future prospects of the Jetprint paint are wider than Bito”, Katell said. “Contributing to a more sustainable production and with such a qualitative finish, Jetprint Paint has a promising future within the group,” concludes Katell himself.
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