Ultimate product technologies
UV technologies
UV-A solutions
Dry at the speed of light
Highly efficient repair process
Glasurit‘s smart UV-A technology ensures quicker curing times than any other curing method used in bodyshops today. Plus there’s no need to mix hardeners into the products.
Exceptional eco-effectiveness
UV-A light offers a huge reduction in VOCs and CO2 emissions in the curing process – making it safer and easier for bodyshops to use and far better for the environment.
Greatly reduces energy use
Curing with UV-A light uses less energy and generates much lower surface temperatures, reducing the cooling phase – allowing painters to get straight onto the next stage of the repair, also reducing process times. It also means that it is no longer necessary to heat the entire spray booth or vehicle for the drying process. Plus it lowers the risk of plastic parts deforming during the refinishing process.
High painter safety
UV-A technology also enhances painter safety. UV curing lamps are fitted with a filter to block the UV-B and UV-C rays, so only UV-A wavelengths are emitted – the safest of the three wavelengths.
Eco Balance
Eco balance products
Protecting the environment is in our nature
Go green. Drive efficiency.
Less CO2
Reduce your CO2 output by up to 30%* . By choosing Eco Balance products you’re helping to reduce the consumption of fossil raw materials and in turn reducing global CO2 emissions. Something that will appeal to a broad range of customers.
More efficient
Not only does Eco Balance align with your sustainability ideals, it also empowers you with faster processes, less material consumption and in turn, more efficiency. So when you put it all together, going green with Eco Balance really does add up.
Premium quality
With commercial vehicle products, you will get high premium quality you expect from Glasurit. Plus, you will have played your part in helping us to increase the share of renewable sources in our products – a process that’s independently certified by German Technical Supervisory Association REDcert2.
We could have driven around the world 1277 times
We've already saved approximately 5.352t of CO2 since we launched our Eco Balance products. To put this in perspective, this is equivalent to driving 51.100.417 km.* *Average value of a car in Europe from 2018-2022 120g CO2/km. Since 2023 95g CO2/km.
Quite a simple calculation...
Automotive paints generally comprise mostly fossil resources, such as naphtha.
More renewable resources; fewer fossil resource
The method allows us to replace a share of the fossil resources in BASF’s Production Verbund with renewable resources.
The more, the better
The biomass balance approach involves using renewable resources such as bio-naphtha or biogas from organic waste or vegetable oils together with fossil resources during the manufacturing of basic products.
The equation
The biomass share is then mathematically allocated to certain commercial products according to the certified method.
Your influence
This means that your purchase influences the percentage of total renewable resources that are fed into our production.
Fully certified
And this is supervised and guaranteed independently by the German Technical Supervisory Association RedCert2.
Identical quality
When you use Glasurit Eco Balance, you receive exactly the same high quality you are accustomed to. But you will have contributed to helping us increase the share of renewable resources.
*BASF product carbon footprints are calculated following general standards for life cycle assessment and product carbon footprints. The product carbon footprints are assessed cradle to gate, i.e. without CO2 emissions caused during product application and end-of-life treatment. Our product carbon footprint data is based on assumptions and approximations valid at the time of data collection. For more information, please visit this page. Eco Balance products contribute to reducing the use of fossil resources and reducing the CO2 emissions via the biomass balance approach. In BASF’s biomass balance approach, renewable raw materials like bio-based naphtha and biomethane from organic waste are used as raw materials when manufacturing primary chemical products and are fed into the production Verbund. The proportion of bio-based raw materials is then arithmetically assigned to certain sales products according to a certified method. This attribution model is comparable with the principle of green electricity. For our biomass balance products, 100% of the feedstock required for these products (chemical product only / excluding packaging material) have been replaced by renewable resources. All our Eco Balance products are independently certified according to the RedCert² standard. (BASF certification number REDcert²-929-35372286). For more information, please visit this page. When reference is made to CO2 savings per traveled kilometer, a standard CO2 emission of 95 grams per travelled car kilometer is assumed. You can find more information about BASF’s biomass balance approach on this page.