VW paint shop running 'full bore'

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Volkswagen's paint shop has upped its production to up to 640 cars a day as the Chattanooga assembly plant tries to meet demand for its Passat sedan, officials said today.

"We're running full bore," said Bobby Dean Parker, the paint shop's general manager, during a tour of the high-tech facility.

VW officials said the shop's environmentally friendly process is the only one at an auto plant worldwide using a system that produces no liquid paint sludge.

In the dry scrubber system, air is used in the paint shop and filtered through limestone, which is then sent to a landfill in Georgia where it's utilized in a cleansing process there, according to VW.

The company said the novel production process can save an estimated 12.5 million gallons a year.

See Thursday's Times Free Press for full story.