Hamburg – Another A380 coated with Mankiewicz BC/CC paint system will shortly be launched: Air France is the next Airline which chose this paint system for its A380. Various Boeing 737 and 747 as well as the Airbusses A330 of the Australian Qantas and the Dutch KLM airlines were coated with the BC/CC- System two years ago.
Less weight means lower costs: each saved Kilogam is equivalent to approximately 2,000 EUR less fuel costs per year. For example, the Japanese cargo carrier NCA saved 45 kg of paint when coating its Boeing 747-400; this is equivalent to 42 drum cans (8400 Litres) of fuel which would have produced 21 tons of CO2 per year. After application of the BC/CC-System the company started an ecological campaign and named this cargo carrier the “Green Freighter”.
Even extreme climate between -60 °C and + 60 ° C does not adversely affect the Mankiewicz paint system. For two years now Airbus and Qantas have been documenting the excellent prop-erties the paint system offers: Colour and gloss are still brilliant after years of use, the extremely smooth surface allows for less frequent cleaning cycles, thus saving environmentally harmful cleaning agents.
Application of the Mankiewicz BC/CC System is considerably faster; instead of the usual twelve hours drying time between several layers of paint only two to four hours are required. In the refurbishment sector this offers many process benefits to both the MRO and ultimately its cus-tomer, this saves a lot of time and gets the aircraft back into service and profitable use quickly. The Clearcoat, with its sealing effect, ensures that the coating is more durable but also far more brilliant than conventional aircraft paints – and stays that way, even in regions with extremely high UV radiation such as Australia.
“The Basecoat/Clearcoat technology is our invention. We were the first to establish this technology in the market, which is why we are the only company that is fully approved”, says Mr Andreas Ossenkopf, Head of the Mankiewicz Aviation Department. “While other suppliers are now trying hard to get their aircraft paints – which are based on our technology – ready to market, ours have been already successfully used for years.”
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