SAIPA Automotive Group has always been a leader in the automotive paint sector, as it uses advanced robots, paints and solvents in accordance with the latest technology.
SAIPA uses paint layers thicker than the approved standards for ensuring superior quality.
The thickness of car paint in SAIPA products is controlled daily in each working shift and documented. This conforms with related regulations followed by global carmakers, Donyaye Khodro reported.
The warranty for paints used in the company’s products is valid for 3-5 years.
According to modern standards, car paint thickness should range from 80 to 140 microns, which consists of electrophoretic deposition coating, primer and surface paint. This is while the thickness of paint in all the company’s products is between 100 and 120 microns.
In fact, SAIPA is considered a frontrunner in the localization of the latest car paint technologies.
Two years ago, the robotic and fully automatic paint line of SAIPA’s Pelasko-Kar was launched in the Caspian Industrial Town of Qazvin. This line has 12 paint spraying robots that have an annual capacity of painting 720,000 bumpers in 14 colors.
These robots use the latest paint powder technology called Atomize and convert liquid paint into powder at a speed of 19,000-60,000 rpm and then spray.
Two flame-retardant robots with two types of liquefied petroleum gas and CNG and two robots with ester spraying are employed to paint cars.
Ten years ago, the central control system of the paint salon (CCS ROOM) of Pars Khodro, which is affiliated with SAIPA Group, was launched.
CCS Room can precisely and virtually monitor the entire production process of the paint salon such as ED preparation and furnaces.
The paint salon of Pars Khodro Company, with its ability to diversify paint spraying, handles 1,000 cars per day, which makes the salon one of the best color salons in the Middle East.
25% of SAIPA’s Output Produced in Two Months
SAIPA Industrial Group produced 397,000 cars last year, of which a quarter were manufactured in the last two months of the fiscal 2021-22 (Jan. 21-March 20), according to the group’s CEO.
"In the two months, 94,000 cars were delivered to customers,” Mohammad Ali Teymouri was also quoted as saying by Donyaye Khodro.
“In order to fulfill the eight-article decree of the president, which was announced late last year, the daily production of this automaker has increased to 1,500 units since April 3. This is an important step to produce 650,000 vehicles in SAIPA in the new Iranian year [started March 21],” he added.
The decree underscores the need to increase the country's car production 1.5 times, enhance the quality of products, replace cars produced on old platforms with new and updated products and increase the warranty of cars offered from two years or 40,000 kilometers to three years or 60,000 kilometers.
"The number of incomplete cars in the parking lot was about 80,000 on Jan. 13, 2022, which decreased to 43,500 until March 20 and is expected to reach 20,000 by April 21," SAIPA’s CEO said.
"All our efforts are aimed at accelerating the completion of parking lots’ incomplete cars and increase car production for the implementation of the decree and reduction of car prices."
Teymouri noted that the completion of incomplete cars and rise in daily production caused the prices of SAIPA's cars in the market to decline in the last months of the previous year, pointing out that for instance, the price of Tiba declined by 90 million rials ($325).
Moreover, SAIPA Automotive Group, in order to calm the car market and supply cars to “real applicants”, started the first one-year presale of six of its products from April 6.
In order to fulfill its obligations and respond appropriately to the needs of customers, the automaker has started a one-year presale of Shahin J, Quick S, Quick R with normal gearbox, Quick with normal gearbox, Saina S and SAIPA SE 151 with M13 engine.
Output of Heavy Vehicles Jumps by 112%
The cumulative output of trucks, vehicle pullers and semi-trucks hit 12,382 vehicles in the fiscal 2021-22 soared by 112% year-on-year.
IKCO had a share of 5,357 units in the production of these vehicles, which shows a growth of 85% year-on-year.
SAIPA produced a total of 1,092 trucks, vehicle pullers and semi-trucks, up 117.5% compared to the previous year.
Although this sector has the largest increase in production, the domestic output still does not meet the needs of the market. As a result, the government has announced plans to import new and secondhand cars to remove the deficit and create competition in the monopolized domestic automotive sector.
