Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) today announced that it has sold its 60,000th spectrophotometer, with 10,000 sold in the past 15 months. The company attributes the rapid increase in recent sales mainly to a strong global digitization trend. These increasingly popular handheld digital tools are an accurate and fast way of color matching that boost the efficiency of body shops.
“Adopting a digital approach to color matching and retrieval is a global trend that started 25 years ago when Axalta was one of the first coatings companies to offer a digital device and software to refinish customers,” Dr Martin Wulf, Axalta’s