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Dürr EcoProBooth Earns Automotive PACE Pilot Award 2025
Modular booth concept reduces the energy consumption of spray booths for painting automotive exterior and interiors while flexibly accommodating all car types.
Edited by Jenn Cammel
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EcoProBooth combines interior and exterior painting in one booth. Source | Dürr Systems Inc.
A Dürr Systems Inc. (Southfield, Michigan) innovation, the EcoProBooth, has earned the company a 2025 Automotive News PACE Pilot Award. The platform’s modular box layout advances the painting process, the company reports, and the EcoProBooth’s flexible design accommodates different car body sizes and painting processes, reducing energy, paint and solvent consumption.
“We are proud that our technology has been recognized as a groundbreaking innovation that will be shaping the automotive industry,” says Daniel Ackermann, senior manager product management at Dürr. “With 14 patent applications, nine of which have already been granted, Dürr’s EcoProBooth is set to achieve new benchmarks in energy efficiency and cost savings.”
The EcoProBooth, combined with the EcoBell4 Pro generation, enables both vehicle interiors and exteriors to be painted in the same booth using either solvent- or water-based paints. The universal atomizers generate narrow jets for the interior and wide jets for the exterior, including the use of metallic paints. This eliminates the need to move car bodies between spray booths, which saves time. Tasks are distributed effectively, allowing idle robots to undergo cleaning or maintenance without production downtime. For this, robots can move to integrated service cubicles located in each corner of the spray booth.
The booth size accommodates all car types, from compact models to SUVs. Instead of a traditional linear layout with fixed cycle times, the painting boxes are arranged in a parallel production layout such as Dürr’s “paint shop of the future.” This enables flexible tact times and maximum efficiency. Additionally, EcoProBooth achieves a 95% air recirculation rate, using only 5% fresh air — minimizing energy consumption and CO2 emissions. In total, it reduces energy use by up to 80% compared to wet scrubbers in classic lines and by 45% compared to conventional dry scrubbers in line.
The fifth annual PACE Pilot program was presented by Automotive News. The competition was open to suppliers and startups that invented products, software/IT systems or processes and idea incubators that have the capacity to transform the automotive industry.