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ARMOR Provides Long-Term Rust Prevention for Honda

Under EU legislation, all vehicle manufacturers must guarantee spares availability for a period of time after the model/version is discontinued. Honda policy is to make parts for obsolete models available for 15 years, and they encourage their supply chain to support them in this position. However, this is not always possible for many reasons. For example, tooling may be obsolete, worn, or beyond practical repair. Tooling may also be re-used with modifications for the new part(s). In cases like these, Honda will pursue a “last time buy” exercise with the supplier. This exercise generates a requirement to store these parts for (in theory) 15 Years!

For unpainted metal items, items must be stored in a way to prevent rust for this entire length of time, to ensure the part is usable when called to action. When Honda was looking for a better solution to messy rust prevention liquids and quality checking processes, they came to ARMOR for help.

Complete Long-Term Rust Prevention

Keep Reading To See How!

THE FACTS

Industry: Automotive

Metal Parts: Unpainted door sashes

Previous Rust Prevention Process: Liquid rust prevention coating

This is a project carried out by Honda’s Logistics Centre. The “Door Sash” will ultimately be assembled (welded/glued) into the door body when required for use. Since this is likely to be in the event of a vehicle accident repair, the item(s) must remain unpainted.

Problems with Previous Rust-Prevention Process:

Components had a high risk of corrosion due to stresses on metal during processing (welding, bending, handling, etc.)
Manual handling needed upgrading
Used messy rust preventative liquids that only provided limited short-term corrosion protection
Existing packaging actually created corrosion hazards
Lacked an established system for visually checking components — without unpacking — during 15-year storage
A one-off solution needed to avoid repacking

ARMOR SOLUTION

Long-Term, Verifiable Rust Prevention

The packaging of the “door sashes” was changed based on recommendations to include:

An outer pack of pallet stackable cardboard crates – Allowing maximum space utilization
A barrier foil bag – Style “BB1 – L – EZ” used as a box liner
Desiccant packs used for moisture control
Humidity Indicator card to alert Honda of any signs of damage
An ARMOR POLY® VCI bag – sealed with tape – for each door sash to provide – Mechanical Protection – Long-term, anti-corrosion controlled environment
Parts wrapped in 30G ARMOR WRAP® VCI Paper for immediate VCI protection

BEFORE

honda door sashes with rust from inadequate storage

AFTER

THE RESULTS

Streamlined Protection & Proven Results! By switching from a process that used messy, short-term rust preventative liquids and inadequate packaging, to a comprehensive ARMOR Protective Packaging system, Honda’s Logistics Centre successfully secured its “door sash” inventory for long-term storage. By utilizing custom solutions, including ARMOR POLY VCI bags, barrier foil liners, and humidity indicators, the team achieved a reliable, corrosion-free, and space-efficient storage method capable of supporting their 15-year spares availability policy. When components stored in 2011 were finally unpacked, every single item remained in excellent, rust-free condition.

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Armor Protective Packaging provides clean, safe, easy and effective rust prevention and rust removal products that are designed to protect metal while In-process, during transport or in storage. For 40 years, ARMOR has worked with customers from around the globe to provide rust prevention and rust removal solutions to “Take the Work Out of YourWorkday!”