Recently, Hangzhou Enoch Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. (“Enoch”) and Yatu Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. (“Yatu”) officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement, announcing that the two companies will jointly advance the rollout of AI-powered intelligent spraying around the theme of “AI + Coatings.” Under the agreement, the two parties will focus on four key directions — intelligent spraying solutions for premium refinish paints, an intelligent digital color platform, the integrated deployment of spraying robots × coatings, and global market expansion — reshaping the automotive color service chain through the ecosystem-level fusion of “AI capabilities × material capabilities.”

At the Enoch × Yatu signing ceremony

With vehicle model iterations accelerating and OEM color codes continuously expanding, color development lead times and formula-service response speed have become the core bottlenecks constraining the large-scale expansion of coatings companies. At the same time, the shortage of professional spray technicians and quality fluctuations in manual spraying are driving increasingly urgent demand for standardization and intelligence at the point of application. As representative players in China’s intelligent automotive spraying track and the premium automotive coatings sector, the Enoch–Yatu strategic partnership is a direct response to this industry-wide challenge.

1. Co-Developing a Premium Automotive Refinish Paint Product System and Building Intelligent Spraying Solutions

The two companies will jointly build a premium automotive refinish paint product system. Leveraging SHOWELL, Yatu’s premium automotive refinish paint brand, they will launch the Enoch premium automotive refinish paint series, covering the complete refinish system from primer to topcoat — body filler, primer, midcoat, basecoat, clearcoat, hardener, and thinner — to deliver an integrated intelligent spraying solution with one-stop, all-in-one provisioning.

ENOCH Premium Automotive Refinish Paint Series

At the product level, the series delivers “three integrations”:

Integrated color standards: Enoch’s color measurement and color-matching systems are unified, with formula data synced and updated in the cloud;

Aligned process standards: A unified underlying technical logic matches materials across the full primer-to-topcoat chain, ensuring stable and controllable application quality;

Complete service standards: Integrated with Enoch’s technical training, intelligent color algorithms, remote color-matching support, and warranty system, providing shops with end-to-end assurance across purchasing, application, and after-sales service.

For auto-refinishing shops, this integrated solution stabilizes application results, accelerates vehicle delivery, and helps shops better control overall costs.

2. Co-Building an Intelligent Digital Color Platform and Driving the Industry’s Digital and Intelligent Upgrade

Yatu brings a mature tinting colorant system and deep color R&D expertise, while Enoch contributes its proprietary color large-model algorithms. Together, the two companies will build a dedicated digital color-matching model for Yatu’s tinting system, achieving “measure the color, get the formula.” By scanning the paint surface with Enoch’s spectrophotometer device, shops can quickly obtain the matching formula.

The two parties will also jointly build a remote color service platform that connects the full chain of “headquarters formula R&D — cloud formula library — intelligent on-site color matching.” Headquarters can complete new color code development and formula validation online and push formulas and color-matching guidance to outlets at home and abroad in real time. When shops encounter challenging colors, they can upload measurement data for joint remote diagnosis by experts from both companies, who will iteratively optimize the formula — significantly reducing technicians’ cross-region travel.

This color service system — available online 7×12 hours and remotely replicable — breaks the geographic and manpower limits of traditional color-matching services, empowering more auto-refinishing partners and jointly advancing the digital transformation of the automotive refinishing industry.

3. Integrating AI Spraying-Painting Robots × Coatings to Deepen Cooperation Across OEM Ecosystems

Enoch’s AI-powered intelligent spraying-painting robots and Yatu’s high-performance coatings will form an integrated solution, with both parties jointly pursuing in-depth cooperation with OEMs and their after-sales service systems. Enoch will embed Yatu coatings’ application process parameter windows directly into its robot process library, achieving full digitalization of “color formula + application process.” This delivers stable, standardized, and reproducible intelligent application — a one-stop service from materials to spraying for OEMs and 4S dealership systems.

Enoch’s intelligent spraying workshop

Compared with traditional manual spraying, Enoch’s intelligent spraying-painting robots offer three advantages:

More accurate — color reproduction is data-driven, no longer dependent on a master technician’s feel and experience;

More consistent — spray trajectory, atomization pressure, and inter-coat intervals are fully standardized, ensuring identical quality across every job;

Faster — process parameters are matched automatically, cutting color-matching and trial-spray time and improving delivery efficiency.

Enoch’s intelligent spraying robots are about to enter mass production and will first be made available to OEMs, 4S dealerships, and large auto-refinishing centers.

4. Going Global Together to Expand the Worldwide Automotive Aftermarket

Leveraging Enoch’s overseas service capabilities and Yatu’s global market footprint covering more than 100 countries and regions, the two companies will bring “China’s color solutions” to the world. For overseas repair networks, OEMs, and channel partners, they will jointly deliver integrated intelligent solutions spanning color measurement, color matching, and spraying, strengthening the competitiveness of Chinese brands in the global automotive aftermarket.

Outlook

Color is fast becoming a new growth driver in the automotive aftermarket. The Enoch–Yatu partnership is not only a strategic choice by two companies — it is an ecosystem-level fusion of “AI capabilities” and “material capabilities.” Looking ahead, the two parties will continue to deepen color intelligence and spraying intelligence, bringing “Created in China” color solutions to every vehicle around the world.

Enoch × Yatu: Co-Building an AI-Powered Intelligent Spraying Ecosystem