South KoreaChemicals and materials2025 – ongoing

KCC

AI color matching in paint production

KCC said AI cut automotive-paint color matching from 2 hours to 30 minutes or less

WorkingCompany's own claim

Problem

Paint color matching required repeated coating, drying and visual checks. These iterations consumed production time and wasted paint.

Approach

KCC introduced AI-based color matching at its Jeonju automotive-paint factory. The system reduced the need for physical test coatings. KCC also reported shorter matching times for architectural paint.

Results

30 minutes or lessautomotive-paint matching time, previously averaging 2 hours, according to KCCCompany's own claim[1]

2 hoursarchitectural-paint matching time, previously up to 6 hours, according to KCCCompany's own claim[1]

Takeaway

The reported savings concerned the color-matching step. They did not measure total paint-production time.

Sources

KCC, AI 조색시스템으로…공정 시간 최대 75% 단축
The Korea Economic Daily14 Apr 2025News article

Source summaries

[1]The Korea Economic Daily14 Apr 2025

KCC reported shorter automotive and architectural paint-matching times after introducing AI. Automotive matching fell from 2 hours to 30 minutes or less; architectural matching fell from up to 6 hours to 2 hours.

Full details are in the original sources.

Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026