Suzuki's Edge-eCoat anodizing tech wins Best Sustainable Product Award at Cannes Yachting Festival 2026
Suzuki's Edge-eCoat anodizing treatment for outboard motor engine parts has won the Best Sustainable Product Award at the Cannes Yachting Festival 2026, the first time the company has taken the honor.
- Approximately 68%
- DF140B, adopted August 2024
- DF140B, DF140BG, DF115BG, DF115B, DF100C
What Happened
Suzuki's anodizing treatment technology for outboard motors, named Edge-eCoat, has won the Best Sustainable Product Award in the Innovation Route Award at the Cannes Yachting Festival 2026, held in France in September. The award is presented to products and technologies that not only reduce environmental impact but also combine technological innovation and practicality. This marks the first time Suzuki has won this award. Suzuki says Edge-eCoat is the world's first surface treatment technology that applies an anodizing process to mass-produced outboard motor engine parts, based on its own research as of October 2026.
Outboard motors draw in seawater to cool the engine, so corrosion-resistant treatment is required for the cooling water passages. Edge-eCoat applies a uniform anodizing process to the engine components through which cooling water passes, achieving high corrosion resistance against seawater. The same process reduces CO2 emissions during manufacturing by approximately 68% compared with painting processes used to improve corrosion resistance, which Suzuki says contributes to the realization of carbon neutrality.
Suzuki begins adopting Edge-eCoat on the DF140B outboard motor.
Sales of the DF140B with Edge-eCoat commence.
The Cannes Yachting Festival 2026 is held in France, where Edge-eCoat wins the Best Sustainable Product Award.
Suzuki announces the award and the spread of the technology to further models.
68%
Approximately, versus painting processes used to improve corrosion resistance.
- DF140B, the first model, adopted from August 2024 with sales starting September 2024
- DF140BG
- DF115BG
- DF115B
- DF100C
- Suzuki says it will progressively be adopted to other models' specifications as well
“We are deeply honored that 'Edge-eCoat' has received the 'Best Sustainable Product Award' at the Cannes Yachting Festival. We believe this award recognizes the innovation of our Manufacturing Engineering, which, under Suzuki's deep-rooted 'Yaramaika' spirit, realized the unprecedented challenge of applying anodizing to engine components in mass-produced outboard motors, achieving both superior corrosion resistance and a reduction in environmental impact during the manufacturing process. Suzuki will continue to deliver valuable products to our customers while actively engaging in technological development toward the realization of a sustainable marine environment.”
Why this matters
The award goes to products and technologies that cut environmental impact while combining innovation with practicality, and Suzuki says Edge-eCoat also lowers manufacturing CO2 by roughly 68% versus corrosion-resistance painting. That affects outboard buyers and Suzuki's marine operations, since the treatment already sits on multiple mass-produced models.
Terms in This Story
- anodizing
- An electrochemical surface treatment that forms a protective oxide layer on metal, commonly used to improve corrosion resistance.
- outboard motor
- A self-contained propulsion unit mounted on the outside of a boat's transom that holds the engine and lower drive unit.
- carbon neutrality
- A state in which the carbon dioxide emitted is balanced by removing or offsetting an equivalent amount, giving no net emissions.
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