On-site reports

25SET

9 metres of flexibility: the new frontier for vertical coating lines with Coroxal

The investment in a vertical powder coating line for bars up to 9 metres in length, designed by SAT, equipped with an in-line brushing machine and a Visicoat profile recognition system, and integrated with an automated profile storage facility upstream and an automatic packaging machine downstream, has marked a further step in Coroxal’s development strategy, focused on automation, efficiency, and quality. Indeed, it has resulted in a highly integrated production system capable of meeting the demands of an increasingly competitive and dynamic market.

Plants and technologies

25SET

Beyond extrusion: Estral builds a comprehensive service with support from its paint supplier

Since 1974, Estral has progressively expanded its expertise, processes, and services, evolving from a company specialising in extrusion into a partner capable of managing aluminium profiles across most of the supply chain. The implementation of powder coating operations marked the latest step in this vertical integration strategy, with supplier selection also playing a strategic role: Estral’s partnership with TIGER Coatings enables it to broaden its product range, address challenges, and better meet customer needs.

Plants and technologies

27LUG

An advanced robotic system to ensure repeatable UV coating results on heat exchangers treated with ElectroFin® technology

Robotics is not always used to speed up production: in the case of Modine CIS Italy, which has specialised in thermal management solutions for over a century, the integration of two coating robots supplied by CMA Robotics was driven by the need to ensure greater uniformity, repeatability, and control over the application of a UV top coat on heat exchangers with highly complex geometries and stringent performance requirements, which are treated using the patented ElectroFin® process.

Plants and technologies

24LUG

Colourific Coatings’ industrial project for transforming the North American powder coating market

For decades, the North American architectural aluminium market has favoured liquid paints. Today, advances in powder coating technology, together with investment in digitalisation and automation, are shifting the balance. Colourific, a long-established Canadian coating contractor specialising in architectural aluminium profiles and panels, has chosen to lead this transformation by building one of the continent’s most advanced vertical production lines in collaboration with Euroimpianti.

Plants and technologies

24LUG

A strategic choice for growth: TML invests in boiler enamelling

Starting as a small family business and growing into an international company, TML has built its success on strategic investments, insourcing individual production stages, and direct quality control. Today, the company produces around 50,000 domestic hot water boilers a year and has chosen to insource its tank enamelling process by installing an automated system designed by Trasmetal. This forward-thinking investment has increased its autonomy, flexibility, and control over a crucial stage of the production process.

Plants and technologies

24LUG

Bosch Home Comfort: a new powder coating line for heat pump components, supporting the European energy transition

Bosch’s Aveiro plant was the focus of an investment plan aimed at expanding production capacity for heat pumps destined for the European market and supporting the energy transition in the construction sector towards high-efficiency models. A new powder-coating line designed by Fimel was installed as part of the project and integrated with a hybrid curing oven fitted with Infragas’ BOOSTERCAT® catalytic IR panels.

Plants and technologies

28MAG

Fluidised bed coating: a new plant designed to meet the evolving needs of thermoplastic powders in the household appliance sector

Dradura Italia has recently installed a new fluidised bed coating plant for thermoplastic powders, developed by LEM Impianti, to expand its coating options for wire components used in the household appliance sector.

Industrial cleaning

28MAG

The right balance between cleaning technology and process chemistry ensures quality in the dental sector

Medesy, a company specialising in the manufacture of dental instruments, has identified the cleaning phase as a key process in its workflow. Through collaboration with IFP Europe and Dollmar, it has adopted a modified alcohol-based system that combines high performance with sustainability.