On-site reports

29LUG

Metalfab 5.0: Pramac’s smart factory with a new powder coating line

Pramac, a company specialising in the manufacture of generator sets and material-handling equipment, has opened a new site, insourcing, among other operations, its powder coating process. For the new line, it has chosen Silvi as the plant engineering partner, Futura as the conveyor system supplier, and Wagner for the application technology. The most innovative feature of the resulting plant is its two-lane curing oven, which automatically adjusts the dwell time of workpieces according to their mass, ensuring the coatings cure correctly without disrupting production continuity.

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

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Asturmadi Doors improved the efficiency of its coating line through the seamless integration of manual and automated handling solutions

The project to improve the efficiency of Asturmadi Doors’ coating line arose from the need to meet growing production requirements and increasingly stringent regulatory standards in the fire-rated door sector. The design and installation of the new powder application plant, carried out by Cabycal in collaboration with Nordson, involved a complete reorganisation of its layout, with particular attention to integrating manual and automatic handling systems and optimising production flows.

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.

Plants and technologies

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Prima Sole Components, where the future of automotive part coating is shaped

For a company, expanding its range of target sectors and positioning itself as the ‘factory of the future’ for automotive components requires advanced coating plants, such as the one designed by Trasmetal’s Varnish Tech division for Prima Sole Components’s Oderzo site. Based on a skid-handling system that replaces the traditional power & free conveyor, this new line enables the intensive coating of large components thanks to opposing robots inspired by the automotive industry, which increase its flexibility and application capacity.