On-site reports

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

03GIU

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

28MAG

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.

Plants and technologies

27MAR

New Color, where revamping and digitalising a line made technology more universally accessible

Adopting an innovative approach to business development, powder coating contractor New Colour recently completed a full overhaul of its line. The project involved collaboration with Avin, which, in addition to acting as the prime contractor and coordinating the work, reviewed the plant layout, revamped the curing oven, and fully re-certified the plant; Futura, which replaced the existing monorail conveyor with a power & free system complete with two loading and unloading elevators; and Gema, which installed a new, state-of-the-art powder coating booth alongside the existing one. The resulting plant’s high level of technological sophistication now ensures precision, full traceability, and optimised cycle times.

Plants and technologies

27MAR

A 5.0 coating plant to support WAMGROUP’s growth and manage its diversified production

Visa Impianti has designed and built a new powder coating plant installed at WAMGROUP’s headquarters. Developed in accordance with Industry 5.0 principles, this line incorporates Wagner powder application technology and a Futura power & free conveyor system, enabling increased production capacity and the handling of a very wide range of industrial components.

Plants and technologies

27MAR

Automated application, water-based DTM coatings, and IR drying: DAB Pumps’ technical choices for the efficient, high-quality finishing of cast iron pumps

DAB Pumps, a company specialising in water pumping solutions, has decided to invest in a new state-of-the-art coating plant for the sustainable, high-quality finishing of its cast iron products. Developed in collaboration with Lesta, Wagner, Sherwin-Williams, and Deteco, the line incorporates the latest technologies in automation, energy efficiency, eco-friendly coating products, corrosion resistance, and quality standards.