Technical articles

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Coatings
04GIU

Cuando el acabado y el color transforman el juego en un icono del diseño

RS Barcelona, empresa líder en el mundo de las mesas de juego como futbolines, mesas de ping-pong, billares y shuffleboards, ha transformado profundamente el papel de estos productos, elevándolos de simples objetos recreativos a auténticas piezas de diseño. Hoy sus creaciones están concebidas para integrarse en entornos de alto nivel como hoteles, residencias de lujo, oficinas y espacios hospitality. Para responder a estas exigencias cada vez más vinculadas al diseño y a la arquitectura, colabora desde hace más de 15 años con AkzoNobel, que suministra recubrimientos en polvo de altas prestaciones para aplicaciones arquitectónicas.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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