On-site reports

09DIC

At Demo Serbatoi, Production Continuity is Ensured by the Paint Manufacturer’s Foresight

One of the most challenging fields of application for paint manufacturers is that of storage tanks, as these containers require protection against both the weather that attacks them externally and the chemicals inside them. Mirodur, a producer of industrial and protective coatings, has won the trust of one of the giants in this sector, Italian company Demo Serbatoi, thanks to its products’ high quality and performance but also its foresight, enabling to anticipate customer needs with formulations developed with a view to future enhancement.

Coatings, Plants and technologies

09DIC

Reducing Overspray, Increasing Productivity: Mascar Installed a New Purification System for the Effluent of Its Coating Booths’ Water Curtains

To ensure greater efficiency and further commit to sustainability, Mascar turned to industrial water treatment expert Water Energy to clean the liquid that feeds their overspray-capturing water curtains, installing a Skimmerflot 5000 system.

Plants and technologies

29NOV

Connecting a New, Advanced Coating Plant to Assembly Lines with a Futuristic Handling System. Comel’s Winning Choice

Maximum efficiency in using energy resources and coating products, premium coating quality in terms of parameters such as coverage, film distension, thickness uniformity, and finish, but also increased coating capacity and reduced assembly lead time. These were the objectives specified and achieved by Comel with its project for a new automatic powder coating plant integrated with its internal assembly logistics, which involved Futura, Imel, Wagner, Lesta, and Chemetall.

Plants and technologies

27NOV

When the Coating Plant Engineering Company’s Technological Approach Makes a Difference

Two companies united by the same technological approach to customer needs: FAE, a world leader in the production of forestry, agricultural, road, and demining machinery, has chosen to work with SAVIM Europe for the installation of a new coating system that combines manual and automatic application in a small space and handles bulky parts efficiently thanks to a CM Automazione conveyor. An example of how a plant engineering company can grasp its customers’ needs and turn them into the ideal design, regardless of the size of the coating line.

Corrosion Protection

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Donelli Eos’ Strategic Role in the Corrosion Protection of Offshore Structures

Thanks to its favourable location in the port of Ravenna (Italy), Donelli Eos, a Donelli Group company specialising in anti-corrosion coating and fireproofing of offshore structures, has become a benchmark supplier not only for shipbuilding businesses in the port but also for firms throughout Italy that need to adequately protect their structures against corrosion before they are exposed to the harsh environmental conditions caused by the salinity of the sea.

Coatings

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Metallic and Special-Effect Powder Coatings for Emboss’ Three-Dimensional Cladding Surfaces

Powder coating, with its evolving colour, decorative, and aesthetic effects that imitate natural surfaces and improve both the appearance and the functional performance of the treated components, is increasingly the preferred choice of architects and designers for finishing architectural elements, such as metal cladding. That is also thanks to the collaboration and joint experimentation between metal panel manufacturers and powder coating manufacturers. In this article, we recount the professional partnership between Emboss Panels, a specialist in the production of metal panels with three-dimensional effects, and TIGER Coatings, which supplies it with special-effect, matte and flat matte, metallic, and anodised-like powder coatings to enrich its products’ sculpted surfaces.

Plants and technologies

30SET

Azeta Confirms Itself as a Pioneer in Aluminium Coating Through a New Vertical Line Combined with an Innovative IPS Powder Feeding System

Based in Muro Leccese, in the Salento region of Apulia (Italy), Azeta Srl was one of the first businesses in this area to specialise in the processing and surface treatment of aluminium and the first to patent, in the 1990s, a wood-effect coating applied with a liquid-on-powder cycle on this material. It is also the first company in the Italian aluminium industry to have recently installed an automatic vertical powder coating plant by Euroimpianti for profiles combined with Wagner’s latest powder feeding and control device, the IPS system, to increase its production capacity and reorganise its workforce more effectively.

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The Perfect Combination of Mechanical and Chemical Pre-Treatment Improves the Corrosion Protection of the Coatings Applied on ABF Color’s Heavy and Light Metal Fabrications

Powder coating contractor ABF Color has identified mechanical pre-treatment as the key to its success. This company was indeed one of the last coaters to be established in its area but one of the first to install a shot blasting machine from Carlo Banfi, now an OMSG brand, for the mechanical pre-treatment of large parts. In 2023, it acquired its third coating plant, retaining its trusted suppliers, including OMSG, Silvi, Gema, and Futura, and combining mechanical pre-treatment with a chemical stage for even more effective substrate preparation.