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Opening photo: It is very rare now to find agricultural or building machinery painted with 1K systems, at most, they are accepted for small details or parts subject to immediate wear such as the teeth of the plowshares, or the buckets, or the portable cement mixers on construction sites.
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Franchi&Kim Reliability at the Service of ACE Market Davide Terzoli Franchi&Kim Spa, Castenedolo, Brescia – Italy
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nder the acronym ACE (Agricultural -
connotations that are the basis of all three.
settled for bright and very bright colours,
Construction – Earth Moving) we mean
As far as painting is concerned, it is easy to
such as yellows, oranges and reds, and no
the market of all the machinery and
identify in the aesthetic finish, in the resistance
particularly high glosses or flow of the paint
accessories of the agricultural, construction
to corrosion and to mechanical wear, the main
were required (Fig. 1). In recent years, on the
and earth moving sectors. It is a very extended
qualities that painting systems dedicated to
other hand, in many cases it has arrived to
and various world, as each sector has both
this market must have.
sand the underlying primer coats to ensure
specific individual characteristics and common
At one time, for the aesthetic part, people
a very smooth finish without any orange peel
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