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Please Blast, Dip, Powder a 100 Times Truck trailers are useful, but also big and heavy. This does not make their transport in the paintshop easy. Giga Coating GmbH recently built a completely new surface treatment plant in Twist. Here, up to 15.7 m long and 9 t heavy large parts are not only coated, but also blasted, dipped, swiveled and heat treated in hanging furnaces. The automated circulation principle creates capacities for up to 100 trailers and special parts per day in two construction stages.
manufacturing depth. So far, the chassis
“And we wanted to solve that,” explains Ralf
demand for truck trailers in Europe is
was given to external partners only for the
Saatkamp, Managing Director of System
high. At System Trailers Fahrzeugbau
coating process. “We had been thinking for
Trailers Fahrzeugbau. At the same time,
GmbH in Twist on the Dutch border in
some time about taking over the coating
he realized that contract coating of large
Lower Saxony, more than 3500 of these
ourselves. In our production line, we have
parts in Emsland is a growth market. The
leave the production line every year - 70
achieved a high degree of automation
dimensioning of the new coating plant was
to 80 vehicles a week. The specialist
and could thus shorten the cycle times by
therefore planned with buffers for external
designs and manufactures on behalf of
30%. The remaining bottleneck was the
orders and at the same time the subsidiary
well-known manufacturers and has a high
capacity for coating outside the company.
Giga Coating was set up as a contract
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Whether semi-trailers or trailers - the
At Giga Coating, large parts weighing up to 9 t and over 15 m long are coated in circulation.
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N. 62 - MARCH/APRIL 2020 - international PAINT&COATING magazine