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Feltani Reti: Focussing on the Hanging of Aluminium Profiles
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eltani Reti Snc (Campodarsego, Padua,
customisation and production flexibility. On
Feltani is very competitive.
Italy) has passionately devoted itself
the other hand, despite allowing less creativity
“For the manufacturing of these hooks, we
to the processing of metal wire for
use C72 carbon steel, i.e. with a carbon
systems enable to achieve a high productivity
percentage of 0.72%, instead of the more
production of coating hooks. Recently, the
rate with standard products.
commonly used copper-plated steel, i.e.
company has installed a few new production
“At the end of 2018, we purchased a new
obtained by copper-plating stainless steel
systems to serve the aluminium profile
mechanical control machine able to produce
wire. Carbon steel has higher strength and
coating industry more specifically. Already a
hooks with a diameter of up to 3 mm,” says
capacity properties than copper-plated
few years ago, the transition from mechanical
Isabella Feltani, at the helm of the company
steel, which makes them suitable for
control to numerical control machines
together with her parents Moreno and
hanging profiles of all types, including the
had enabled Feltani Reti to produce hooks
Ornella. “This will enable us to increase our
heaviest and largest-section ones.”
with the most varied sizes, types, and
market share in the aluminium coating sector.
materials (normal, galvanised, or stainless
Indeed, this system will allow us to double
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steel wire) while ensuring a high degree of
our production of J-hooks, a product in which
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in the design of hooks, mechanical control
almost forty years, mainly focussing on the
Figure 1: C72 carbon steel J-hooks are ideal for hanging aluminium profiles on coating lines.
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