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Return to GLOBAL: The New Industry 4.0-Oriented Plant for Coating Aluminium Radiators Monica Fumagalli ipcm® © GLOBAL
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lways striving to offer information
required by an increasingly intensive mass production.
on surface
treatment technologies
In order not to
and products, for the
compromise the
editorial staff of our
final quality of our
magazine it is rare to have
coatings, after careful
the opportunity to visit
assessment we
a user twice in a narrow
decided to add a new
time frame in order to
plant to our existing
follow the evolution of
coating line. Our
its production system.
partner for the design
This article will provide a
and installation of
detailed overview of the
the new line was
4.0-oriented development of the paintshop of GLOBAL Srl (Rogno, Bergamo, Italy), of which we described the peculiar
Imel (Codroipo,
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Udine, Italy), which
Figure 1: Carlo Salvadori from Imel, on the left, with Sandro Panteghini in front of the monitor with the data analisys of the coating process.
anaphoresis + powder
in 2018 took care of the project and coordinated the other suppliers of
application technology for
products and plant
coating in 20171 (ref. Opening photo). As
“The demand for aluminium radiators,
components, including Gema Europe for
a well-established company for aluminium
fortunately for us, it is not expected to
the booth and Futura Convogliatori Aerei
radiators manufacturing in the both
slow down or stop,” says Alessandro
for the conveyor.”
the national and international industry,
Fardelli, GLOBAL CEO and company’s
In this project, the new production needs
GLOBAL’s production focusses on the
responsible with the President
of GLOBAL were integrated with the
significant expertise acquired in almost
Giuseppe Delasa, while updating
Industry 4.0-oriented evolution of Imel’s
fifty years of activity and on the “know
us on its production status. “After
plant technology (Fig. 1), thus creating a
how” motto that unites the Fardelli family’s
improving our processes of foundry,
synergy that led to the construction of a
generations that have led the company,
machining, and anaphoresis with the
coating line with the maximum automation
while also pervading its surrounding area.
system provided by Axalta Coatings
degree and with the data analisys aimed
System Italy, we realised that coating
at the highest degree of efficiency and
1 M. Fumagalli, Anaphoresis technology without dialysis cells: a decisive advantage for GLOBAL Radiatori, in ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine no. 47 (September/October 2017), pages 82-88.
was still a bottleneck in our production
process control (Fig. 2).
flow, as our plant was dated and no
“When we approved the new project, we
longer able to handle the workloads
had not planned to build such a futuristic
Opening photo: The coating of aluminium radiators in the new 4.0 plant of GLOBAL Srl.
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