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Opening photo: Mapsa, a part of the Corporación Mondragón, the eighth Spanish business group, provides all major OEMs with its alloy wheels: PSA Group, Opel, Seat, Volkswagen-Audi Group, Kia, and Ford.
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How to Coat 700 Alloy Wheels per Hour with One Plant: Mapsa’s Solution Alessia Venturi ipcm®
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ith a speed of 7.99 m/min., it
with innovative solutions to solve the typical
These are just some of the features of
is among the fastest coating
and unique problems of wheel coating
the turnkey plant designed and built
lines in use in the alloy wheel
processes, now intensified by the industry’s
by Olpidürr (Milan, Italy), the world
industry and one of the largest in the
strict specifications, such as wheel shape,
competence centre for alloy wheels of the
world in terms of productivity. It was
paint thicknesses, presence of surface
German group Dürr, and installed by the
designed with an Industry 4.0-oriented
areas not to be coated, oven temperature
Spanish cooperative Mapsa (Pamplona,
approach for full traceability of wheels,
control profiles, temperature at the exit
Spain) in 2018. With a productivity of almost
each of which is matched with its actual
from coolers, and soft wheel grip during
700 alloy wheels per hour – 685, to be
process parameters. It is also equipped
transfer among synchronised circuits.
precise – this is an imposing plant, built
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