ipcm® n. 64 - July/August 2020

APO Small Parts Coating GmbH is specializing in decorative and functional coatings with modern lacquer systems.

FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY

Growing from a Garage Operation to a Coating Specialist with State-of-the-Art Machinery Antonio Pozo APO Small Parts Coating GmbH – Alsdorf, Germany antonio.pozo@apo.ac Frank Siegel Walther Trowal GmbH & Co. KG – Haan, Germany f.siegel@walther-trowal.de

Ever since it was founded as a small parts coating specialist, APO has relied on the Rotamat coaters from Walther Trowal and today is running ten units of this machine type. From modest beginnings this proverbial garage start-up developed into a coating job shop with, worldwide, the highest number of Rotamat coaters in operation. They work so cost-efficient that APO can easily compete with suppliers from low-wage countries. Today the company coats about one billion parts per year.

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ipcm® n. 64 - July/August 2020

Published on Jul 27, 2020Technology & Computing

ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine

After two issues in which we dealt extensively with the impact of Covid19 on the economy and with the ways in which the surface treatment sector has put its technologies at the service of the fight against this virus, this summer issue of ipcm® is simply aimed at offering you plenty of prompts to stimulate “good ideas”. Technological, process, management, and product ideas. Success stories, unprecedented systems, new lines started up through digital technologies, unconventional surface treatments (once again, also useful for sanitising surfaces), and research on better performing raw materials. In a word, a positive framework, clearly showing the European industry’s industriousness and dynamism.

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