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Opening photo: The manual coating application on different sized parts on which the maskings used can be clearly seen.
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Shorter Takt Times thanks to Special Maskings for Different Workpieces Monica Fumagalli ipcm®
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xcellent finishing quality, high flexibility, speed of delivery and focus on innovation are common concepts in the contracting coating sector. Especially for SMEs, such features may be crucial for acquiring new customers and thus represent a distinguishing element from competitors. However, investments made by small and mediumsized coating contractors to keep focus on these elements often require big sacrifices. That of Verniciatura Braglia (Zola Pedrosa, Bologna, Italy) is the story of a winning business idea born in the Sixties, which, over the years, has enabled a small handicraft company to establish itself in a highly
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competitive market, that of the motomotive industry’s satellite activities. “In our plant, we treat any kind of coatable metal component,” says Carla Braglia, the owner of the company together with her sister Patrizia (Fig. 1). “Our customers come from very different fields, such as medical, motorcycle, footwear, and household and commercial furnishings (ref. Opening photo). However, given the area in which we are located, the motorcycle industry is the one that has accounted and still accounts for the greatest part of our activity. We work with leading industry brands, such as Ducati, BMW, Triumph and Yamaha; we coat their mechanical parts, in particular fork stabilisers, carters and suspensions.