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Opening picture: The new paintshop at Nordautomation Oy.
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A Record-large Production Hall Got Pekotek’s Surface Treatment System Marko Karttunen Pekotek Oy, Reijola, Finland
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© Pekka Rajakangas
he forestry and sawmill technology 10,800 square meters. The new hybrid hall services, and thereby to increase the turnover. company Nordautomation Oy has made doubles the surface treatment facilities of After the investment, the production facilities the largest investment in its history in Nordautomation, which features the blasting increased from 7,500 square meters to the production facilities located rooms and three painting rooms. in Alajärvi. This production The new production facilities hall is one of the largest in enable the surface treatment of the Nordic countries. Pekotek long and wide objects (Fig. 1). supplied it with custom-made The inside height of the new surface treatment systems and hybrid hall reaches up to 16 equipment (ref. Opening picture). meters, the width is 55 meters, Tenho Saarimaa, the production and the length is 66 meters. The manager of Nordautomation Oy, length of the painting chambers is pleased with the new modern is no less than 30 meters. production hall in Alajärvi, which In the new hall, the machine was completed in March 2017. shop is located directly next The aim was to make the surface to the painting chambers. On treatment more environmentally the first floor, there are office 1 friendly, to increase energy spaces for designers. In front efficiency, to decrease the of all these facilities, there is a Figure 1: Tenho Saarimaa, on the left, of Nordautomation with Petri production lead time of surface cold storage room, where the Rautiainen, Manager Development and Service of Pekotek Oy, in front of treatment, to increase the components wait for the surface the long and heavy components for the forestry and sawmill technology painted by the Finnish company. capacity of the engineering shop treatment.
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