INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
NitroBoxSpray® Revolutionises the Nitrogen Coating Concept: Better Performance at Low Costs Both In-House and On Site Ottavio Milli Eurosider, Grosseto, Italy
info@eurosider.com
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urosider, an Italian company
amount of nitrogen necessary for the
Benefits of NitroBoxSpray®
based in Grosseto, designs
consumption required by spray guns.
- Overspray reduction;
and builds coating systems
This helps eliminate any pressure
- better spreading of the film applied;
using nitrogen as the paint carrier
drops due to the disparity in the
- improved performance and,
instead of compressed air. This
production of nitrogen compared
therefore, coating results;
ensures greater effectiveness
with the actual application needs.
and better application yield for
Thanks to a Eurosider patent,
- reduction of the spray paint booth’s maintenance and cleaning times;
any type of coating system. For
- reduction of investment
several years now, Eurosider has
costs;
been providing the market with its devices NitroThermSpray® (Fig. 1), internationally patented and suitable for feeding liquid coatings, and Polifluid®, designed for thermosetting powder coatings (Fig. 2) and already described on the ipcm® magazine. The latest innovation developed by Eurosider is the NitroBoxSpray
®
system (ref. Opening photo), which represents the technological evolution of NitroThermSpray®. This compact and economical nitrogen production machine is
- reduction of coating
Eurosider, an Italian company based in Grosseto, designs and builds coating systems using nitrogen as the paint carrier instead of compressed air. This ensures greater effectiveness and better application yield for any type of coating system. For several years now, Eurosider has been providing the market with its devices NitroThermSpray®, internationally patented and suitable for feeding liquid coatings, and Polifluid®, designed for thermosetting powder coatings.”
consumption by 20 to 50%.
Overspray reduction At any given pressure, compressed air moves at a velocity of nitrogen of 7.2 m per second, while nitrogen at 13.7 m per second, i.e. almost double. This results in a lower pushing pressure, so much so that the pressure values are halved in the atomisation phase. This,
installed between the compressor
in turn, greatly reduces
and the coating application point and it can be integrated directly
the absence of tanks simplifies
overspray and, therefore, any risk
into the spray paint booth or
the management, control, and
of contamination of the coated
placed in its vicinity, depending
maintenance of this system, thus
surface due to paint rebound
on the space available. One of the
making it particularly suitable for
and of any coating emission. It
most innovative characteristics of
robotised coating lines such as, for
also facilitates the maintenance
this new system is the absence of
example, cupboard door coating flat
and cleaning operations of the
tanks, since it produces the exact
lines.
booths.
Opening photo: The new NitroBoxSpray® system designed by Eurosider.
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