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Fendt and Claas, to name a few – it is the it has installed a water demineralisation he last 2016 issue of ipcm® perfect example of a company that has plant to optimise the final rinsing stage of and the conference we held on managed to adapt to such demands for its pre-treatment process and thus obtain December 14th were both devoted increasingly high performance coatings. perfectly clean surfaces prior to painting. In to the technological evolution of finishing Besides developing the most appropriate order to do so, CBM has cooperated with treatments in the field of Agricultural, coating process to improve its final results, Water Energy, a company based in San Pietro Construction and Earthmoving (ACE) in Casale (Bologna, Italy), specialising in waste equipment. We highlighted that, while water treatments. The aim was to improve the aesthetic quality level of the ACE the washing efficiency level and make the machinery is now comparable to that of production process smoother, eliminating the the automotive industry, the corrosion and CBM has installed a need for touch-up operations due to a nonshock resistance performance required water demineralisation suitable metal pre-treatment process. to the former is even higher than that plant to optimise the final imposed for the latter. The search for rinsing stage of its preThe company new application systems able to meet treatment process and “With nearly fifty years of experience,” CBM’s the demands of the major players in the thus obtain perfectly clean Manufacturing Manager Daniele Iaquinto says market is constant and their development surfaces prior to painting” to introduce his company, “we are among is a permanent test bed. the major OEMs in the We will deal again world for the design, with these issues manufacture and supply in this article about of hooking, towing CBM Spa Costruzioni and lifting systems Meccaniche, a wellfor implements and established company trailers connected based in Modena and/or coupled with (Italy) and specialised tractors. Established in in the agricultural the late ‘70s, this firm machinery sector. It has remained a family has been producing business. Omero Cornia, tractor hooking, towing and lifting systems its founder, is still active since 1967 and is now and present in the a leading company at company (Fig. 1).” the international level. CBM is now managed by Thanks to its relationship the second generation 1 with key stakeholders of the family, leading a in the sector – John group made up of five Figure 1: From right to left: Omero Cornia, the founder of CBM, Elisabetta Masotti, the Deere, CNH Industrial, companies with about Sales Office Coordinator of Water Energy, and Daniele Iaquinto, the Manufacturing Manager of CBM, in the show room of the Modena headquarters. Same Deutz-Fahr, Agco 900 employees. In the
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