OXIDAL SYSTEM – NEW TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANODIC OXIDATION PROCESSES FOR A HUGE RANGE OF FINISHES Oxidal System - Innovazione tecnologica nei processi di ossidazione anodica per una vastissima gamma di finiture Francesco Stucchi - Editorial Director/Direttore Editoriale
Opening Photo - The anodic bars go into the fixing tanks, the last stage of the treatment before drying Foto d’Apertura - Le barre anodiche in entrata nelle vasche di fissaggio, ultima fase del trattamento prima dell’asciugatura
28 2010 JANUARY/gennaio - international PAINT&COATING magazine
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xidal System (fig.1) is located in Inverigo, in the heart of the dynamic area of Brianza: starting business last September, the company can count on the decades of experience of its founders, including Ivana Colciago who opened the doors of this brand new company to us (fig.2). “Oxidal System – explained Ivana Colciago – was established in order to increase the production capacity of the old company, which went under another name. Recently demand has been continually growing and, independently of the crisis, more and more companies have been asking for the polishing and satin finishing of aluminium products. We realised that our machinery was obsolete and the space very limited, and we realised that this could have compromised the growth we had planned. So we decided to make a serious