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Treating the Surfaces of Pressure Equipment Marcello Zinno UCIF - Italian Surface Treatment Equipment Manufacturers’ Association, Milan
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he training day organised by UCIF for the Pressure Equipment field on October 11 was highly successful. The UCC Association, a member of ANIMA formed by boiler and, in general, pressure equipment manufacturers, had asked to study processes and materials for the treatment of its products’ surfaces. Industrial boilers, heat exchangers, cooling towers, interconnecting piping, and pipes in general require the application of highly anti-corrosive coatings – depending on their type of environment (marine, desert, offshore/onshore…), paint (epoxy, acrylic, phenolic, inorganic zinc…), coating tests (thicknesses, tear tests, batch controls…) and applicable regulations – as well as other protective systems (zinc plating, metallisation…). This inter-association event enabled the development of integrated knowledge and an exchange of experiences among apparently different sectors that, however, cannot operate separately. UCIF requested the prestigious support of Poliefun-Politecnico di Milano to conceive and organise this training day with nine reports from major players of the finishing sector, market experts and university professors. They dealt with several issues such as corrosion protection, performance and chemical composition of coatings, shot blasting and mass finishing processes, surface coating in terms of systems as well as application technology, and surface preparation and treatment. The focus was on the products of interest for the UCC member companies. The casual lunch break offered a further chance of discussion among the participants and the speakers, enabling to delve into many aspects of such a complex matter. UCIF is particularly proud of this constructive training day, which enabled several players of the finishing world and numerous users of these technologies to meet – an impossible result to achieve without the support of a category association.
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