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Steelpaint: The Industrialisation of a Nanotechnology Pre-Treatment Process for Large-Sized Workpieces Treated in a Static Coating Plant Ilaria Paolomelo ipcm®
F
or almost twenty years now, we have
technical characteristics and advantages in
with an equipment that constantly
been reading articles and technical
terms of surface performance and above
provides the bars with fresh product, thus
reports about the application of
all corrosion resistance. We also know their
minimising consumption and maximising
nanotechnology-based surface conversion
best application methods: they are typically
the treatment quality and uniformity levels.
products for the pre-treatment of ferrous
sprayed, but they can also be applied by
However, we always read about applications
metal prior to coating. We know all their
immersion or, even better, by nebulisation
in continuous-flow plants and automatic
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