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The façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona with profiles coated by LADAL.
FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Operative Word: QUALITY. A Long-Standing Partnership with a Powder Coating Manufacturer Enables LADAL to Finish Its High-End Aluminium Profiles for the Architectural Sector Ilaria Paolomelo ipcm®
In architecture, colours and finishes play as important a role as the coating quality degree. Precisely the culture of quality has led LADAL, a company specialising in the coating of aluminium profiles and sheets and considered one of the pioneers of the Spanish aluminium powder coating market, to collaborate with AkzoNobel for almost forty years.
F
or several decades, powder coatings have been used
characteristics but also excellent aesthetics, only applied liquid
exclusively in industrial sectors where high functionality,
paints.
effective weather resistance, and good corrosion protection
It was not until the second half of the 1970s that the first powder
were required. Little attention was paid to aesthetics. Sectors such
coatings combining functionality and aesthetics, also thanks to an
as architecture and design, which not only required functional
ever-increasing range of colours and finishes, and guaranteeing
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