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Mexall Upgrades Its Aluminium Profile Coating Plant with a Chrome-Free Pre-Treatment and Atomisation Cycle that Improves Performance and Reduces Water Consumption Gabriele Lazzari ipcm®
Mexall Progress is a leading designer of thermal break aluminium, aluminium-wood and woodaluminium window frames with maximum performance, comfort, and safety, characterised by a focus on its personnel and the natural resources of its local community. It has 5 coating plants for aluminium profiles and has recently updated its pre-treatment line thanks to the atomisation of the chrome-free passivating agent SurTec 643 through the RainTec technology installed by SurTec Italia, improving the cycle and reducing water consumption by 40%.
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n industrial group with more than thirty years’ experience enriched by a drive for innovation and constant research in the technological field, with
creativity as its most distinguishing feature, always attentive to the world around it and ready to take on new challenges.” This was the description of Mexall Progress S.r.l. offered to ipcm® on the occasion of its first report on this company in 2016. Nine years on, it has now forty years’ experience, but its other features have © ipcm
Coated aluminium profiles.
remained the same – actually, they have been enhanced: the range of profiles has been expanded, the available colours have increased, and the search for innovative environmentally friendly technologies has taken centre stage.
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