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With 6.5 million tonnes of finished product and having been active in the steel processing sector for over sixty years, Marcegaglia is the leading Italian industrial Group in the national and international steel market.
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NIR Coatings with a 5-Second Curing Cycle Specially Formulated for Marcegaglia’s Coil Coating Line Monica Fumagalli ipcm®
Marcegaglia’s production hub in Ravenna, the largest plant of this Italian steel giant, is equipped with four hot galvanising lines of which one is a combined galvanising-coating system, a continuous-flow pre-painting line, and an intermittent-flow line with digital printing technology. The research and development of solutions to reduce the environmental impact of its steel processing and coating processes as well as energy consumption is the order of the day here. In this article, engineer Antonio Bonoli, the head of Marcegaglia Ravenna’s coil coating plants and the President of ECCA Italy, explains how the company’s close collaboration has enabled chemical supplier Condoroil Chemical to also become a major player in the supply of paint products, including NIR coatings capable of curing in about 5 seconds.
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N. 83 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023 - international PAINT&COATING magazine