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Flexible, Customised Production: Pilla Meets the Challenges of the Funerary Art Industry with a New Liquid Coating Plant Ilaria Paolomelo, ipcm®
Pilla Srl is a long-established Italian company active in the design, production, decoration, and coating of high-end cemetery items and funerary products since 1935. It recently turned to Radial Group for the installation of a new liquid coating system to increase the flexibility of its manufacturing department and meet the demand for highly customised products.
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lexibility and quality are the two cornerstones that best describe
require increasingly customised products.
the production approach of Pilla Srl, a leading European company
On the other hand, investing in quality means devoting valuable
in the funerary art sector. On the one hand, a flexible production
resources, time, and efforts to maintaining excellent quality standards in all areas of production. To this end, since 1935, the year of its
and industry trends. The funerary art market is anything but static, and
foundation, Pilla has been constantly investing in state-of-the-art
continually studying and developing new colours and finishes is essential
processes and technologies to manufacture a wide range of funerary
to anticipate trends and meet the expectations of customers, who
and cemetery items, including planters, lamps, vases, letters, plaques,
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flow means it can quickly adapt its processes to changes in demand
Pilla has been producing various products for the funerary and cemetery art market since 1935, including planters, plaques, and frames.
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