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SPECIAL ISSUE ON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Euroimpianti Expands and Opens a New Office in Germany From an interview with Gianluca Baruffaldi, CEO of Euroimpianti and Kevin Eckert, Sales Director of Euroimpianti Deutschland
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ince when it was founded in 1976,
where coating of aluminium and iron metallic
the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, which
Euroimpianti Srl has achieved a
pieces is required.
brought the global industry to a standstill
series of successes that have made
First established in Villafranca and then
with major repercussions on the economies
it one of the world’s leading coating plant
moved to Valeggio Sul Mincio (in the province
of almost every country, Euroimpianti has
manufacturers. In its 45-year history, an
of Verona and a stone’s throw from Lake
not stopped and it has developed another
anniversary falling precisely this year,
Garda, in Italy), where its recently expanded
important project completed in 2021: the
Euroimpianti has made its modular,
headquarters is still located1, Euroimpianti
opening of its third European office after
expandable coating plant concept its strong
has grown over the last ten years, opening
the Italian and Spanish ones, this time in
point. Its product range includes automatic,
operational and sales offices in all major
Germany.
manual, and semi-automatic equipment for
western markets: in Brazil in 2012, in Spain
We met for a double interview Gianluca
the application of both liquid and powder
in 2016, and in the United States in 2018.
Baruffaldi, the CEO of Euroimpianti Srl, and
coatings even on large-sized workpieces, as
Although 2020 will be remembered as
Kevin Eckert, the sales director of the newly
well as both horizontal and vertical systems for painting aluminium profiles with its patented, newly developed booths. This enables it to serve virtually all industries
created Euroimpianti Deutschland, to ask “Thirty years of Euro90: the creation, evolution, and future of the modular coating system concept”, ipcm® Vol. XI, no. 61 January-February 2020, pp. 60-64
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about the implementation of this project and its development horizons. “The project started last year in August,” says
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The headquarters of Euroimpianti Deutschland in Donaueschingen.
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