INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
Alit’s Fastrip AP System for Sustainable Paint Stripping of Aluminium Profiles Claudio Burato Alit Technologies, San Bonifacio (VR) – Italy
info@alit-tech.com
The paint stripping of defective products is an essential step of a manufacturing process, and being able to carry out it in complete autonomy means bringing important benefits to the production chain. The new Fastrip AP system developed by Alit (San Bonifacio, Verona, Italy) now enables aluminium coating contractors to strip profiles themselves: in about three hours, defective profiles can be stripped, rinsed, and delivered ready to be reprocessed again.
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luminium is considered the material of the future as it is light,
integrated with other Alit paint stripping technologies. This makes AP
versatile, sustainable, and fully recyclable, but it needs to be
a paint stripping system suitable for all aluminium manufacturers,
returned to its raw state in order to obtain an optimal product
extruders, converters, or coaters that need to restore badly painted
to reprocess. Alit Technologies is a company headquartered in the
profiles efficiently, cost-effectively, quickly, and without burdensome
province of Verona (Italy), specialising in products and machines
logistics.
for the chemical paint stripping of aluminium, zinc, and alloys. It
The genesis of the new plant
off-line plant that enables small batches of aluminium profiles to be
Fastrip AP’s development been a natural progression of the R&D
stripped quickly. This technological solution will especially enable
activity of Alit, which already has an extensive range of plant and
coating contractors to recover defective profiles without any loss
chemical stripping solutions for quickly removing powder coatings
of productivity. Like in-line chemical paint stripping plants devoted
(including Qualicoat 1 and 2) from hooks, frames, and metal structures
to hooks and using high-performance, low-environmental impact
in different sizes. In some markets, especially abroad, there is a lack of
formulations, the new AP system can be integrated into already
paint stripping contractors capable of restoring defective profiles in a
existing processing lines or installed as a stand-alone system, possibly
timely manner; this has an impact on companies’ process times and
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has recently developed a new system called Fastrip AP, a compact
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