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Green Chemistry and Customer Service: The Birth of SurTec Italia Gabriele Lazzari ipcm®, from an interview with Patrizia Angeli and Maurizio Ferrari SurTec Italia, Soliera (Modena) – Italy
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Maurizio Ferrari, General Manager – Domestic Sales & Production of SurTec Italia.
the coating pre-treatment sector.
and functional and decorative anodising and
“SurTec grasped our potential in the
galvanising. Maintaining production at the
aluminium sector,” says Maurizio Ferrari, the
Soliera (Modena) plant will also enable the
General Manager of SurTec Italia and former
company to combine the typical flexibility
Technical & Sales Manager of Italtecno. “This is
of small and medium-sized enterprises
why it decided to acquire Italtecno’s chemical
with the advantages of belonging to a large
division.” The acquisition was finalised in April
multinational company. In particular, SurTec
2021, with Italtecno continuing to operate
Italia was established with the aim of providing
completely independently with its plant
high-tech, high-performance products and
engineering division.
assisting customers in their use.
“SurTec Italia’s Modena site will be the Group’s
The foundation of SurTec Italia
global competence centre for research into anodising products. This is an important
SurTec International is a company with around
milestone for Italy and a recognition of the
400 employees and branches in 22 countries,
work done by Italtecno over the past few
part of the Freudenberg Group, which is active
years. Now, with the arrival of SurTec, we will
in 10 different business divisions with over
have more resources for research expenditure
50,000 employees worldwide. The strength
and this will certainly bring interesting results
of the Freudenberg Group lies in the many
for this industry,” notes Ferrari.
different companies it controls, enabling
SurTec Italia Sales Manager Patrizia Angeli
it to differentiate its services. The creation
adds: “We decided to partner with Italtecno
of SurTec Italia, therefore, will now allow it
several years ago to enter the Italian
to expand into a new geographical market
aluminium market and start to make our
with its entire product range: from industrial
brand known. Our new anodising products
cleaning to pre-treatment and galvanising.
will be developed in the SurTec Italia research
SurTec decided to create an Italian subsidiary
centre, while the brands that belonged to
after more than ten years of collaboration
Italtecno (such as Hardwall for cold fixing and
with Italtecno, which has been successfully
Sallox for electrocolouring) will retain their
erman multinational company
marketing its products for the aluminium
trade names under the new management of
SurTec International has finalised the
sector. These include, for instance, the SurTec
SurTec.”
purchase of the chemical branch of
650 passivating agent, a product based on
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Patrizia Angeli, Sales Manager of SurTec Italia.
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cleaning, metal pre-treatment prior to coating,
Italian firm Italtecno, thus strengthening its
zirconium and trivalent chromium, mainly
expertise in the aluminium sector and creating
used as a substitute for hexavalent chromium
Green approach and high quality: the company’s top products
SurTec Italia. With this, it has achieved the
in the passivation of aluminium and its alloys
Initially, SurTec Italia will focus on consolidating
goal of building a solid base within the Italian
in various application fields, such as anodising
Italtecno’s existing market, maintaining its
borders for the commercial and technical
and the aerospace industry. Precisely the
current service level and customer relations.
development of all its products – which are
collaboration with Italtecno made it possible to
Its medium to long-term objectives are
divided into four fields of application: industrial
expand the use of this passivating product to
the expansion of the pre-treatment and
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