SPECIAL ISSUE ON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
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The finishes and colours of Collezione Nove, including the special Baia Blu tint of the 1/9.1 Iconic pergola, were developed in collaboration with Pulverit (Milan).
Cooperation and flexibility
the volume of profiles to be coated, which would have required
The choice of the pre-treatment and coating equipment was the
excessively slow and costly logistics.
result of the continuous cooperation among AMA, Pulverit, Gema, and
Therefore, the company also invested in expanding its workforce and
Euroimpianti. “We had no direct experience in finishing aluminium
improving its knowledge in this field. “We trained our staff with the
profiles, so we relied on the partners we had chosen for this project.
help of Euroimpianti and we now have a team entirely dedicated to the
Initially we were afraid of the potential difficulties we could encounter,
pre-treatment and coating of products. Moreover, the Komby plant
but they were all very helpful and flexible: they listened to our needs,
features a simple and user-friendly technology, which has enabled us to
provided us with the most suitable solutions to our requirements,
increase both production volumes and coating quality while achieving
and even supported us with advice on how to improve the efficiency
the aesthetic properties specified by our designers. We had considered
of production processes. For example, they suggested optimising the
two other suppliers, but Euroimpianti was the company that could
arrangement of parts on the load bars and decreasing the degree of
guarantee the fastest and most accurate installation. We are currently
inclination in order to achieve even higher coating quality,” says Fabbi.
working in two shifts and process up to 64 load bars per day, but we
Previously, as mentioned, AMA relied on a third-party coating service,
are getting ready to work in three shifts in order to fully utilise the
but the implementation of the company’s growth strategy also increased
plant,” Fabbi says with satisfaction.
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N. 75 - MAY/JUNE 2022 - international PAINT&COATING magazine
