Surface Enhancement Technology Leader

In the early 1960s, having built up experience in the field of sheet metal working and ventilation/heating, Cefla began to build its first spray booths and linear ovens for drying paints on panels.

50 years have now passed, and Cefla Finishing and all its associate enterprises have grown through constant technological innovation in processes and products, enabling them now to offer the market's widest range of integrated solutions.

The partnership with Sorbini began in the early 1980s, and the company still forms part of Cefla Finishing today.

Sorbini was the first company in Italy to produce the Curtain Coater, now able to apply any type of paint to unfinished materials up to 2500 mm wide.

​In a process of continual growth, it has developed and produced a full range of technologies for the manufacture of Coating Machines, Inert Coating Technology, Printing Machines, Brushing machines and complete edge painting systems.

It was in the early 1980s that Cefla designed and built the first rotary carousel spray machine, the SGC. Launched in 1983, it had a carousel arrangement of spray guns and operated in continuous motion on a compressed elliptical path.

This was absolutely the first spray machine of its type to be built in Italy, and sales figures confirmed the brilliance of Cefla's ideas, establishing it as an industry pioneer.

In response to the increasing use of water-based paints, mainly promoted by northern European countries in the 1980s, Cefla invested in the development of a new-generation oven.

​Cefla's research came up with the Aquadry oven, which uses high-velocity air – necessary to evaporate water, a heavy solvent - combined with infra-red radiation.

Even today, compared to other systems Aquadry is a flexible, economical oven, safe for operators and controlled by means of a set of user-friendly parameters.

After two years of research and design, 1990 May saw the unveiling of the Ecosprayer ROC, a spray machine with patented conveyor belt system capable of finally resolving the increasingly crucial problem of paint recovery and reuse.

The invention of the spray machine with recovery belt, instead of the conventional narrow steel belts or chains previously used, was a game-changer for our customers and us.

Its success was immediate, because it delivered cost savings from recovery combined with high product quality, since the underside of the panel was free from damaging overspray and the paint "rebound" effect provided excellent edge coverage.

The concept developed with the Ecosprayer ROC enabled us to expand the range of spray machines available on the market and start working with 5-axis robots, through to the development of today's iBotic.

The partnership with Falcioni, now a major centre of expertise in window finishing, began in the 1990s.

The key product is the iGiotto robot, which combines outstanding flexibility with very powerful software, developed entirely in-house.

Today Falcioni has been completely merged into Cefla, where, like all the group's specialised units, it benefits from the sound finances needed to invest in research and the development of leading-edge solutions.

In 2005 the Cefla product range was completed with the addition of the Delle Vedove group and its prestigious Düspohl, Delle Vedove Deutschland and Delle Vedove System brands.

This created the capability for working by centres of expertise specialising in different technologies, and made us a unique partner at the global level in terms of customer offering.

While Düspohl continues to be a separate brand with its own production site near Bielefeld in Germany, Delle Vedove has been completely merged with Cefla.

The years 2000 saw continual product innovations and major steps forward in the technologies developed for the industry by Cefla.

From high-speed automatic spray machines to moulding coating solutions and edge processing centres. And as the market was demanding greater flexibility and more potential for creativity, Cefla introduced digital printing systems, innovations in the spray machine assortment, and trimming and offcut collection devices, not to mention the Inert Coating Technology for panel preparation.

A corporate philosophy built on long-term relationships with customers, suppliers and employees has enabled us to introduce important product and process innovations over the course of our history.

The entry of JetSet into the Cefla group in 2016 was a major step forward, further expanding Cefla Finishing's know-how in digital printing, a sector with immense growth potential.

Specialised in both multi- and single-pass industrial digital printing, JetSet develops solutions for decoration on a variety of materials, using different ink types and technologies.

Today, in response to the latest market trends, a number of state-of-the-art technologies have been perfected, including myTexture for producing an embossing effect, marking the transition from visible to tactile decoration.