With a wider use of plastic substrates, the need to enhance the look and feel of the surface of a component depends on the painting quality.

Quality can be achieved in many ways, the coatings you use, the production standards you implement, but also the choice of equipment that goes to make up your line.

Consistency and repeatability achieved by controlling technical parameters are factors that cannot be ignored. So what advice can we give you based on our experience in this industry?

Coating external doors can be done in many ways. The best way to increase output, improve the coating quality and reduce production costs is possible with just one machine.

iGiotto, with its new 3-gun wrist saves on lacquer consumption and ensures premium quality and consistency. Colour changes can be performed without even stopping the equipment, eliminating downtime. And as new pieces enter the overhead line, the software controlling the process lets iGiotto switch from one piece to the next and one colour to the next without interrupting production. This combination of benefits - ability to perform just-in-time production, full control over surface finishing quality, no downtime - merges into one major factor: superior productivity.

Today iGiotto, with its process control software, helps customers achieve production targets that were unheard of with manual spraying techniques, both in terms of quality, productivity and cost-efficiency. Spraying times are reduced by approx. 40% and there is no need for crossover trajectories. The solution is also highly flexible and vertical lines allow for coating on both sides without unloading pieces. In the future, external doors could be just one of the many applications envisaged for iGiotto.

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It is difficult to explain every consideration made when defining the values as we perceive them and how our customers perceive them, but this is a task every company should face to be clear about what they represent on their market. Our vision statement is short and concise, but it points exactly to where we aim in each activity: design, technology, user-friendliness, flexibility and sustainability.

The most trusted surface finishing partner, in everything you see.

If you are interested in understanding the reasons for our choice of words, this is the page to visit. But on a more tangible level, we can explain why most customers see us as a true ally, especially when there is a challenge to face.

Expertise, because we listen to you

With over 300 machine types and 60 years’ experience in the market, our team of finishing experts cover territories all around the world and have seen thousands of finishing lines, appreciating the issues faced by each customer, according to substrate, product geometries, lacquer types and an infinite number of variable criteria; too many to mention here. By listening to the people directly in contact with the product and the production line, we understand each aspect and if necessary run tests together with a customer at one of our huge finishing laboratories. Lacquers, curing ovens, your product, our technologies – everything can be tested until we find the ideal solution. Your priorities are respected in our quest for the best solution.

This is what stands at the heart of a partnership. Based on mutual trust, we can achieve your expectations and maybe go a step further.

Tailored solutions based on consolidated technologies

Each solution we provide derives from a tried and tested technology. We first use the LAB to innovate and experiment. Then you use the LAB to test our technologies on your products.

This leads inevitably to a tailored solution built to answer your needs in every detail. Based on a consolidated technology, it is highly reliable and able to satisfy a demand for cost-efficiency, sustainability, productivity, flexibility and ultimately the quality you want for your final product.

In many ways, our vision is part of your vision, because if we can improve your business prospects through our solutions, we are both working towards the same goal.

Curious to discover our Finishing LAB and run e few tests for your products? Contact us today.

How do excimer ovens work?

Excimer technology adopts a short-wave UV polymerisation process performed in an oxygen-free atmosphere. This is an effective way of obtaining high-performance, matt surfaces whose scratch and abrasion resistance is complemented by a soft-touch effect, enhancing the look and feel of the panel, be it wood or another substrate suitable for excimer drying. The physical effect on the lacquer, once it is fully cured, is such that it amounts to an extremely low-gloss finish, anywhere between 5 and 20 gloss, with an excellent anti-fingerprint effect.

Taking excimer matting technology beyond its customary limits

So far, this technology has been used on flat panels because removing oxygen from 3D objects, especially the edges of a raised panel, has never been accomplished satisfactorily. Exydry-Z is the next step which breaks down the barriers that were present until now. Boasting three patent pending technologies, this innovative system developed by Cefla Finishing effectively washes away all the oxygen from the X, Y and Z axes of a raised panel, enabling excimer matting on all surfaces. Furthermore, Exydry-Z achieves an impressive below-5 gloss finish and cuts back on nitrogen consumption.

So if you were looking for a way to obtain a deep matt, super resistant, soft-touch finish for your raised panels, Exydry-Z is the oven for you.

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How flexible can we get?

Built to process all types of material (only flat surfaces) - wood and its derivatives, as well as glass, cork, metal, fibre cement and plastic - Smartcoater PRO gives customers the chance to gain greater control over their process, over the lacquer applied and over productivity in general. Handling all sorts of products, they require flexibility and better performance: one machine for all product types. Different shapes, different thicknesses, uncalibrated panels all require flexibility. But variations in lacquer also influence the operating parameters and based on temperature, viscosity and other variables, machine settings need to be adjusted. Instead of doing this manually, we have designed a platform which automates parameter regulations, saving time and improving performance.

How can we lower production costs?

Customers also want to save on lacquer, solvents, cleaning operations, and they are looking for a solution any operator will feel at ease monitoring all these parameters. We have built Smartcoater PRO so that operators can see inside the machine to check key parts are working correctly. Cleaning operations are partly automated and use of a roller cleaning device reduces solvent consumption and costs substantially. Automation also plays a role in reducing production costs by monitoring coating parameters (weight of lacquer, temperature, etc.) and thereby adjusting dose roller pressure automatically. Recalling a specific recipe will adjust parameters accordingly without added manual intervention.

What else is new compared to previous roller coaters?

An improved lifting system based of 4 screw jacks ensures greater stability and sturdiness. Furthermore a floating system with optional pneumatic control responds perfectly to surface variations on flat panels transiting through the machine. Belt adjustments are now automatic, with an optional belt-centring system. Belt change is quicker than on the previous version. Smartcoater PRO also features dose roller positioning and an independent electric application device.

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