Professionals and companies meet color trends

"Color can contribute to the success and value of industrial products". This is the message that Mattia Bardelotto of Colori Millennium, a Lechler retailer of Cessalto (TV), delivered to the participants of the event "The Color Experience 2018". A learning experience and an occasion to build synergies between entrepreneurs and architects, designers and engineers, organised by the Venetian company in January thanks to the support of Lechler and the international project "Color Design", the concept that unites the development of chemistry and coatings with the evolution of the color language.

More than 150 participants hosted in the beautiful Polvaro estate in Annone Veneto, in the heart of one of the most important wine-making areas, participated to an exposition on color trends for architecture, furniture and design, with an introduction on the use of color in indoor spaces by Francesca Valan, industrial designer, expert and university professor on "Color Design".

 

Subsequently, a round table moderated by Mattia Bardelotto himself was organized, and the present entrepreneurs explained that the color project launched in 2017 thanks to Colori Millennium and Lechler resulted in successful projects. In particular Forme d'Acqua, a company that creates unique works with water, presented their industrial products which set up a project of industrialization of furniture elements that combine design, water, light and special materials ( stones, marbles, hand-made glass); Oikos Venezia ("Architetture d’ingresso"), a well-known company that produces designer armored doors; Rotaliana, which produces iconic lamps combining tradition and innovation, ancient roots and contemporary thought.

Competence and organization for an efficient and quality powder coating service

Competence and organization are two rewarding factors for 

third parties’ painters: we discussed about it with  

Marco Borgolotto, manager at Colorema, a company with two 

locations, the headquarters in Canzo (province of Como), 

and the “branch” in Calco (province of Lecco), within the 

client company of which is a service provider.

“Our company is an historic company of Como’s area: 

steadily growing, the relocation was a challenge that we

have taken thanks to the trust of our customer, who as the 

production site in Calco, which required a quality service 

tailored to the company's production times. The decision 

to install a new plant comes from the fact that we have 

seen increasing the number of trips from Calco to Canzo 

and vice versa, a problem that over time had become 

unmanageable and economically unsustainable. 

Thanks to the valuable advice of Pier Luigi Vertova, 

Ripol’s local agent, the one who provides us with powder 

coatings, we built the new production center and at the 

same time we have implemented the branch’s plant in Cantù 

in order to maintain our painted product’s quality”.

The "delocalized" expansion is very interesting: the client company, Satech Safety Technology, that operates in security arrangements for plants, decided to delegate all the finishing process to a subcontractor located in the same production area: flexibility, production time’s adaptation, constant control, logistics efficiency and competence are the reasons for this choice. Forms of close cooperation between customer and contractor as this one are not unusual: for example, it is quite common in overall automotive industry’s context (see VI 524/2011), less common in other sectors.