Waterborne UV curing coating for a 5 stars hotel: sustainability and high performances

Overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, the five-star David Citadel Hotel of Alrov Group, designed in 1998 by Moshe Safdie, the Israeli architect naturalized Canadian winner of the AIA Gold Medal award, is the south side of the Mamilla Quarter, in front of the historic Valley Hinome, according to a

horseshoe plan. The outer covering is made of a rough local limestone, while the interior is covered with wood walls and wood false ceilings.

All common areas, 385 guestrooms and suites have been redesigned and spread over 8 floors of the

building, according to a design by the Italian Lissoni Associati who, by keeping the use of traditional

materials and colours complemented by other alternative ones treated in an original way, designed

the environment as a maze enhanced by the study of natural and artificial light, rich in vegetation.

A rich palette of colours, lights, textured fabrics, parts made of brass treated with different finishes joined with glasses printed on the back, with a central idea connected to the use of wood, oak for the

floor, the heat-treated eucalyptus for the walls and the furniture in the common areas and suites,

characterize and personalize all the areas, both public and the private ones of the rooms.

«The mood of each room is characterised by the prevalence of some "colours" - tells us Alessandro Simonato, manager of the office design of the Tino Sana company located in Almenno S. Bartolomeo (in the province Bergamo) who has been commissioned to manufacture all the furniture - especially the eucalyptus heat-treated dark wood, iron or burnished brass, and the "Mondrian effect" obtained with surfaces made of brass treated  in different ways, mirrors, glasses printed on the back».

Belonging to an international luxury hotel chain with high quality and surface resistance requirements

suggested Tino Sana design office to choose carefully materials and finishes.

«In the rooms – goes on Simonato – we chose, instead of heat-treated eucalyptus wood, some veneered panels with pre-dyed wood coated with waterborne UV curing paints, for "coarse", visual effect so as to enhance the matt wood».

Thanks to the cooperation of Elia Maestroni, Key Account Manager of IVM Chemicals company and the technical support of the R&D laboratory, it has been developed a coating cycle that allows to reach a surface resistance comparable to other non-wood finishes, which is an essential feature for hotel furnishing of a hotel, of course, that is subjected to large mechanical stresses and to the use of detergents for cleaning.

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Long lasting and high quality level powder coatings for a leader company in the “contract” furniture industry

«Each product must have a reason to exist.

This in the truth that emerges from the

selection of exemplary products which

represent best the success that Segis has realized».

This expression, quoted in Segis website, an Italian

company located in Poggibonsi in the province of Siena, a company leader in design and manufacturing

of innovative and high quality level seating for contract industry, describes exactly the company’s philosophy: to manufacture what can be useful to the market, paying attention to the

strictest International quality standard, looking for

the best materials, finishes and focusing the whole

productive process on a manufacturing in accordance

with the environmental sustainability principles.

Everything reflects Franco Dominici’s thoughts, creator

and founder of the company in 1983 and today in the

company together with his son Francesco.

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Sedie del settore "contract" verniciate a polveri di alta qualità

«Ogni prodotto deve avere una ragione per esistere, questo è il senso più vero che traspare dai prodotti icona che rappresentano il successo di Segis».

Questa frase, riportata nel sito di Segis, azienda italiana con sede a Poggibonsi in provincia di Siena, leader nella progettazione e produzione di sedute innovative e di alta qualità, tavoli e complementi per il contract, che produce in Italia, Vietnam e Stati Uniti ed esporta in tutto il mondo, descrive perfettamente la filosofia aziendale: produrre ciò che può essere utile al mercato, con la massima attenzione all’applicazione più rigorosa degli standard qualitativi internazionali, ricercando i migliori materiali, finiture, orientando il processo produttivo con attenzione all’ergonomia e con particolare impegno a produrre secondo criteri di sostenibilità ambientale.

É all’interno di queste condizioni che ha avuto inizio la collaborazione con Axalta Coating Systems,
divisione Powder Coatings, azienda che fornisce prodotti vernicianti in polvere, presente globalmente
nel mondo, con una filosofia di innovazione attenta alla qualità e alla sostenibilità. Oltre ad avere un’ampia gamma di prodotti frutto di diverse tecnologie produttive che consentono un’ampia varietà
di applicazioni, il team Axalta si dedica ad aiutare i clienti a trovare la soluzione adatta per
le esigenze produttive, allo scopo di migliorare la produttività e ridurre i costi complessivi. Insieme ai tecnici di Axalta si sta sperimentando un nuovissimo prodotto trasparente, un clear coat Soft Touch Alesta che conferisce alla finitura una particolare morbidezza e texture su diversi tipi di finiture
standardizzate.