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.

Artistic tradition and technology

Harps: artisanal historical masterpieces, waterborne coated by a cutting-edge plant

It is true that an instrument intended for high-level

professional performances, under the judgment of

an expert public, it must guarantee first of all that

the instrument has been built in order to avoid any

inappropriate sounds, but all the productive processes

we visited all even the less important, are so refined, to

understand what means a “Salvi harp”.

We ask Gabriele Dutto, manager of the company

together with we visited the company, if the coating

process of the instrument has only an aesthetic

function; he answered that: «the soundboard,

due to strings’tension- it can reach a carrying capacity

of 1200 kg-tends to deform, even if the parts needed to

built are stored in a well-ventilated and heated room

for about 4 months. For this reason coating in

addition to meet high aesthetic requirements, must be

elastic so that it absorbs the dimensional changes of

the instrument and will not “break” the film».

In brief: all the instrument components are prepared

in the joinery then they area pre-assembled creating

a “raw harp” (as we call it), whose validity is carefully

checked in order to guarantee the right functioning

(the assembly of the various components is so perfect,

that at the end it looks like a unique item).

All the components are then disassembled and coated,

to be next assembled again to built the “definite harp”, at

least in terms of structure, not yet tested in its primary

function, the sound production: the specialists of the

company (harp tuners and harpists), must do it later.

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Innovation and new technologies in Euromask’s service: samples in 3 days!

As known, since 20 years Euromask is a leader in production

and trade of professional masking systems for every surface treatments: from liquid to powder coatings, from galvanic to sandblasting processes, masking tapes, silicone and rubber plugs, caps protections and hanging hooks.

In fact, Euromask is always in the forefront developing new technologies and productive/management processes in order to provide the best service to its customers, trying to improve and evolve itself as market require, right as a leader does.

That’s why with pride, Euromask is announcing the power to provide hanging hooks and mold samples for every appliance within record time!

Thanks to the new hook-machine for steel wires from 1,5 to 5 mm, Euromask will be able to dispatch huge quantity of hooks within 6 working days. In this way Euromask triples its daily output and is able to supply the growing demand of hooks, maintaining its “first-in, first-out” method.

But… that’s far from enough!

As a matter of fact, thanks to a new evolutionary step, Euromask developed a new technology in order to create and produce custom silicone samples suitable for many applications, high temperature and chemical bath processes included.

What to do? Simply provide a technical drawing or a physical sample of the part that needs to be masked. Than, Euromask’s experts will create a 3D drawing needful to produce a customer’s preliminary test silicone sample within record times: from 3 to 5 working day that depends on the complexity of the final object. This is a real improve, compared to the average timing of the market!

Moreover, the most important aspect is that once the sample is accepted by the customer, it will be perfectly the same in dimensions and features to the future product range.

In summary, Euromask shows once more its market leadership and won’t stops to challenge itself, in order to improve its own quality and its services for all customers.