Once again, Giardina Finishing and Mauri Macchine show the best of their technology at the 25th edition of Xylexpo, from 24 to 28 May at Fiera Milano-Rho.
The stand in hall 03 displays most of the group’s technological portfolio over a 400-square-meter surface.
Three solutions for panel coating are shown, all flagship products by Giardina: in the forefront, the “Dualtech 601” spraying machine, a high-end solution offering high productivity; few steps away, a fully working line to show the brand’s expertise in high-gloss roller coating, consisting of a laser roller coater “G02/05 Glossy” with vacuum system, distension section, and the vacuum UV oven “Gst 1401/2 Glossy”. Giardina is also exhibiting a UV oven with LED lamps, a solution that responds to increasing energy-saving demands by reducing power consumption for the drying process, while extending lamp life.
To coat disassembled profiles and windows, Giardina offers the staining machine “Mini flow-line” and the spraying machine “GS4 Syntech” with paint recycling belt featuring the proven recycling and cleaning system “Wet on Wet”, introduced almost twenty years ago on the entire “Dualtech” range; these two machines are particularly suitable to coat disassembled windows, an increasingly requested process, most of all for staining and basecoat application. For door coating, at Xylexpo Mauri Macchine is presenting the latest generation of “RBP” robot, a solution designed for just-in-time operations, offering high efficiency and flexibility, equipped with a brand new fully-automated loading and unloading system.
Mauri Macchine is extending its profile coating and finishing portfolio with a new concept of spraying machine, specifically designed to respond to new developments on several markets looking for affordable investments combined with a high quality of equipment and, most of all, coatings. “Xylexpo comes right on time for us”, said Giampiero Mauri, president of Giardina Finishing and Mauri Macchine, during the press conference in Milan. “We have been working together for five years and 2015 was an important year with significant growth rates. Giardina alone exceeded 11 million euro revenues, even beyond our own expectations. The early months of this year are equally encouraging, we are proud and satisfied with our commitment. Now, as I said, it’s time for us to prepare to grow further, and I am confident that Xylexpo will help, allowing us to show what we have become, what we can do together”. There is no doubt that this is a very positive season for Mauri Macchine and Giardina Finishing: constant commitment in many global markets is giving major results, new plants that become valuable reference to show the potential of these two Italian companies to big groups and small-medium enterprises.
A cooperation agreement signed with the subsidiary of a big group in the Arab and Gulf countries is bringing unexpected results in that region, and such results are bound to improve as they are supported by leaner and faster operations enabled by collaboration with a local partner. As recently stated by Giampiero Mauri, “2016 will be a turning point: we have several major projects in the pipeline around the world and we can anticipate the next twelve months will be an intensive and challenging period, but certainly offering great results. To achieve them, we will keep looking for strong partners in different markets, to develop networking of knowledge and expertise, and to share knowledge in order to preserve the highest quality standards”. Meanwhile, the big plant built in Kuwait for Hassan Habul Group, one of the biggest construction companies in the Persian Gulf, is up and running: five door coating lines that are probably the biggest finishing plant in the Middle East, with a capacity of one thousand doors per working shift. In 2015, a fully-automated coating plant was commissioned at Lamigloss in Ankara, Turkey, a Gentas Group company, the same group that acquired the Italian company Liri Laminati in 2014. In the laminate business – especially CPL (Continuous Pressed Laminate) and HPL (High Pressure Laminate) – the group boasts strong leadership. For Lamigloss, Giardina Finishing developed a direct UV gloss coating line for laminated mdf panels, a highly-automated solution that offers quality and reliability, thus turning the Turkish company into one of the most significant producers of this type of panels on a global scale. Another major order came from Springs Window Fashions, a leader market in America in the production of shutters and curtains for residential customers, offering a huge catalog of wood and Pvc products. Giardina Finishing and MauriMacchine were selected to supply a coating plant for disassembled Pvc shutters; this high-efficiency plant leverages the most advanced and reliable technology that the two brands have developed during their history.
A peculiarity of this spray coating plant is that the cycle starts with an innovative profile washing and drying section that ensures a perfect adhesion of the coating film onto the Pvc substrate; the plant is designed to execute the complete coating on all four faces in one pass, as well as all the necessary operations to deliver a ready-to-assemble profile at the end of the coating line. Another example of Giardina Group’s design and construction skills come from the UK, where a new production line has been recently installed at Ultima Kitchen. Founded thirty years ago by Alf and Clare Ellis, Ultima Kitchen is one of the top brands at the high end of the UK kitchen furniture market, offering excellent visual and quality standards achieved by combining manual skills with the best technology currently available on the global market, with extensive investments that few European companies can boast.
Giardina Finishing and Mauri Macchine have contributed to this challenging project with four robot-assisted spray coating plants designed for maximum flexibility: very effective “batch one” solutions integrating leading-edge units for paint mixing and color changing.
The targets of maximum flexibility, high quality, full repeatability and high reliability have been achieved…
The latest installation in England is a line delivered to Hammonds Furniture: founded in 1926 by Thomas Stanley Hammonds, the company has been producing bedroom and kitchen furniture for ninety years, offering high-end measure-made solutions. Also for this customer, Giardina Finishing has helped streamline and enhance the finishing of the entire portfolio, providing a spray-coating line that companies the compact size and versatility of the spraying machine Dualtech 501 with the efficiency and productivity of a flexible drying system, suitable both for water-borne products and for solvent-based UV and conventional products.
Another prestigious customer recently acquired is Lubidom Furniture, founded in 1995 in Volgodonskn, Rostov, southern Russian Federation. Lubidom pursues excellence, an imperative that has driven the company to choose Giardina Finishing to secure superior results for the furniture finishing; the goal has been achieved with an automated spraying line and an innovative roller coating line for glossy surfaces.
