- Focus on chemicals = Metalstrip 2011
- Focus on plants= Fastrip AP
Author: adm1n_alit_1
ALIT Academy Magazine has come true!
November 15, 2021. ALIT Technologies is pleased to present the first issue of ALIT Academy Magazine.
The first issue of ALIT Academy Magazine is available. ALIT Academy Magazine is a new communication tool to allow you direct access to our latest innovations and know better the people who make the magic happen every day.
The idea of this magazine, linked to the ALIT Academy project, comes from the desire to actively engage with our partners, in order to keep them updated on everything that is happening within the company, from internal dynamics to the development of chemical products and new plants. Therefore, the aim is to transfer as much information and knowledge as possible to grow together and ensure a higher degree of preparation to tackle any market need.
The first issue opens with the “Letter to the readers” by the CEO of Alit Technologies, Loris Rossi, and continues with technical articles dedicated respectively to METALSTRIP 2011 and the FASTRIP AP paint stripping plant. Finally, the last pages will be dedicated to the most recent news and to the “The word from the team”, a section dedicated to our team, which aims at giving them a platform to speak out and, at the same time, allow you to learn the latest news from our team.
Each new issue will be released every four months. The first issue is available at the following link: https://www.alit-tech.com/alit-academy-magazine-en/alit-academy-magazine/
Enjoy the reading!
Fastrip AP on the June issue of Verniciatura Industriale
Fastrip AP, our system for the chemical paint stripping of aluminium profiles, has been featured in the June 2021 issue of Verniciatura Industriale.
Fastrip AP is the latest system developed by ALIT, a compact off-line plant that enables small batches of aluminium profiles to be stripped quickly.
This technological solution will enable to recover defective profiles without any loss of productivity. Like in-line chemical paint stripping plants devoted to hooks and high-performance, low-environmental impact chemical formulations, the new Fastrip AP system can be integrated into already existing processing lines or installed as a stand-alone system, possibly integrated with other ALIT paint stripping technologies.
Fastrip AP is a paint stripping system suitable for all aluminium manufacturers, extruders, converters, or custom coaters, who will thus be able to restore badly painted profiles efficiently, cost-effectively, quickly, and without burdensome logistics.
Read the full article, available in Italian and French, published on Verniciatura Industriale n. 638 (June 2021
ALIT Technologies presents the innovative Fastrip AP system for the paint stripping of aluminium profiles
June 10, 2021. The paint stripping of defective products is an essential step of a manufacturing process, and being able to carry it out in complete autonomy means bringing important benefits to the production chain. The new Fastrip AP system enables to strip aluminium profiles up to 8 metres long: in about three hours, defective profiles can be stripped, rinsed, and delivered ready to be reprocessed again.
ALIT Technologies, specialised in the chemical paint stripping of aluminium, zinc, and metallic alloys and headquartered in San Bonifacio (Verona, Italy), has developed Fastrip AP, a compact off-line plant that enables small batches of aluminium profiles to be stripped quickly. This technological solution will enable to recover defective profiles without any loss of productivity. Like in-line chemical paint stripping plants devoted to hooks and high-performance, low-environmental impact chemical formulations, the new Fastrip AP system can be integrated into already existing processing lines or installed as a stand-alone system, possibly integrated with other ALIT paint stripping technologies. Fastrip AP is a paint stripping system suitable for all aluminium manufacturers, extruders, converters, or custom coaters, who will thus be able to restore badly painted profiles efficiently, cost-effectively, quickly, and without burdensome logistics.
Technical features of Fastrip AP
The Fastrip AP paint stripping system can accommodate 30 to 70 aluminium profiles up to 8 metres long. In just 3 hours, the material is ready for reprocessing, significantly reducing the time required by the production chain. It is a compact system with two tanks (one for the stripping, one for the static or dynamic rinsing) – with a usable cross-sectional area of 50 cm x 50 cm – and a loading and unloading station. The operator can approach the plant with a wheeled basket containing the material to be stripped, similarly to what is done with immersion pre-treatment plants. The machine automatically hooks up the basket, lifts it, and starts the first cycle in the paint stripping tank, which contains ALIT’s environmentally friendly alkaline paint stripper Metastrip 1333/1. The machine’s handling system allows continuous “swinging” (i.e., a quiet vertical movement of the basket), which increases the performance level of the paint stripping bath. At the end of the cycle, the operator can assess the cleanliness degree and decide whether to continue with the paint stripping process. The system then automatically transfers the basket to the rinsing tank, where the swinging movement continues. Finally, the basket is transferred to the unloading station, which also includes a drip tray.
The paint stripping tank has a variable temperature (between 45° C and 60 °C) and it is equipped with a lid. Its heating system is electric and the heating elements are fixed to the outer wall to prevent contact between the heat source and the liquids, in order to guarantee maximum safety against any risk of fire. The tank is also set up for air suction at low hertz if the lid is closed, but able to increase frequency once it is opened; emissions must then be channelled into a fume abatement system. The tank is ready to connect to a suction system, which can be either already existing at the customer’s factory or supplied separately by ALIT.
ALIT Technologies is currently concluding the latest internal tests of Fastrip AP’s prototype system. After fine-tuning, the system will be made available to customers, who can see and evaluate it in-person at the San Bonifacio site.
ALIT’s Fastrip AP System for Sustainable Paint Stripping of Aluminium Profiles
With the new Fastrip AP, in about three hours, defective profiles can be stripped, rinsed, and delivered ready to be reprocessed again.
Aluminium is considered the material of the future as it is light, versatile, sustainable, and fully recyclable, but it needs to be returned to its raw state in order to obtain an optimal product to reprocess.
ALIT has recently developed a new system called Fastrip AP, a compact off-line plant that enables small batches of aluminium profiles to be stripped quickly. This technological solution will especially enable coating contractors to recover defective profiles without any loss of productivity.
Like in-line chemical paint stripping plants devoted to hooks and using high-performance, low-environmental impact formulations, the new AP system can be integrated into already existing processing lines or installed as a stand-alone system, possibly integrated with other ALIT paint stripping technologies. This makes AP a paint stripping system suitable for all aluminium manufacturers, extruders, converters, or coaters that need to restore badly painted
profiles efficiently, cost-effectively, quickly, and without burdensome logistics.
Read the full article published on ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine n. 69 (May/June 2021).
The article was also published in the May 2021 issue of ipcm® Ibérica and ipcm® LatinoAmérica, in Spanish and Portuguese.
Improving Efficiency, Productivity, and Environmental Friendliness with Chemical Paint Stripping
Find out the results that a company specialising in the extrusion and powder coating of aluminium profiles has achieved through its partnership with Alit.
The quality and efficiency of the paint stripping of hooks and hanging equipment are crucial to obtain good powder coating results, but they are often underestimated.
Coating users, both on their own behalf and on behalf of others, tend to consider this ancillary phase of organic coating treatments as a mere maintenance operation, which does not require careful planning or the use of particularly advanced technologies.
Reality, however, proves otherwise, especially in powder coating. Failure to strip hanging hooks and even sketchy stripping can greatly affect the quality of the applied coatings, because they prevent proper electrostatic charging of workpieces, with major consequences in terms of production waste and rework. Other aspects that tend to be overlooked in relation to paint stripping, especially with chemical products, are its healthiness and environmental impact: it is still common to observe the use of aggressive and dangerous chemical solutions in unsuitable plants.
Designing their paint stripping operations as an essential step in their coating processes, therefore, enables companies to improve efficiency, reduce their activities’ impact, and, above all, lower their costs.
Alumec Srl, a company specialising in the extrusion, machining, and finishing of aluminium profiles for architecture and industry, can testify to the effectiveness of this approach. After years spent stripping its profile-hanging hooks on a vertical system in a two-day process using an aggressive product, about three years ago it implemented a new chemical technology from the Metalstrip range, achieving excellent results in terms of both quality and process.
Metalstrip
Metalstrip is the range of innovative chemical products with high performance and low environmental impact. Metalstrip paint strippers are:
- free from chlorinated compounds;
- ecologically compatible;
- formulated to optimize plant performance;
- compatible for the treatment of ferrous material, aluminium or other light alloys.
Read the full article published within the Architecture & Design section of ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine n. 68 (March/April 2021):
Insourcing of the paint stripping process: the experience of Metra Color on the pages of Verniciatura Industriale
In December 2020, Metra Color installed the Fastrip T5 paint stripping tank at its Brescia headquarters. Read the full article.
Metra Color, a leading company in the aluminium sector, has installed the Fastrip T5 chemical paint stripping tank with a capacity of 800 litres at its plant in Rodengo Saiano (BS, Italy). The decision to internalize this process, often delegated to external companies, arises from the fact that the stripping of hooks and frames is of crucial importance as it affects both the coating process and the quality of the final product.
With the aim of reducing the costs and time required for stripping by external companies, Metra opted in December 2020 for the insourcing of this process.
FASTRIP T5
Fastrip T5 is the range of paint stripping tanks with a capacity of 800 litres, developed by ALIT Technologies, which combines sturdiness, flexibility and process efficiency and allows to efficiently remove paint from hooks, frames or pieces to be recovered, whether they are of ferrous metals or light alloys, without compromising their surfaces.
Fastrip T5 is built on the concept of “tank within a tank”: the sealed external tank also serves a safety basin for fluid containment. Furthermore, our systems – made in AISI-304 – are equipped with a separate self-supporting plug-and-play touchscreen control panel and fully programmable cycle parameters.
The Fastrip T5 system is available in three versions, which combine a chemical and mechanical action for optimal stripping:
- T5-US with ultrasound technology;
- T5-MIX with a mechanical mixer;
- T5-MT with a series of tanks in parallel with gantry-type handling.
The paint stripping process is optimized by the use of paint strippers from our Metalstrip Up&Down range.
Read the full article published in the February issue of Verniciatura Industriale and contact us for more information.
ALIT presents the partnership with SAT to the readers of Verniciatura Industriale
Read the article dedicated to the commercial agreement between ALIT and SAT published in the new issue of Verniciatura Industriale.
An article about the collaboration between ALIT and SAT (Surface Aluminium Technologies) Srl for the exclusive sale of ALIT Technologies’ Fastrip ISP machine for the in-line paint stripping of hooks for aluminium extrusions coating lines has been published in the January 2021 issue of the magazine Verniciatura Industriale.
The agreement comes as a result of years of projects between the two companies and has the aim to provide their customers with the most advanced technologies that make the painting process more efficient and economical.
Read the full article and contact us for further information.
The partnership between ALIT and SAT on the pages of ipcm®
ALIT Technologies and SAT sign a collaboration agreement for the sale of Fastrip ISP paint stripping technologies for aluminium extrusions vertical coating lines.
An article about the collaboration between ALIT and SAT (Surface Aluminium Technologies) Srl for the exclusive sale of ALIT Technologies’ Fastrip ISP machine for the in-line paint stripping of hooks for aluminium extrusions coating lines has been published in the January 2021 issue of the technical magazine ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine.
The agreement comes as a result of years of projects between the two companies and has the aim to provide their customers with the most advanced technologies that make the painting process more efficient and economical.
Read the full article on ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine, issue n. 67 (January/February 2021).
The article was also published in the February 2021 issue of ipcm® Ibérica and ipcm® LatinoAmérica, in Spanish and Portuguese.
The paint stripping products and technologies by ALIT on the pages of the Italian daily business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore
ALIT’s Fastrip machines and Metalstrip products are the protagonists of the pages of Il Sole 24 Ore, special on Aluminium and Non-ferrous Metals.
On Monday, January 18, 2021, the issue of Il Sole 24 Ore containing a special dedicated to aluminium and non-ferrous metals and to companies operating in the materials of the future was published.
For the occasion, ALIT Technologies presented its Fastrip paint stripping machines and Metalstrip paint stripping products.
In fact, the combination of high-performance chemical formulations with low environmental impact of the Metalstrip paint strippers and the high-tech paint stripping machines of the Fastrip line makes ALIT the ideal technological partner to tackle the challenges of paint stripping and surface treatment.
Contact us for further information: info@alit-tech.com
