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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

Fastrip T5: The versatile and sturdy solution for chemical paint stripping

Our range of paint stripping tanks allows to effectively remove paint from both ferrous metals and light alloys without compromising their surfaces.

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 article published in the Verniciatura Industriale’s November/December issue and contact us for more information.

Fastrip T5: The versatile and sturdy paint stripping system by ALIT Technologies

Fastrip T5 is the range of paint stripping tanks with a capacity of 800 litres, which combines sturdiness, flexibility and process efficiency for an optimal stripping result.

On the November 2020 issue of the specialized magazine ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine, an article about the Fastrip T5 paint stripping tanks has been published. Fastrip T5 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.

The Fastrip T5 system is available in three versions:

  • 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 article was also published in Spanish and Portuguese on the November issue of ipcm® Ibérica e ipcm® LatinoAmérica.

Read the full article:

ALIT designs in remote a new in-line paint stripping system

The lockdown due to the pandemic did not stop ALIT Technologies’ team, who managed to complete the project for an in-line paint stripping machine, commissioned by a customer from Eastern Europe, despite the international travel restrictions.

During the health emergency of the first months of this year, an important Eastern European company contacted Alit Technologies for the design and installation of a system for the in-line paint stripping of hooks, to be integrated into a vertical coating line with a capacity of 2.2 m/min. 

“Although we received this request during the most critical period of the pandemic, that is, when national  and international travel was completely forbidden,” says Rossi, “with the collaboration of the entire technical team of Alit Technologies, working through remote connection, we were able to provide the customer with the optimal solution. Finally, in September, we supplied them with a tank type 1600, among the largest in terms of size of the ISP range”, explains ALIT’s CEO Loris Rossi on the pages of ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine.

Characteristics of the in-line paint stripping system

The system supplied consists of a horizontal tank from the 1600 series, made entirely of AISI 304 stainless steel with dimensions of 8400 x 700 mm. The conveyor runs above the tank for the in-line handling of coating hooks and frames. These are immersed and let move inside the paint stripping bath for a variable time of about 3 minutes. While still hanging onto the chain, the hooks come out of the chemical bath without any paint residue and they can be immediately reused for a new coating cycle.

“This plant, designed remotely by our staff, has a few particularly innovative features, that is, the ultrasound devices that we managed to integrate directly on the tank walls and the filter press with a vibratory hopper. This feeds the decanter for the use of a new flocculate called AlitFlock 4840, developed

by us to make the stripping sludge mass much drier”, explains Loris Rossi. 

Finally, in order to optimise the operation of the paint stripping system and achieve the results requested by the customer, ALIT Technologies formulated and developed some special products that are free from NMP (N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone), which have already successfully passed the necessary laboratory tests.

Read below the article published on the international magazine dedicate to surface treatments ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine, issue n. 65 (September/October 2020):

ALIT Technologies among the exhibitors of the CoatVex virtual fair

On occasion of the CoatVex virtual fair event, Fastrip T5 by ALIT is featured on the pages of Verniciatura Industriale.

Fastrip T5 allows effective paint removal from both ferrous metals and light alloys, without compromising their surface.

The Fastrip T5 systems are all built on the concept of “tank within a tank”, thanks to which the sealed external tank also serves a safety basin for fluid containment. They all feature an integrated electric heating system and combine both mechanical and chemical actions together. 

Fastrip T5 is equipped with a separate self-supporting plug-and-play touchscreen control panel and fully programmable cycle parameters. Its sturdiness is ensured by the building materials, including AISI 304, while maximum comfort of use is guaranteed by a professional design. 

The system is perfectly insulated from all sides and equipped with an interlock cover and set up for the fume extraction. 

ALIT Technologies also offers extra option such as customizable workpiece holders and a fume extraction system.

Read the article on Verniciatura Industriale and contact us for further information!

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