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Season’s Greetings
December 24, 2019. Season’s Greetings from all of us at ALIT Technologies.
Our company will be closed from December 23rd and will reopen on January 7th, 2020.
Pasturi chooses ALIT for the new paint stripping process
Pasturi, an architectural aluminium profile company, has chosen ALIT Fastrip ISP for the stripping of its hanging hooks.
To strip the profile hanging hooks between one coating cycle and another, Pasturi, a company extruding aluminium profiles for several different sectors, including architecture and design, has installed the Fastrip ISP stripping plant by ALIT.
The in-line plant installed at Pasturi strips the profile hanging hooks in less than three minutes, helping increase the line speed and reduce energy consumption and process costs.
Pasturi’s Fastrip in-line system features a 6-metre-long chemical stripping tank with a capacity of 2 tonnes of product and a hook immersion depth of 30 cm.
Completely built in stainless steel, this horizontal tank is jacketed and it contains a circuit fed with electrically heated diathermic oil, in order to guarantee low operating costs and optimum temperature maintenance.
The peculiar design of this plant allows flexibly managing various components and options, from the ultrasound arrangement to the type of recirculation pump and suction system: everything must be adaptable to an ever-evolving process flow.
Read below the full article published on the international surface treatment magazine ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine, issue n. 59 (September/October 2019):
SUMMER CLOSURE 12 to 23 AUGUST
August 1, 2019.ALIT Technologies closes for the summer period from 12 to 23 August inclusive. If your summer holidays take you to Italy, perhaps to visit cities of art like our beautiful Verona, don’t miss the events of the Arena’s opera season. Here is the reference website to book an unforgettable evening.
PSP counts on the new Fastrip spray technology to treat automotive components
PSP Sverniciature, one of the Italian pioneers of contracting paint stripping, has installed a Fastrip paint stripping plant.
The paint stripping machine developed by ALIT is based on the spray application technology and responded to PSP Sverniciature’s need to offer, in addition to the paint stripping of coating frames and accessories, a process suitable for all the materials that are difficult to handle with the cryogenic and thermal technologies, such as for example the aluminium workpieces constituting automotive components and design products like handles and lamps.
The advantages of the spray technology
The spray application technology ensures several advantages: it requires products that have a low environmental impact, which are activated at 120°C (i.e. almost the double of the temperature required by immersion processes, occurring at 50 or 60°C) but have very high flash points and are not toxic.
As a further benefit, they also allow performing a “soft stripping” operation, i.e. a delicate stripping process that does not change the molecular structure of the workpiece or the chemistry of metal, which can thus maintain its peculiar
resistance characteristics.
The Fastrip paint stripping plant is used to recover products in any type of metal, especially aluminium and similar alloys, with defective coatings.
The paint stripping process
The plant is a modular system with one tank. The parts are loaded into a basket that subsequently enters the first tank, where they are treated at a temperature of 120°C. During the spraying of the paint stripping product, the basket rotates by 360° for the whole cycle, which ends with a suction phase. After checking that all workpieces have been properly stripped, the basket is removed from the stripping tank and is placed in a second, identical tank containing water at 70°C to rinse the components. In this way, after verifying that they have been stripped in compliance with specifications, the parts can be immediately packaged and prepared for delivery.
The system’s modular structure allows replacing only the saturated bath while using the second tank for cleaning and rinsing, so that it is not necessary to completely replace the stripping solution.
Besides meeting the PSP’s paint stripping requirements, ALIT staff identified other critical issues related to this process. That is why we tried to provide PSP with a complete system integrated with all useful devices to make its operation cost effective and eco-friendly. In addition to the new stripping technology, ALIT engineers designed and installed a diathermic oil heater, a scrubber for fume abatement, and a sludge treatment unit.
“Thanks to the Fastrip system, the diversity of materials and the recovery attempts performed by the applicator are no longer an issue: the defective coating removal speed and the ability to perform a multi-metal treatment have solved these problems and even streamlined the process, revolutionising the way in which paint stripping has always been conceived”, stated Massimiliano Prederi, owner of PSP Sverniciature.
Read below the full article published on the international surface treatment magazine ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine, issue n. 57 (May/June 2019), and contact us for further information!
ALIT to attend the annual conference of the AFMSZ Hungarian Aluminum Surface Treaters’ Association
May 6, 2019. ALIT Technologies was invited to present its systems for chemical paint stripping of metals at the annual conference of AFMSZ, the Hungarian Aluminum Surface Treaters’ Association. The event is scheduled for 9 and 10 May in Nyiregyhaza.
ALIT will be present along with its sales manager Pietro Mandorino who will particularly illustrate the new Fastrip S, vertical spraying machines for chemical stripping of metals (suitable for treating iron) as well as metal and light alloy workpieces without damaging their surfaces. In addition, Fastrip T5, the range of medium-sized stripping tanks (available in three types): ultrasound technology, with an air agitation system, and with an agitation mixer will also be showcased. These units effectively remove the coating layers that get deposited on ferrous and non-ferrous metals, safeguarding their surfaces and extending their service life. In addition to the chemical products developed by the ALIT laboratories to optimize the performance of company technologies.
The company is looking forward to make new inroads into the Hungarian market. “We are delighted and we really welcome this invitation because we believe the Hungarian market is particularly important to us given that it has industries in sectors that are strategic, such as the automotive and aluminium industries, where our technologies and knowledge on metal stripping can certainly find interest and consensus.”
ALIT technologies paves the way for key savings both in terms of time and money, allowing even small to medium-sized companies to install their own functional system in order to restore badly painted parts with moderate investments.
ALIT Technologies @ MIDEST 5 to 8 March Lyon
27 Feb 2019. ALIT Technologies will be attending the MIDEST Exhibition – Eurexpo – 05th to 08th March 2019 – Lyon – Stand ITA – Italian Trade Agency (F140), Hall 5. MIDEST is the world’s largest show exclusively dedicated to industrial subcontracting and face to face meetings.
Q&A How can paint removal baths be made to last for a long time?
14 Jan 2019. The chemical formulations used for paint stripping, result from the skills that every company in the sector guards passionately. The formulations also have a considerably high incidence in the general costs of paint stripping processes. Nevertheless, the baths can last for years, and, if the right precautions are taken, they can last for nearly five years before requiring reintegration or replacement.
How should they be treated? Using an effective filtering system is paramount, and this is what Alit Technologies recommends when it invites its industrial partners to equip itself with its Fastrip FP press filter in addition to the Fastrip ISP system for in-line stripping. It eases the perfect ‘maintenance’ of chemical baths, keeping them clean from paint residues. It also allows the pressing and squeezing of the wasted paint, reducing it to a dry compound that is easy to handle and removing the precious paint stripping solution from it.
The waste, as seen in the image captured recently at a Thai customer’s industrial premises, becomes solidified and manageable and not dirty, with the cost of its disposal lower than it would be for its liquid version. The experience of the Thai customer, who is currently using the Alit formulation METALSTRIP 1460 + METALSTRIP AKTIVATOR 1660 is an excellent example that confirms the possibility of obtaining less waste to be disposed of and chemical baths in a good condition indefinitely.
Season’s Greetings
12 Dec 2018. Our offices will be closed from Monday 24 to Friday 4 January 2019. Best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and a Wonderful New Year.
Q&A Why do well-stripped hooks ease an optimal painting?
12 Nov 2018. The hooks or frames used to transport items to be painted in industrial lines should be stripped off well before being reused, for the simple reason that the presence of paint particles that have not been removed properly during cleaning, decrease the electrostatic effect. In this regard, read the comments of one of our clients, Mr Andreas Marcou, who is Muskita’s plant manager at page 50 of IPCM’s October issue where he is pointing out the importance of electrostatic conductivity.
In electrostatic painting, the paint powder sticks to the product due to the electrostatic effect, but the possible presence of paint from a previous process generates a repulsive barrier between successive layers.
Therefore, by cleaning the support hook well, the number of items that are painted badly and must be reworked is reduced drastically. This also allows a reduction in paint consumption.
For this reason, Alit recommends its Fastrip ISP technology In-line paint Stripping Process, a system of heated tanks containing chemical paint-stripping solutions that are placed between the writing probe and the loading probe of the painting process. During their passage, the hooks or frames to be cleaned are immersed in the tank and, within a few minutes, in relation to the paint used and the working temperature, come out at the end of the process perfectly cleaned. They are then ready for optimal reuse and are able to promote maximum electrostatic conductivity in the subsequent processes.
