{"id":50802,"date":"2023-05-23T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/automatic-in-line-continuous-feed-powder-plant\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:51:36","slug":"automatic-in-line-powder-plant-with-continuous-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/automatic-in-line-powder-plant-with-continuous-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic in-line continuous feed powder plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section  class=\"content-block overflow-hidden margin-big\" style=\"--color-animate-to: #181e25;\">\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n                        <div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n                <div class=\"h1 colorating-text text-gray\"><p>For CO.AR.ME. s.r.l.,an Italian company that manufactures metal furniture and shelving, Eurotherm designed and installed a new automatic in-line continuous feed powder plant complete with pre-treatment tunnel for painting metal cabinets of different sizes and colors for sale in DIY stores throughout Europe. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<style>\n  \/* FIX: selettore corretto senza spazio extra *\/\n  .bordered-title.block-block_a03b223bfe7e085bb69f62fd0103d2dd::before {\n    background-color: #ffffff;\n  }\n<\/style>\n\n<section   class=\"section-wrapper wrapper padding-big\"\n  style=\"background-color: #181e25; --text-color: #ffffff;\">\n\n  <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n      <div class=\"col-lg-4\">\n                  <h2 style=\"color:var(--text-color);\" class=\"mb-5 bordered-title block-block_a03b223bfe7e085bb69f62fd0103d2dd\">\n            Impact\n          <\/h2>\n              <\/div>\n\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n      <!-- layout standard -->\n    \n\n<section  class=\"case-block padding-small\">\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n        <div class=\"row align-items-center mb-5\">\n            <div class=\"col-lg-6\" style=\"color:var(--text-color);\">\n                <h3>Functional pretreatment<\/h3>\n                <p><p>Before being painted, pieces go through a three-stage pretreatment tunnel, which is essential to ensure that surfaces are perfectly clean and free of impurities. The hot degreasing process removes dirt, oils and residue, ensuring better paint adhesion and greater durability of the coating, which is essential for furniture accessories intended for DIY use. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/03-Automatic-powder-painting-line.jpg\" class=\"respimg rounded\" alt=\"Eurotherm\" title=\"Eurotherm\">\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<!-- double image text bottom -->\n<section  class=\"case-block margin-big\">\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n        <div class=\"row mb-5\">\n            <div class=\"col-lg-6 order-2 order-lg-1\">\n                                    <div class=\"respimg-cont rounded mb-3\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04-Automatic-powder-painting-line-1.jpg\" alt=\"Eurotherm\" title=\"Eurotherm\">\n                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col-lg-6 order-1 order-lg-2\" style=\"color:var(--text-color);\">\n                <h3><p>Optimized temperatures<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n                <p><p>After pretreatment and before being transported inside the spray booth, the parts pass into the in-line drying oven at 120\u00b0C to remove all traces of moisture. Following automatic powder coating, the parts pass inside the in-line curing oven, which operates at a temperature of 180\u00b0C. <\/p>\n<p>The optimization of part inlet and outlet temperatures from the furnaces together with modern heat recovery systems is the basis for reducing energy consumption and improving the production yield of the plant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"row mb-5\">\n            <div class=\"col-lg-6\" style=\"color:var(--text-color);\">\n                <h3><p>Ergonomic operations<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n                <p><p>The manual loading and unloading system with integrated ascent and descent system is specifically designed to handle products of different sizes, improve work ergonomics and facilitate personnel operations, reducing physical effort and improving the efficiency of manual operations. After being loaded, the monorail overhead transfer machine automatically transports the parts along the various stages of the painting process, ensuring a continuous and highly efficient production flow. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n                                    <div class=\"respimg-cont rounded mb-3\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02-Automatic-powder-painting-line-1.jpg\" class=\"respimg-cont rounded mb-3\" alt=\"Eurotherm\" title=\"Eurotherm\">\n                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n  \n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<style>\n  .bordered-title::before {\n    background-color: #181e25;\n  }\n<\/style>\n\n<section  class=\"section-wrapper test-big  margin-big\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; --text-color: #181e25;\">\n  <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n                <div class=\"col-lg-2\">\n            <h2 style=\"color:var(--text-color);\" class=\"mb-5 bordered-title h4\">Plus<\/h2>\n        <\/div>\n            \n        <div class=\"col-lg-6 offset-lg-4 h3\">\n            <p><p><span style=\"color: #797979;\">In keeping with the requirement expressed by the Client, the existing automatic powder coating booth was restored and integrated into the plant, which was designed to occupy as little space as possible, thus providing significant savings on time and cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #797979;\">One of the greatest difficulties has been to<\/span> <span style=\"color: #181e25;\">completing the work during the summer production shutdown<\/span><span style=\"color: #797979;\">, with the need to dismantle the old plant and integrate the new equipment with reduced timelines. Despite the complexity, the challenge was successfully overcome. The plant is now capable of  <\/span> <span style=\"color: #181e25;\">paint up to 250 cabinets per single shift<\/span>,<span style=\"color: #797979;\"> providing a significant increase in productivity compared to the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-50802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","tag-furniture-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53611,"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802\/revisions\/53611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotherm.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}