{"id":14046,"date":"2017-10-13T14:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cieeng.com\/talex-excellence-in-extrusion-and-finishing-technology-for-high-tech-hard-aluminium-alloy-profiles\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:19:25","slug":"talex-excellence-in-extrusion-and-finishing-technology-for-high-tech-hard-aluminium-alloy-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cieeng.com\/zh-hans\/talex-excellence-in-extrusion-and-finishing-technology-for-high-tech-hard-aluminium-alloy-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"TALEX: Excellence in Extrusion and Finishing Technology for High-Tech Hard Aluminium Alloy Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The IPCM International PAINT&COATING has dedicated the following article to CIE for his waste water treatment plant at TALEX (Abu Dhabi \u2013 U.A.E)<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Abu Dhabi is a thriving global business centre on the Arabian Gulf coast. With the government investing billions of dollars in the diversification of its economy and infrastructure, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates is rapidly turning into one of the most important economic, industrial and commercial centres in the world.<\/p>\n

The Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) is an integral part of the Economic Vision 2030 of the Emirate, an ambitious multi-year economic transformation program to be completed by 2030 to further develop all non-hydrocarbon activities. Aluminium, iron, steel, glass, metal, plastics and petrochemical are just some of the heavy industry fields selected to stimulate growth in the manufacturing sector and create new job opportunities for the citizens of the UAE.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 1. : KIZAD is the commercial, logistic and industrial hub of Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The strategic location of this industrial area connecting the East with the West, coupled with multimodal transport infrastructure (sea, air, road and rail), facilitates the business activities by providing easy and efficient access to more than 4.5 billion consumers across four time zones. In the middle of KIZAD (Fig. 1<\/strong>), there is Taweelah Aluminium Extrusion Company LLC (TALEX, ref. Opening photo<\/strong>), the most advanced aluminium extrusion and finishing plant in the Middle East and the 2016 winner of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) award in the category Industrial Project of the Year. TALEX is a joint venture between SENAAT, the Abu Dhabi Holding Company, and Gulf Extrusion, a company of the Al Ghurair Group, with extensive manufacturing expertise and a global sales network.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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A fully vertically integrated production process<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure\u00a0 2. The large size of the horizontal powder coating plant supplied to TALEX by Trasmetal (Milan).<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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TALEX designs and produces high quality aluminium profiles. No other material features the same versatility and environmental compatibility characteristics, and TALEX takes advantage of these unique qualities to design innovative components and solutions starting from the selection of the most suitable aluminium alloy for each application. TALEX\u2019 production process starts from liquid primary molten metal delivered by EGA to its own cast house converting to precision machined aluminium products in it is fully vertically integrated premises. Its plant plot area, covering 200,000 m2<\/sup>, 72,000 of which are covered, and built on a greenfield site in less than five years with a total investment of over 240 million dollars, provides to its prestigious customers casting, extrusion, surface treatment and fabricated aluminium products around the world.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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TALEX\u2019 Chairman Ali Murshed Al Marar has stated that, \u201cAs part of the effort to diversify the economy of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, TALEX is the result of the amalgamation of key strengths available in the UAE as well as the drive of its two leading shareholders.<\/p>\n

The presence of a unique aluminium smelter concentration, state of the art port and logistics facilities and a well-established aluminium extrusion industry have enabled us to establish the ultimate extrusion plant that increases the region’s industrial capacity and capabilities to unprecedented levels.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 3. The power & free conveyor designed and built by Futura Convogliatori Aerei has a net load capacity of 500 kg.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Figure 4. Cisart provided two anodising lines, one for profiles up to 7.2 metres and one for profiles up to 14.2 metres.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Our goal is to establish Abu Dhabi and the UAE as one of the world\u2019s leading aluminium extrusions centres of excellence. TALEX will enable us to exploit new possibilities in the upcoming architectural landscape and will also be an enabler for the automotive and aerospace industries as they seek to achieve the demanding technological leap and associated weight reduction that these industries must attain in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Across the world, innovation cycles are shrinking and companies that do not respond to these changes risk being left behind. We have spared no effort in equipping our plant with the finest technology available. We have maximized our level of automation so that our objective, which is to deliver a complete solution to our customers and grow with their needs, can be achieved.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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For TALEX, choosing the best available technology has meant to rely on a pool of Italian suppliers of surface treatment equipment. Trasmetal (Milan) designed and installed its horizontal powder coating system (Fig. 2<\/strong>), one of the largest, versatile and technologically advanced in the world. This integrates a power & free conveyor (Fig. 3<\/strong>) with a capacity of 1,000 kg (including bars) per rack, designed by Futura Convogliatori Aerei (Robecco Pavese, Pavia). Cisart (Coccaglio, Brescia) provided the two anodising systems, a \u201cshort\u201d one for bars up to 7 metres and a \u201clong\u201d one for bars up to 14 metres (Fig. 4)<\/strong><\/p>\n

CIE Engineering (San Zenone al Lambro, Milan) developed an innovative treatment system for the coating and anodising processes\u2019 waste water, which will be implemented in three phases, about two years apart; it will enable the company to achieve a closed-loop operation and recover 95% of the water used (Fig. 5<\/strong>), a key factor in competitiveness and environmental compliance given the region’s water scarcity and the severity of the government’s drainage limits.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure\u00a0 5. A bird\u2019s eye view of the waste water treatment system developed by CIE Engineering. In the foreground, the transfer pit area and the buffer area.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Impressive equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 7. From left to right, Trasmetal Area Manager Franco Gioia, TALEX Operation Manager Sajid Hussein, TALEX Surface Treatment Manager Gy\u00f6rgy Heged\u00fcs, and CIE Engineering General Manager Rosario Patricelli.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\u201cThis project officially started in 2011, but the construction of the factory only began in 2014: it took us almost three years to choose the best available technologies needed for this ambitious extrusion, surface treatment and manufacturing plant. We have been supported by a European consulting firm in this long journey,\u201d says Sajid Hussain, the Operation Manager of TALEX (Fig. 7<\/strong>). \u201cThe project was completed in the first quarter of 2017, with the exception of two buildings that will be finished during Phase 2. In full operation, the factory will have about 380 employees. It owns an impressive number of plants and systems and the layout has been developed to ensure that the production flow is perfectly optimised. For example, all the extrusion lines are oriented in one direction and followed by the logistics area, so that the profiles are safely and cleanly handled and transferred to the coating and anodising plant. Finally, the unloading stations of the two surface treatment systems have been designed to facilitate packaging and shipping.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cTALEX also has an advanced foundry with an annual capacity of 45,000 tonnes of billets with five different diameters, 7\u201d, 8\u201d, 9\u201d, 10\u201d, and 11\u201d, with the possibility of increasing the number of diameters available in the near future. After quality control in an ultrasonic station, the billets are processed in a continuous homogenisation and cascade air cooling line.<\/p>\n

The cutting and packaging line supplies billets with a maximum length of 7 metres. The extruded profiles are available with three different surface finishes: mill finish, anodized or powder coated aluminium.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 8. A side view of the coating system.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 9. The \u201cshort\u201d anodising line.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The two extrusion presses, with a capacity of 25 and 35 tonnes, can extrude profiles with any kind of shape, even the most complex ones and aluminium alloy. The extruded profiles are primarily intended for the architecture, automotive, transportation, marine, defence and general engineering applications of Australian, USA, Canada, European, Indian, and of course the Middle East markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for powder coating, TALEX has ordered Trasmetal a cutting-edge horizontal plant able to treat up to 8.2 metres long profiles meeting the Qualicoat standards (Fig. 8<\/strong>) and achieve a productivity of up to 14,000 tonnes\/year, corresponding to about 5 million square metres of aluminium surface.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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There are two anodising lines, both fully meeting the Qualanod standards: a \u201cshort\u201d one for profiles up to 7.2 metres (Fig. 9<\/strong>) and a \u00a0\u201clong\u201d one for profiles up to 14.2 metres. Both surface finishing areas are equipped with a dedicated lab that constantly monitors the quality of processes according to the European regulations. For its coating and anodising plants (Fig. 10<\/strong>), TALEX ordered CIE Engineering a fully automated chemical-physical waste water treatment system. It will be implemented in three phases up to achieving the zero-liquid discharge goal (Fig. 11<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 10. A bird\u2019s eye view of the building housing the surface treatment and automatic packaging department.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 11. The chemical-physical treatment plant for the coating and anodising processes\u2019 waste water.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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The high-precision manufacturing unit integrates crimping, precision machining with 4 and 5 axis high speed CNCs, cleaning, deburring and custom-length cutting processes. The mechanical properties of the crimped profiles are tested in compliance with the BS EN 14024 and the international standards. Finally, TALEX has created a fully automated logistics and handling unit to ensure fast, flexible and responsive packaging and dispatch.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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A horizontal coating plant for greater flexibility<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 12.\u00a0 A bottom view of the power & free conveyor.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cWhen signing our contract, TALEX asked us to design a very innovative coating plant, especially in terms of automation, in order to reduce the number of operators on the line and achieve maximum flexibility,\u201d says Franco Gioia, the Area Manager of Trasmetal. \u201cThe choice fell on a horizontal painting line for two main reasons: the considerable weight of some profiles and the versatility required to coat profiles with different sizes and shapes, and\u00a0 above all intended for very different applications, which translates into equally differently paints and thicknesses to be applied. Moreover, the plant was designed and equipped with all the devices needed to dedicate the right time to each process stage, with the aim of obtaining high-quality finishes. Vertical lines ensure high quality and high productivity, but they do not allow for the integration of any touch-up stations. However, these are crucial for a firm that mainly manufactures profiles for industrial use like TALEX, since the homogeneity of thicknesses and the variability of shapes call for greater application accuracy also in the most difficult to reach areas.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cAn important feature of this plant is Futura Convogliatori Aerei\u2019s power & free conveyor. With a net load capacity of 500 kg (1,000 kg, including the weight of bars), it is impressive for an aluminium profile coating line (Fig. 12<\/strong>). It is characterised by several storage buffers along the path of the racks, ensuring a flexible process flow with no bottlenecks nor productivity losses (Fig. 13<\/strong>). For the loading and unloading stations, we were asked to keep the general layout of the factory in consideration, in order to allocate as much space as possible for these two stages and, at the same time, integrate some downstream operations such as packaging. Since the rack management structure is located at the second level, the loading station has two precise drop sections from which the racks descend to enable the profiles to be hung (Fig. 14<\/strong>) and through which they return to be automatically transferred to the robots of the immersion pre-treatment line (Fig. 15<\/strong>). The robots have a lifting capacity of about 2,000 kg because they handle 3 bars at a time. The immersion pre-treatment line is also ready for the possible integration of an alkaline degreasing process and its related cleaning stages with countercurrent fresh water, which are not included at the moment.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 14. The loading station. The two drop stations can be clearly seen.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 15. The immersion pre-treatment line can handle 3 bars at a time to ensure the highest possible productivity.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cAs for the powder application phase, TALEX required two high productivity booths with a quick colour change system. We opted for Gema\u2019s Magic Cylinder booths (Fig. 16<\/strong>) featuring a conventional powder feeding system with Venturi injectors (Fig. 17<\/strong>). The peculiarity of this solution is that the two booths can also work simultaneously, if there is the need to reduce the line speed due to the geometrical complexity of the profiles, without this resulting in any loss of production. However, in the case of a standard production,\u00a0<\/em>one of the two booths is devoted to light colours, the other to the dark ones (Fig. 18<\/strong>). \u00a0Again with the aim of maximum flexibility, they both feature downstream and upstream automatic buffers to ensure a fluid and adaptable process flow.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Trasmetal collaborated with other suppliers of TALEX, such as the company that produced the in-line packaging machine, in order to integrate all the coating plant stations with the general layout. The profile unloading area (Fig. 19<\/strong>) has two workstations: one in line with the packaging machine and the other devoted to special profiles that cannot be packaged.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Figure 16. For the powder application, TALEX chose two Magic Cylinder booths with a quick colour change system, supplied by Gema Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cThe high-water saving pre-treatment process starts with an acid degreasing stage in two tanks working in parallel,\u201d states TALEX\u2019 Surface Treatment Manager Gy\u00f6rgy Heged\u00fcs. \u201cThis is followed by two rinses with countercurrent cascade fresh water and a rinse with demineralised water to safeguard the surface conversion phase. The conversion process uses a chrome-free, zirconium-titanium-based product. The last stage is another rinse with demineralised water. We chose to install two parallel drying ovens in order not to \u201cstress\u201d any process stage for time reasons and to be able to seamlessly tackle any increase in productivity in future. Currently, the plant handles 15 racks\/hour with a takt time of 4 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cThe coating booths are air conditioned, pressurised and dust-free,\u201d says Gy\u00f6rgy Heged\u00fcs. \u201cOnce out of the drying ovens, the bars are diverted to one of the two application booths \u2013 all these transfer areas are closed to keep them separate from the working environment and they are equipped with an air recirculation and conditioning system that maintains the same temperature and humidity parameters in all seasons. Before entering the polymerisation oven, the profiles pass through an IR station with profile automatic recognition bars to adjust the distance of the racks from the IR panels (Fig. 20<\/strong>). Finally, the polymerisation time is adjusted according to the profile size, the paint thickness and the intended use of the product.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cWe chose Trasmetal as the supplier of our horizontal line based on its experience, technology, technical assistance and, last but not least, its ability to find the best solution to our needs. The most difficult request put to them was the design of a line that was perfect for different types of products, not just for architecture profiles,\u201d states Sajid Hussein.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cTrasmetal manufactures only tailor-made lines: we do not have any standard product,\u201d says Franco Gioia. \u201cIn time, we have built a few vertical lines for profiles up to 12 metres, but these are quite rare. Considering the requests of TALEX, we thought that a horizontal plant would have been more appropriate, especially because they produce items for both architecture and industry, including very heavy-weighted profiles. In the future, TALEX may well decide to add a vertical line devoted to architectural components only, if there will be an increase in the demand for this type of profiles.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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Sustainability is an important component of TALEX\u2019 mission, especially considering that this aluminium extrusion giant is located in an area where water is scarce and where the government has imposed much more restrictive discharge limits than the European ones. \u201cWaste water treatment is a critical stage: for us, it is vitally important to reuse process water and optimise its consumption,\u201d says Sajid Hussein. \u201cThe technology of CIE (Compagnia Italiana Ecologia) stands out amongst all the other in terms of efficiency and ease of management.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe waste water treatment and recovery system that we supplied to TALEX handles the whole amount of process water of the finishing department,\u201d adds Rosario Patricelli, the Technical Sales Manager of CIE. \u201cAs we said, water is a major issue not only due to its cost and scarcity \u2013 TALEX currently receives water in tanks since the water connection is being completed \u2013 but also to the quality standard imposed on discharges in terms of fixed residue (Total Dissolved Solids, TDS). That is why they asked us to implement a step-by-step project with the ultimate goal of creating a Zero Liquid Discharge plant, i.e. recovering at least 95% of process water. TALEX is now in Phase 1: we installed a chemical-physical treatment plant with the PURAL technology, which recovers all acidic waste water, i.e. the process water coming from the anodising and pre-treatment stages, and enables us to reuse it in alkaline rinses, thus achieving a 50% reduction in the water required by the finishing lines. The alkaline attack baths of the anodising process are currently stored and disposed of by a specialised firm, since treating them in this Phase would not enable us to respect the conductivity limit imposed on waste water, equal to 2,500 \u00b5S\/cm.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring Phase 2, the recovery of the process water used on the finishing lines will increase to 75% thanks to the installation of special membrane recovery systems, i.e. ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis. Also the concentrates from the alkaline attack baths of the anodic oxidation process will be treated on the existing plants and will be not disposed of anymore. The last stage of the project, Phase 3, will involve the installation of energy-recovery evaporators (vacuum multi-effect devices) to treat the liquid coming from the osmosis systems. This will create a closed loop system for the recovery of waste water, with an efficiency of no less than 95%.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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\u201cBy applying our proven PURAL system, we provided a very special water treatment process that enables TALEX to purify its acidic waste water by recirculating it in its alkaline baths, thus cutting consumption by 50% and meeting all the local regulations,\u201d says Patricelli. \u201cWe have considered the different streams of water separately since the beginning. The waste water is conveyed into a transfer pit area where it is selected depending on its quality. Then, it reaches a large storage area ensuring a flexible production and avoiding any \u201cstresses\u201d even in the water treatment stage, because the quality of water is closely related to the quality of production (Fig. 21<\/strong>). From the buffer area, the waste water is sent to the treatment system: the chemical-physical process (Fig. 22<\/strong>) is already sufficient to significantly reduce the content of sulphates, aluminium, and organic residues and reach the quality level needed to feed the alkaline baths. In future, the alkaline stages\u2019 water will be treated by removing any kind of contamination, especially aluminium and COD. The discharged water meets the limits imposed by the local authorities. All machine operations are automatic (Fig. 23<\/strong>): the plant features all the BAT for SCADA systems, electronic devices and controls in order to minimise the maintenance times and facilitate the work for operators. It is ready for the implementation of Phases 2 and 3.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWaste water does not make any profit,\u201d states Rosario Patricelli. \u201cTherefore, our goal is to design plants that require a minimum staff and the minimum possible time for every operation. CIE also supplies the closed-loop production plant of demineralised water used for the anodising and coating lines, while for the sludge treatment we have installed fully automatic filter presses without any operator supervision.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n

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TALEX: an industry 4.0 company<\/strong><\/p>\n

Similarly to all other production machines, both the coating and the water treatment systems have their own software package and an integrated PLC. However, they are also interconnected with the main management software used by the company to fully track each profile. These \u201cdynamic brains\u201d interact with all production machines, taking and supplying useful data at the same time. \u201cTALEX has fully applied the Industry 4.0 concept,\u201d says Sajid Hussein. \u201cThe system creates all processing reports, from liquid metal to packaged products. We can track the whole production process of every single profile, up to the molten metal used.\u201d<\/p>\n

TALEX is an advanced company operating in the United Arab Emirates, a booming market that is also totally open to the outside world to grasp opportunities of innovation wherever they occur. \u201cThe production capacity of our coating plant is 7.5 t per hour, far greater than that of an average vertical system. There are not many horizontal plants in the world with such capacity; indeed, their productivity is normally six times less than ours is. TALEX\u2019 ultimate goal is to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the huge investment made and become a strategic player for the global industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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