The cleaning process, which plays a vital role for the quality of a finish, follows the polishing phase and is aimed at eliminating residual greasy pastes, which are very difficult to remove.
The reorganisation aimed at relaunching the company has also involved the production policies and technologies for those stages that give its handles an added value.
“Valli&Valli is becoming again a company able to provide the market with exclusive products that competitors do not offer,” Gloria Sormani, the general manager, says. “The commonly understood notion of design has had its day: now, it is necessary to go further and combine it with technological changes in terms of both product and production process. That is why we have reorganised our whole production flow and implemented new technologies in each process step.”
One of the stages subjected to a complete technological change has been the cleaning one: considering the importance of finishes for the handles manufactured by Valli&Valli, it is easy to understand that a process aimed at removing cleaning and polishing pastes, which are particularly difficult to remove contaminants, is strategic for the end product quality.
The company has replaced an old perchlorethylene machine with a modern vacuum cleaning machine operating with modified alcohols, provided by IFP Europe (Cittadella, Padova, Italy). This system also implements the ultrasound system SONOPUSH MONO® HD of the German company Weber Ultrasonics GmbH, particularly effective and suitable for “complex” cleaning operations.
