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01/04/2004
In the new industrial pole of Cambrai, the company Tanis – a joint venture between the French group Treves and the Spanish group Antolin – invested almost 29 million euros. On a wide area of 80,000 square metres, a modern 22,000 m2 building was created, dedicated to plastic components injection moulding. The company manufactures coatings for automobiles, such as doors, dashboards, interior roofs, covering panels for floors etc for important automotive companies, primarily for the French Renault. The Piovan project developed for Tanis can be summed up in a single key word: flexibility. Flexible is, in fact, the whole management of the system and of materials.
Started up in the middle of 2003, the Tanis injection moulding department includes at present 21 injection moulding machines of various dimensions, ranging from 800 up to a maximum of 2,000 tonnes. The production area, which in the future will host 25 IMMs in total, is destined exclusively for the primary machines. The ancillary equipment dedicated to materials preparation and treatment, however, is present in a separate room, in order to allow for management that is independent from the main process and to allow more simple interventions by the operator. In this operative centre all operations of transport and material distribution, of hot drying of some polymers and dosing and blending of the different typologies of granules are carried out.
Once again Piovan did not have the simple role of supplier, but rather that of partner able to follow the Customer in the development of more adequate plant solutions and to share with him experiences and skills in the treatment of plastic materials. By taking choices which went hand in hand with the architectural structures already in place and with a distribution logic already partially established, Piovan has realised a customised system for the Customer, open to future developments. |
