COMPANY
Italian industrial equipment manufacturers, IMPIANTI OMS S.p.a. and CBM MACHINES S.r.l., have decided to combine their experience and expertise in the manufacturing of composite panels into a new company: FIRST S.r.l.
FIRST will be dedicated to designing and supplying a complete range of tailor-made solutions for the production of rigid-faced sandwich panels.
IMPIANTI OMS, a company in Verano Brianza (MB) has more than 40 years experience supplying polyurethane manufacturing systems. OMS is considered the world leader in the production of complete, high-speed lines for the production of flexible-faced panels.
CBM MACHINES, a company in Morimondo (MI), is known for its technical achievements in equipment for processing sheet metal. The quality of CBM’s roll forming lines is undisputed, and the company has applied innovative technical solutions to the continuous and discontinuous production of sandwich panels.
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION
By launching FIRST, the two companies can now concentrate on providing customers better solutions to the following issues:
§ Optimized control of the production process.
§ Greater flexibility in plant management.
§ Improved safety for equipment operators.
§ More efficient product change-overs to reduce plant downtime.
§ Reduced product scraps.
§ Increased recycling of the remaining scrap.
More environmentally friendly processing to reduce and control emissions.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
The joint expertise of OMS and CBM gives FIRST the ability to promote new ideas that can justify investment from a customer who wants to improve the production process.
FIRST will be able to study and test these ideas at a research and development center in Verano Brianza, which contains state-of-the-art polyurethane mixing equipment including:
* Self-cleaning mixing heads;
* Recycling of primary materials up to the final mixing head;
* High-pressure mixing of all additives;
* High-pressure heat exchangers to control process temperatures.
With the cooperation of primary polyurethane raw materials suppliers, FIRST customers will be able to review the proposed solutions and get into production faster because of reduced implementation time.
PLANTS
FIRST’s system offerings will include:
- CONTINUOUS PLANTS for the large-scale manufacturing of polyurethane and rock wool insulated sandwich panels.
- DISCONTINOUS PLANTS for small-scale production of insulated sandwich panels and special applications.
- METAL SHEET PROCESSING, including roll forming lines; slitting and recoiling lines; cut-to-length, embossingand special combined lines for punching, bending and cutting.
For Customers who already have a functioning production plant, FIRST can improve production and product quality with equipment upgrades or modifications.
Some of the available technologies include:
- Gas pentane storage and dosing systems;
- Multiple-head polyurethane lay-down systems;
- Nitrogen nucleation in high pressure;
- System upgrades for the PIR production;
- Metal sheet treatment with distribution of the PRIMER adhesive;
- Solutions for reducing pollution;
- Solutions for recycling production scraps;
- Special software for managing the production orders, monitoring the storage and raw materials consumption
and consequent control of the plant costs;
- Control of the final product quality (thermal rooms for the visualization of product defects, control of final
product geometry, etc.).
CASE HISTORY
OMS and CBM have partnered in the past to offer their customers the same kind of first-quality solutions that FIRST will promote. These projects included:
1. CONTINUOUS LINE for the production of industrial and residential sectional doors.
This system is capable of producing doors with adjustable widths from 366 mm to 800 mm. Its primary characteristic, however, is the technological sophistication of the sheet-metal working section, which had to meet the following specifications:
- Less than 3 minutes to change the type of panel in production.
- Less than 3 minutes to change the format and dimensions of a panel in
production.
- Management of coil storage.
- In-line control of coil color.
- Automatic handling, based upon an open cut list of different types and combinations of products at low
quantities, including color and coil changes during production, 12 different surface patterns, six different cassette patterns, four types of vertical drawings and two types of embossing patterns.
- Reduction of production scrap.
- Very high quality of final product in terms of perfect repeatability, over time, of design and dimensions.
2. CONTINUOUS SYSTEM for the production of residential roof panels with “coppo” and/or “tegola” shapes.
The plant has a production capacity up to 10 m/min. using a flying forming system capable of guaranteeing:
- The greatest flexibility of production.
- Adjustable pressing depth
- Optimization of adjustable “tile” pitch to produce panels of any length and panels that may not use the standard pitch.
- Variability of the forming pitch from a minimum of 170 mm to a pre-determined maximum dimension inside the same panel (different end lengths).
Everything is done automatically without stopping the line. The system guarantees high-quality, easy-to-assemble panels, with particular attention to the stamped section, minimum length tolerances and a precise and constant pressing depth.
The special lateral control of the double belt conveyor makes it possible to produce “tile” panels on the same line as al other standard panels.
3. CONTINUOUS PLANT for the production of sandwich panels for industrial applications such as insulated wall, roof and cold-storage panels.
FIRST’s offerings include solutions for traditional sandwich panel products. These systems can include quick changes of roll formers for the production of different types of panels on the same line and new methods of mixing and laying down the foam to obtain better quality in the final product.
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