When you are dealing with fibre cement or cement-bonded products, one thing is the surface finish, another is what happens beneath the surface, to the structure of the product.

In the first case you will be looking at the aesthetic qualities, aiming for an attractive finish, for example for an architectural siding. In the second case you will be concerned with achieving structural characteristics that ensure your siding will stand the test of time. Each of these aspects is a fundamental requisite that the finishing process must cater for: surface enhancement and structural enhancement.

By taking care of the functional characteristics of your fibre cement product, you are effectively guaranteeing its value over time, setting the quality of your product at a higher level. Mould, hailstorms, pollution and even vandalism may affect the external surface, efflorescence is an issue for the internal structure.

Manufacturers and processors of fibre cement composite products are increasingly looking for water-repellent products that increase resistance to weathering and avoid the lamination of subsequent aesthetic layers, as well as preventing deterioration caused by extreme temperature fluctuations.

It is crucial to avoid the formation of mould, fungus, moss and rot, and last but not least, help resistance to external factors with products to ensure surface hardness against vandalism (incisions) and washable, anti-graffiti surfaces.

In the case of corrugated roofing sheets, products are needed that allow breathability so that normal thermal expansion due to climate change does not damage the aesthetics of the product, preventing water absorption, freeze-thaw damage, growth of fungi, algae and moss, and providing UV resistance.

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All these issues are well known to us and we have the necessary experience to guide you in the choice of finishing technologies to enhance the value of your product. For sidings, flat boards, corrugated sheets, slates, tiles or other roof fittings and accessories, we have a tried and tested solution.

From the initial priming to the final coat, our solutions for fibre cement products such as roof tiles or sidings are numerous. Let’s discuss your needs and find the right combination of equipment to handle your product. But first, check out our experience in finishing cement-bonded materials.

If you make sidings, check out this page.

If you make other fibre cement or cement-bonded products, visit this page.

Whether you’re into horizontal spray coating or vertical applications, we at Cefla Finishing have been building innovative spray coaters since the 1960’s, installing them around the world  and developing new solutions year after year to increase production efficiency, enhance the quality of the final product and enable lower operating costs.

Open-air office environments have been all the rage in recent years, but recent changes in our communities, including social distancing policies, are giving wall partition and cubicle systems a come-back. Even conference rooms are having to be rethought to encourage safe working environments. The solution: modular, even temporary, structures are helping employers stay flexible.

Hard and soft surfaces for office and lobby furniture can be made from a variety of materials, including wood, plastic, material, and recycled materials. Furniture can be mass produced or can be as unique as the individual who requested it, it is based much on personal taste, preferred style, trends, and budget. No matter the material, taste or budget, all office furniture requires a finish to enhance its features and provide durability.

Cefla Finishing’s technologies and solutions enhance the look of wall partitions, table surfaces, chairs, lobby furniture, cubicles. A proper finish provides a beautiful and safe working environments for employees and customers, while offering a durable surface that is easy to clean. Cefla Finishing technologies result from over 70 years of experience, bringing you the best automated solutions for the treatment and painting office furniture and office wall systems.

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iGiotto when used in conjunction with our exclusive cVision 3D Reading Barrier ensures time savings through coating process automation, improves the quality and consistency, thus leading to reduced lacquer consumption and lower costs. Faced with the following key issues, companies can become instantly more competitive by investing in a system where special software and automation provide immediate benefits.

These are the main challenges we have addressed:

• PROGRAMMING
Today’s options allow you to manually program a robot by physically guiding its spraying arms around the complex geometrical shape. The robot learns how to move and replicates the movement piece after piece. You can also program point-to-point trajectories using a software off-line, but each batch will require your manual intervention to enter data into the software to obtain the coating parameters.

• COATING
Apart from the cost of a skilled operator, manual spraying of window frames often leads to fluctuating yields and coating inconsistency. Lacquer consumption frequently exceeds the optimal amount by 15 to 30%, leading to high filter replacement and disposal costs.

• OUTPUT
Production batches can often be small or customised. Operators will need to stop the line for colour changeover or to re-program the trajectories.

All this is an obstacle to production efficiency and incurs costly downtime. So let’s see how we have solved these issues:

cVision avoids the need to manually program an anthropomorphic robot. This means no time at all spent defining trajectories. It’s all done automatically. cVision acquires the 3D image of the piece to be coated and uses its special software to determine the best trajectories. You save time (at least 50%), can be sure of obtaining optimal parameters and consistent coating quality from the first piece to the last. When iGiotto comes into play, the robot capitalises on the accuracy and optimisation of the pre-defined trajectories. In the case of doors, spraying with the new 3-gun wrist now saves considerably on lacquer consumption and ensures the best possible quality and consistency. Colour changes can be performed without even stopping the equipment, even for different products, so downtime is eliminated. And as new pieces enter the overhead line, the software makes sure iGiotto can switch from one piece to the next and one colour to the next without interrupting production.

More info about iGiotto and cVision

iGiotto
iGiotto is a complete spray coating system for water-based and solvent-based products using an anthropomorphic robot designed to paint large-sized objects such as doors, window frames or objects with a complex shape, and materials other than wood. Products transit on overhead lines and exit the spraying area into a drying tunnel before being collected in batches. Constant speed and constant distance between the spray guns and the product optimise lacquer consumption and ensure coating consistency. In environmental terms, lower consumption and less waste improves sustainability. 

cVision
The latest-generation, automatic 3D reading system (laser + camera) acquires position, size and shape of pieces in transit with unprecedented precision. The combined action of the laser and ultra-high resolution cameras allow iGiotto to automatically generate precise work trajectories based on the “recipes” of objects present in its database.

Of course, if you say patented savings everyone wonders what you’re talking about. How can you patent a saving? Well you can’t, but what you can do is patent the way you reduce costs and if the system you design saves significant amounts in the long term, well it’s worth patenting. We patented our spray cleaning technology so you can save money.

Working with a sprayer or a robot with a belt that allows paint recovery means cleaning the belt regularly to remove any trace of the applied product. The more paint you recover, the less you spend.

If your spray cleaning system is conventional, you will not only throw away a lot of paint, but you will also use a significant amount of detergent. Conventional systems also lead to rapid belt deterioration, either through the abrasion from belt cleaner blades or aggressive solvents.

A system ensuring maximum cleaning potential recovers more paint and enables you to use less detergent during running time. Less detergent means lower operating costs, it safeguards your equipment and ensures a healthier environment. On average ruined belts are replaced monthly, meaning a full day of downtime every 20 working days. This frequency can be avoided.

Our patented spray cleaning system can be fitted to our Roctre, Mito and Easy oscillating spray machines. You will benefit from:

• increased paint recovery
• detergent consumption which drops to around 50 litres per shift
• fewer production stoppages to replace belts
• minimal end-of-session cleaning times
• enhanced production efficiency

Coating external doors can be done in many ways. The best way to increase output, improve the coating quality and reduce production costs is possible with just one machine.

iGiotto, with its new 3-gun wrist saves on lacquer consumption and ensures premium quality and consistency. Colour changes can be performed without even stopping the equipment, eliminating downtime. And as new pieces enter the overhead line, the software controlling the process lets iGiotto switch from one piece to the next and one colour to the next without interrupting production. This combination of benefits - ability to perform just-in-time production, full control over surface finishing quality, no downtime - merges into one major factor: superior productivity.

Today iGiotto, with its process control software, helps customers achieve production targets that were unheard of with manual spraying techniques, both in terms of quality, productivity and cost-efficiency. Spraying times are reduced by approx. 40% and there is no need for crossover trajectories. The solution is also highly flexible and vertical lines allow for coating on both sides without unloading pieces. In the future, external doors could be just one of the many applications envisaged for iGiotto.

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