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Established more than 30 years ago, Italian company manufactures industrial cooling and compressed air & gas treatment machines, as well as air conditioning equipment. While maintaining strong links to its roots, MTA operates on a global scale as Barbara Rossi finds out from Marco Motton, Operations director, and Enrico Callegarin, Compressed Air Products and Process Cooling marketing manager.
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TA stands for ‘Macchine Trattamento Aria’ (literally ‘Air Treatment Machines’). The company was set up in the Padua area of northeastern Italy in 1982 by four partners, all of whom came from an air treatment background. MTA quickly launched its first product, an innovative thermal mass dryer, thanks to which it became renowned at global level. Another milestone was reached in 1989 when the company impressed the compressed air & gas treatment market with a new environmentally-friendly silica sand thermal mass dryer. Following this, thanks to the success of its own refrigeration air dryers (of which it still produces between 6000 and 7000 a year), in 1991 MTA entered the process cooling market with TAE, an industrial liquid chiller. TAE was equipped with a tank containing an innovative water heat exchanger, suitable for a wide range of applications. Since then, the company has developed different models of TAE, of which it currently supplies about 6000 units a year. 30 Industry Europe
Innovation is key Today MTA, with its 440 employees and 50 product lines, offers a comprehensive product range spread across three main areas: process cooling; compressed air & gas treatment; and air conditioning. The process cooling range, including water cooled chillers and water cooled heat pumps from 1 kW to 1900 kW, offers an extremely high level of product reliability. When it comes to compressed air & gas treatment products, what differentiates the company from competitors is the wide range of solutions on offer, product performance and energy saving. “We do not simply offer energy-saving dryers, like some of our competitors. We go a step further. Energy saving is part of our DNA, as proven by our refrigeration air dryers able to process from 0.3 to 760m3/min. Their energy saving features have gained widespread market recognition,” said Mr Motton.
