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The effectiveness of sodium bicarbonate cleaning for the perfect removal of chips and neat vegetable oil from precision metal parts MMP Torneria produces about 50 million turned components per year. In 2020, despite the difficulties due to the pandemic, it implemented a project to revamp its facility and thus improve the traceability of its processes, provide high quality products, and reduce its environmental impact. Thanks to a partnership with STS Italy, specialising in tailor-made cleaning solutions, it made its cleaning department healthier and safer, while increasing productivity and optimising results.
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warf is one of the most critical
from producing almost exclusively small
elements resulting from metal-
metal parts for major national distributors
removal machining processes, such as
to manufacturing turned components
turning. With this technique, lathes transmit
directly for leading manufacturers in the
rotary motion to mechanical components,
European hydraulics and automotive
the speed of which is determined by the
sectors, particularly in Germany. Thanks to
hardness of their material and the required
this evolution of our core business, we have
precision degree. The function of the cutting
been able to grow and establish ourselves
tool is to remove the machining allowance,
in a highly competitive market. However,
which results in the formation of chips. A
we have also started facing increasingly
few measures can be implemented, such
stringent specifications for the cleaning
as placing a wedge-edged plate between
quality of our components and, at the
the insert and the clamping bracket, which
same time, feeling the need to adapt our
bends the chips and, finally, breaks and
operations to the numerous environmental
removes them as the bending forces
requirements that are becoming
increase. However, some residues may
increasingly important in the manufacturing
remain on the surface of the machined
industry. We therefore decided to replace
metal parts and these can decisively
the two solvent plants we had been using
affect any subsequent production steps.
since 2010 with a new machine from the
Therefore, the search for cleaning solutions
Aquaroll series, designed and supplied by
to eliminate swarf and machining oil is
STS Italy (Ravenna).”
one of the most frequent items in the investment plans of turning companies.
The factory’s “green” revamping
MMP Torneria (San Lorenzo in Campo,
The choice of the new cleaning plant, which
Pesaro Urbino, Italy) specialises in the
went into operation in December 2020,
turning of small metal parts. It was born
was only a part of a factory modernisation
eleven years ago from a long-standing
plan that included the integration of new
local firm in the sector, and it found its
machining systems and the construction of
“soul” in Attilio Rotatori, now its CEO. “Over
a new, high-performance optical metrology
a few years,” he confirms, “we have gone
laboratory. “Competition is high in our area,”
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Components turned by MMP Torneria. I componenti torniti da MMP Torneria.
