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30% Material Savings in Silo Coating: Oltrogge’s Electrostatic Application System at Awila Anlagenbau When coating large surface areas or particularly complex-shaped parts, it is often difficult to achieve even film thickness. This is especially true for large industrial structures such as silos for animal feed, grain, or biomass pellets. Long-established service provider Oltrogge GmbH & Co. KG (Bielefeld, Germany) has installed an electrostatic coating system at the premises of Awila Anlagenbau GmbH, which can now achieve uniform thicknesses on all components while reducing material consumption and saving costs. Tailor-made solutions for customer-specific requirements
designing and building structures of this kind and assembling them in 57
In many industrial sectors, there are raw, semi-finished, or end products
countries worldwide. Its core business includes small to large turnkey and,
that have to be transported, dosed, or stored in the form of powder or
on request, modular animal feed and grain handling systems, developed
bulk goods, including food and animal feed but also colour pigments,
for customers mainly operating in the animal feed, plastics, and food
pharmaceutical substances, cement, or coal. Silos of the appropriate size
industries. Depending on customer needs, as well as on regional
are ideal for storing these products. For more than one hundred years,
conditions and requirements, Awila can create both comprehensive
Awila Anlagenbau GmbH (Lastrup, Lower Saxony, Germany) has been
overall solutions and individual components.
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Awila builds silos, plants, and individual components for a wide range of industries. A special challenge for its staff lies in the coating of very large-sized structures.
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Traditionally, Awila had been using proven airless painting technology. During a product demonstration by long-established service provider Oltrogge, however, it got to know the electrostatic coating process.
