Italprensas Sandretto reconverted machines for Eastern Europe

Convert a machine is to leave it "as new", and it was when it first went on the market, adding all those improvements and updates that have occurred so far in the technical field and security. Thus understand it Italprensas Sandretto, which has a 4,500 square meters plant dedicated almost entirely to this segment of the market. This plant works with companies from all over Europe, purchase in Germany, France, Italy and United Kingdom, and sold on the peninsula, Africa, and Latin America. Now the business grows, and Italprensas Sandretto has begun to introduce the Sette series and Mega models in the countries of Eastern Europe.

The conversion of machinery for plastics is a business prosperous for Italprensas Sandretto, as sales range between 30 and 60 machines a year (an average of four per month), although in reality, the main business of the firm is selling the new equipment which the House mother Sandretto factory in Italy. The conversion is, in this case, a service more is offered to the client.

However, it is important enough to devote a plant with ten employees and 4,500 square meters in Sant Celoni, a town in the sierra de well communicated with Barcelona Montseny. In addition to convert used machinery, the plant is also responsible for adapting new and standard machinery that sends the Sandretto in Italy central to specific needs of customers.

According to the technical director, José coffers Ontiveros, from this same plant sold converted machinery - basically the trademark Sandretto injectors - Latin America Africa and, of course, to the peninsula. "In addition - adds - have started sales in the markets of the East". The business is from Spain because, Italprensas Sandretto has the exclusivity for the reconstruction of the Sette and Mega Sandretto series since the Italian plant ceased production of these models in series, and supported by the good acceptance of these models in Spain.

Somehow, Italprensas Sandretto redistributes machinery throughout the world, carrying machinery rebuilt for example, to countries where the machinery park is even older and may not need the benefits of a fuel transfer newly out of factory. Currently, for instance, are coming many machines of the United Kingdom, France and Italy. At the other extreme, they also convert machines at the request of the company. Arcas tells us in this respect an example of a Spanish firm, which has moved part of its production and the machinery necessary to carry it out to another country and before it is sent it made her go through their workshops to rebuild it and update it.

Arcas explains that, unlike what happens with other sectors, the converted machinery market is very stable, "are not too noticeable times of crisis", points out. It is also very faithful: in general represents 10 percent of the customers of Sandretto. Another advantage of the conversion is that does not enter in competition with the new equipment that, according to Treasury, using first or second hand machinery "is determined by the type of piece to manufacture". According to this, the converted machinery has its space on the sectors where there is a need for adaptability to the latest technologies in issues of production, processing or peripherals as it can happen, for example, in the automotive sector that suffers a constant evolution that requires to have a park of machines ready to adapt to constant changes.

The vast majority of the machinery that convert, 80 percent, is again the market to resell, and the remaining 20 per cent returns again to the original owner.

In Spain Park of the plastic injection presses has changed a lot. "It makes three or four years there was a great cleaning and renewed much machinery", adds coffers, but what is new or old, admissible or inadmissible is based on the piece you want to make and an "old" fuel transfer to the motor vehicle sector may be acceptable to other sectors. Machines for automotive parts, for example, typically last between five or six years, while others make them last for up to 15 years.

The conversion process starts with the arrival of machines in the plant of Sant Celoni. They come mostly Sandretto, customers want to renew its fleet of machinery and thus get rid of the old machines, either or want to convert it, representing 10 per cent of the cases.

Italprensas Sandretto is dedicated - for technical reasons and guarantee - to convert only own machinery. They work with machines up to 1,800 tonnes, although most commonly ranges from 190 to 650 tons. Seniority is not decisive for turning a machine: the years "weigh" more based on electronics which possesses the model or the dimensional design of the fuel transfer. In other words, it may be that an old machine is not adapted to new forms of industrial production.

Whatever the case, Italprensas Sandretto philosophy is to let the machine "as new", following the technical specifications of the original model, except for the components of steel of great volume and mass the rest of the components are all new, which can be explained: Part of the know-how that is fundamentally expensive is the foundry and treatment of steel and more at the moment in Spain. Another interesting peculiarity of the firm is its system of sale. Italprensas charges for rates depending on the model and tonnage of the machine and not his State, with the renewal process, the machine is "as new" at more competitive prices.

After the reception, the machine is removed whole and proceeds to cleaning and verification of all its components. The hardest elements tend to be the closure and the spindle of the machine, whose malfunction basically affects the finish of the piece.

If we need to mechanize some component, takes the piece an external workshop, this part is subcontracted. However, the hydraulic part, electric and pneumatic is responsible for the company. Once replaced the defective components, the machine is painted and mounted. Finally becomes a second verification and passes a control of quality.

The converted machines have a guarantee of six months, since "in vital parts - has coffers - the machine out of here as new." In addition, the machines reconverted by the company have a double guarantee, that of six months for parts and the incorporate the CE marking, by a process in collaboration with AENOR, where in its official Central Laboratory of Electrotechnics, were all tests required by the standard", although there is no demand on the market of second-hand machinery".