Progalvano, a leading company in the field of Galvanic Industry, develops, produces and sells plating barrels and accessories for the plating shops of the whole world. We have been operating in this market for over 50 years, using plastics and metals of high quality in order to satisfy a variety of customers’ needs.

Some galvanic treatments (a clear example could be Phospating process) require the construction of plating barrels produced with specific materials. Many barrels builders can offer solutions based only on two kinds of materials: plastic or Stainless Steel. On the contrary, Progalvano is able to offer other intermediate technical options, giving the chance to get the most suitable solution.

Our customers are guided by us in the choice of the perfect barrel according to the materials for production, the available budget, the customers’ needs in terms of output and other parameters such as:

The maximum process temperature

• The chemicals adopted
• The loading kilograms
• The drying typology

THE SOLUTIONS OFFERED BY PROGALVANO

With the aim of facing the variety of customers’ needs described above, beside the overall standard range of Polypropylene cylinders, Progalvano offers the following special executions:

1. Cylinders in Polypropylene with thicker panels (15-20mm), intermediate gears in PVDF and hubs in PVDF; designed for working at medium-high temperatures and heavy loads.
2. Cylinders in Polypropylene having flat bars in Stainless Steel AISI 316 inside the lids and inside the PP rods. This specific device prevents the barrels from deformation due to the quite high temperatures of operation (95-100°C); moreover it confers a solid and robust frame to the barrels and it allows the cylinders to load heavier lots of matrial.

3. Barrels in PVDF; for chemical processes particularly corrosive, where the usual Polypropylene is necessarily replaced by a very resistent material, that is the well known PVDF.
4. Barrels in Stainless Steel AISI 316 with closing clips in Titanium; they are specific for treatments having extremely high temperatures, such as Black-Oxide (140°C).

Thanks to these 4 proposals, Progalvano can find the most suitable plating solution for its customers. Moreover, in order to get an even higher level of efficiency and top levels of productivity, for everyone of these solutions it’s possible to match the optional of the automatic opening/closing lid throughout our ROBOT 3000.

The 4 solutions described above are appreciated by a number of customers worldwide and can be considered today as part of our product range. Progalvano is always interested in searching for innovative devices and technical solutions, in order to provide all plating shops with specific and custom-made products.

You could read also our article about the industrial sectors supplied by Progalvano

Progalvano, a wide range of plating barrels and accessories for plating plants

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During this difficult moment of isolation, Progalvano is trying to facing COVID-19 emergency keeping its operation as constant as possible. Indeed we are keeping on offering our experience for the Plating Shops all over the world.

Unfortunately, the present situation has temporarily slowed down our production of plating barrels for 3 weeks of stops, however our corporate organization has been able to adapt with flexibility to the new needs of work. In particular, the whole team is working with a higher level of autonomy, trying to perceive the situation as a good opportunity of professional growth.

Our office employees working from home!

Our office team is working from home as many other people in the world, and they operate in good bond and connection. We could say that, in the last months, our Sales Department has never stopped offering Progalvano plating barrels, for a variety of plating treatments. With any doubt, our Sales Team kept on elaborating purchase orders as well, since we have never stopped receiving orders for supplies, machines, spare parts from Asia to America, from Africa to Europe and of course also Italy.

Progalvano is able to keep on operating thanks to the supports of its distributors, agents, and official representatives. For instance, our agent from one side and our Sales Representative for North America on the other, (Mr. Fabrizio Schira fs@platingbarrels.com )are continuing to promote Progalvano products to old and new potential customers offering plating solutions.

Our Technical department

Progalvano technical department has been a precious resource for supporting both sales and production. They have been able to go on projecting by home our cylinders, plating barrels, special accessories. Their activity has been crucial for carrying on the projects of the orders received during these difficult months, even when the company have been closed. All this allowed us to prepare the manufacturing steps, to schedule production, and to avoid losing time.

Purchase Department, Marketing activity, Administration

Just like the other roles, Progalvano purchase department is working for supporting the provision of materials, semi-finished products and others parts that are necessary for the manufacture of our plating barrels.

For sure, our financial department, the whole Management and our Marketing office have worked continuously and in a proactive manner. They have been following the markets’ trends, the legal news coming from the Government, the Worldwide health situation, and the new opportunities and paths for the future. All this will result strategic for going on working properly in the next months, just like we did so far.

How will be the near future?

Progalvano will keep on producing the orders received and promoting its barrels and brand, participating as exhibitors to some important international events. In particular, in Autumn we will take part in 3 exhibitions in Stuttgart, Moscow and Barcelona.

After having reopened our production department some days ago, we now can’t wait to see our colleagues again and the first challenge will be to make up for the lost time and speed up production for deliverying soon our products to our customers.

Read some more about the events in which we participated.

Sur/Fin 2019 – Rosemont – Chicago IL , USA

SUR/FIN (Surface Finishing USA) is the main exhibition organized and promoted by NASF (National Association for Surface Finishing). This event is held every year in a different venue among Atlanta, Rosemont, Las Vegas and Cleveland; and it is addressed to the American surface finishing industry, a field that represenst a turnover of 28 Billions Dollars. SUR/FIN is the place where the main players of the sector can gather, and this year a number of 180 exhibitors took part in the event, presenting innovative products and technologies for the surface finishing field. Thanks to the high turnout of companies coming from several areas of the world, SUR/FIN is getting more and more strategical for understanding the demand of the market and how this can evolve in the future.

Our partticipation @ SUR/FIN 2019

Dr. Francesca Cuzzolin (Sales & Marketing Manager), Eng. Matteo Cuzzolin (Technical Manager) and Eng. Fabrizio Schira (Sales Representative for US adn Canada) attended the exhibition on behalf of Progalvano. In fact, in the last two years we focused and invested with a significant effort in the American market, by leaning on our local representative set in Buffalo, NY. All these efforts are bringing good results and Eng. Schira has turned into the acknowledged reference for Progalvano in the US.

In details, the products the Progalvano showed during SUR/FIN 2019 were:

• a “ROTOR EXPORT 2000”, the most sold and well-known barrel model of our range. This plating barrel can offer very good performances in terms of technology, reliability, efficiency, quality and pricing.
• A “PORTABLE MINIROTOR DC” with extractable panels; a small barrel designd for producing minimum lots and samplings.
• Overall spare parts, especially for the tanks of our rotors – discover the complete range of Progalvano plating equipment.

Our machines summoned the attention of visitors coming from a variety of countries, in particular plating shops from Michigan, Illinois and even Mexico. This has been an opportunity to make agreements with new potential distributors and to strengthen the existing relationship with our customers.

At SUR/FIN, Progalvano played as a leading company in the field of plating barrels and plating accessories, a firm that exports its products all over the world since 50 years.

Progalvano: a symbol of italian innovation

We can definitely say that at SUR/FIN 2019 Progalvano has shown its potentialities and the very typical “Made in Italy” way of producing: the long-time expertise, the continuous research for the best industrial processes and the development of customized projects in the electrochemical plating field, allows us to operate globally.

Moreover, the importance of the quality of the raw materials used for production (PVDF, PP, PE and many more) achieved a huge success.

These are the points of strength that make us possible to anticipate the market’s needs, developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art machines that can suits the requirements of all customers.

See you @Surfin 2020 in Atlanta!

The evaluation of the last edition of SUR/FIN has been extremely positive: we found out new customers and quoted a number of projects. Our participation has been crucial for increasing our visibility and improving our brand image, that’s why Progalvano is already working on its attendance for the 2020 edition that will take place in Atlanta from the 15th to the 17th of June 2020 at the World Congress Center of Atlanta, Georgia.

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PROGALVANO EXHIBITOR AT SURFACE FINISHING MEXICO 2019

We will be pleased to welcome you on 14 and 15 March, at our stand no. 809 at the CINTERMEX Exhibition Centre, in Monterrey – Mexico.

VISIT THE WEBSITE: www.surfacefinishingmexico.com