Cannon do Brasil, Success in Russia and CSI,
the South American challenge where energy counts
Cannon opened their new Brasilian branch: Cannon The two technical seminars held by Cannon on Automotive It 's a well-known fact: Russian industries consume on between the two heads. The mixing heads for closed mould The plant – delivered in the first quarter of 2008 – is in full
do Brasil – a registered representative office fully- average significantly more energy per unit of production as injection are mounted onto overhead rails to reach a number of production and allows Lissant to face the rising demand for and Rigid Foams Technologies were a good occasion to get compared to their Western equals. injection holes properly positioned in the whole length of each these energy-efficient elements, much demanded by the Russian
owned by the Cannon Group – is active since 2008 an update on the latest developments provided by the A high degree of 'energy intensity' can pose a threat to panel. Profiling machines for the metal facings and equipment and neighbouring market. Cannon have provided reasonable
with offices in Santana, near Sao Paulo's international world's leading manufacturer of Polyurethane equipment. growth prospects of Russian companies, especially when for unwinding and cutting of reinforced fiber glass facing are an solutions to all the customer's requirements, confirming their
airport. energy prices – which have historically been well below the integral part of the Cannon supply. advantages over other bidders – not due to the lowest price, as
An experienced staff provides to the numerous world prices and which are now set to become liberalized the prices submitted by other bidders were lower, but with regard Guido Pelizzari, GM of Cannon do Brasil (center) was very busy attending by 2011 in Russia – are rapidly rising. Timely investments in Built by Cannon Afros (the metering and mixing equipment) and to such selection criteria as structural, engineering and
Brasilian clients commercial assistance for all the visitors at last year's FeiPUR fair in São Paulo. energy efficiency will prevent energy costs from eroding Manni (the polymerisation presses and all handling devices) these performance characteristics, operation and maintenance warranty.
products manufactured by the various Group's companies' profit margins and will help companies plants have been installed under the supervision of the technical
Companies and technical service for Polyurethanes. maintain their competitive edge. staff of Cannon Eurasia, which covers an area spanning over 8 Cold storage at home, in shops and restaurants
The decision stems from the need to consolidate the time zones with a guarantee of service intervention in 8-24 Repeating and new orders came to Cannon Eurasia during 2008 Energy efficiency investments are also becoming increasingly hours according with the location of their client. from the leading and the emerging manufacturers of refrigerators
Group's presence in South America, a traditional profitable as energy prices continue to rise. High energy in the CSI. The replacement of ancient blowing agents with
stronghold for Cannon. consumption and inefficiency may become a bottleneck for Continuous production for a panel-hungry building hydrocarbons – mostly Pentanes – brings new technical
Fully-booked room for the two technological seminars given by Cannon at future capacity and production growth, as industries are faced industry requirements that can be easily solved when the supplier has
FeiPUR fair in São Paulo, in November 2008. The leading Brasilian manufacturers of domestic and with high charges for new connections to the power distribution Repeating orders from Lissant, the St. Petersburg-based grown worldwide experience in the field, with hundreds of new
system and strict limits on energy consumption. Investments into commercial refrigerators, automobiles, insulating panels for manufacturers of insulated panels for building walls and roofs: and retrofitted plants in operation. This is the reason that Cannon do Brasil is a technological partner that brings the
efficient equipment and processes often bring along positive they have confirmed their trust in Cannon by ordering a second convinced Interteknika of Donelsk, Ukraina and Frigorex of building industry, furniture and technical articles have been
support and the international experience of a leader to the “side effects,” improved product quality and productivity, not continuous foaming plant equipped with the whole set of tools Orel, Russia, to select Cannon as their supplier for their new
using for various decades Cannon equipment for their domestic Companies and that supports – with the highest forgetting a higher appeal towards foreign investors looking for for metal profiling, panel cutting, stacking and packing. foaming plants for commercial refrigerators. Also the Finnish
Polyurethane, Thermoforming and Aluminium Diecasting efficient Russian partners to do business with.quality standards applied in the western countries – those manufacturer Helkama made the same decision for the new equipment of their new factory near St. Petersburg, recently.
technologies. Cannon have been present in Brasil for many international Groups which decided to invest in a brasilian The second continuous foaming plant for sandwich panels supplied to Lissant in Most of the inefficiencies so common throughout the Russian Extension of an existing foaming plant took place in 2008 at
years through local Agents, providing service and spare St. Petersburg, Russia.manufacturing unit. industry were inherited from the Soviet times, when energy was Pozis in Zelenodolsk, at Sepo in Saratov, both in the European
parts with local technical staff. A Cannon office is always near you, wherever you cheap and constructions were designed with little consideration part of Russia and Ormez in Orsk in Russia near the border of
towards a rational use of energy. These inefficient buildings are decide to go: call Cannon! Kazakhistan.
still in use: at least one third of them are more than 20-25 years The latest versions of Cannon FPL mixing heads – specifically The need to ensure continuing presence in this growing (www.cannondobrasil.com)
old. This explains why most Russian companies are far below designed for refrigerator applications – proved to be the solution market has convinced the Group's management to open a
international benchmarks for energy consumption levels. High- for these applications where, now more than in the past, great
direct office – a fully-owned Cannon Location – in Brasil. energy intensity and inefficiency reverberates negatively through importance is assigned to optimum filling of the cabinet at the
Cannon do Brasil Represantaçoes Ltda. is managed by the whole Russian economy. theoretical set foam density, without wasting material to
Guido Pelizzari, a Brasilian resident of Italian origin with a “overpack” the cavity with an excess of formulation. These very good arguments lead many industry managers to look Another example of savings, this time in favour of the fridge
long experience in the plastics processing industry. for more energy efficiency, new equipment, less waste of manufacturer, that helps in containing the cost of these
An experienced sales and technical team provides service precious heath – even in a gas-rich country that could treat this appliances and keeps Energy-saving investments at the right level
and assistance for the whole range of Cannon products, as a secondary source of concern. This efficiency translates into for the end user. a rising demand for insulated buildings, which finds in a few
including Polyurethanes, composite materials, centimetres of Polyurethane rigid foam the best answer to their Cannon Eurasia welcomes the inquiries of other Russian
thermoforming, aluminium diecasting. needs. Energy-efficient more than any other competing media, and CSI-based innovative companies that have understood
easy to apply and shape, long lasting and characterised by good that investing in energy efficiency will prevent energy costs
Cannon do Brasil at Feipur 2008 structural properties, a Polyurethane-insulated sandwich panel for from eroding profit margins and will help them maintain construction or for refrigerator applications is a best seller in
their competitive edge. (www.cannon.ru) Cannon do Brasil was present at the 2008 edition of Feipur, today's Russia.
the brasilian show dedicated to the Polyurethane
technology. Held in the exhibition complex of Expo Center Cannon Eurasia – the Russian Cannon Company based in Moscow which follows all the business lines of the Group –
Norte, in São Paulo, the show was run together with Feiplar have supplied in the past two-three years a significant number of
Composites 2008 on November 11-13. This combined complete plants to fulfil this requirement. Thermal insulation has Water treatment for District Heating
exhibition – featuring also a comprehensive program of become the most important area of business, surpassing the
technical presentations – attracted nearly 13,000 visitors. traditional applications in Automotive and Domestic Refrigerators – which suffer here as it does everywhere else in
The traditional Cannon customers, from the largest When a District Heating (DH) system provides network, usually around 50-60 °C – an evident waste. the world – in their sales statistics. heat and warm water to thousands of households Vacuum-based degassers, instead, work at the current
corporations of the refrigerator and automotive fields to in a cold country, its efficiency must be total and temperature of the water, while oxygen transfer to the
the medium-small manufacturers of panels, furniture and Discontinuous foaming for custom-designed trucks guaranteed. If the heat transfer media is hot water, gas phase is enhanced by reducing its partial pressure
technical parts, expressed their satisfaction for the decision Several discontinuous panel plants have been supplied to Russian,
Ukrainian Kirghizian and Siberian companies, for buildings and special attentions must be paid to its chemical and under vacuum conditions.taken by Cannon to establish a direct presence in Brasil.
for refrigerated cells: demand is high especially to ensure the physical conditioning, otherwise it will soon be a A common practice for BONO ARTES, these vacuum
“cold chain” to the transportation and storage of foodstuff, a source of real troubles: dissolved gas, alkaline deaerators are successfully used also in degassing A mixed allocation of the fair's booths – with composites
precaution which is taking place more and more in these wide salts, bacteria can kill pipelines and tanks before injection water to enhance crude oil production and in
and Polyurethane technologies shown side by side and not countries. the system reaches the “drinking age”! all cases where water should not be boiled before the
in dedicated areas – generated an interesting “blood industrial use.
transfusion” : visitors usually interested only in one of the BONO ARTES, the Cannon Group's Company (www.bono.it)
processes could easily see, learn and discuss the advantages specialising in water treatment plants, have developed
of the other one while crossing the various areas of the Innovative Vacuum-degassers are proposed by Cannon BONO Artes for and successfully installed numerous complete plants efficient water treatment in District Heating distribution networks.
show. This allowed Cannon do Brasil to meet a number of destined to keep these fluids within a strict tolerance as
new potential customers interested in one of the Group's far as chemical, physical and biologic parameters are
plastics technologies, opening several new relationships. concerned. Various technologies are used for both the
primary circuit – where the hottest water is kept in A complete set of decoration panels for Mercedes Benz truck interiors is
closed recirculation till the heat exchanger – and the manufactured in Brasil by Simoldes with Cannon StratoTec technology, using
Polyols 100% derived from vegetable sources. distribution network, where water circulates at a milder
temperature for chilometers.
BONO ARTES can supply basic dosing equipment for
Innovative Cannon foaming plants for insulated trucks are becoming very the addition of anti-scaling agents, biocides and
familiar among Russian panel manufacturers. corrosion inhibitors, up to the ion exchange systems
Insulated trucks – long up to 16 m – are made with used to soften the salt-rich waters.
Polyurethane-insulated panels faced with metal/metal and
metal/glassfiber linings. These CSI-based companies equip their One aspect that is thrilling BONO ARTES in this
factories with polymerisation presses able to produce several
models in the same cavity. Panels for the sides, top and bottom moment is the possibility to de-gas the refilling water -
of the trailer are made in sequence in medium-small lots and in particular for the secondary circuits – utilising
stored until the assembly operation requires them. By doing so vacuum technology instead of steam, as it is usually
these manufacturers can save factory space and capital done in conventional deaerators.
investment, still being able to follow the demand of their clients.
A high degree of personalisation is therefore possible, with The major advantage is a substantial saving in energy,
increasing satisfaction of their customers. Automatisation around
these presses can be quite sophisticated, with multiple mixing since the steam-based system implies that, during the
heads for open and closed mould pouring – connected to one de-gassing operation, water must be first boiled and
or two high-output metering machine – The mixing heads for later cooled to the operating temperature of the
open mould pouring are fitted onto head holders and the
contemporary injection of two heads assure a very good
distribution of the foam thanks to the pouring pipe distributor
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