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Ruukki to Add Surface Treatment Line at Holic Unit in Slovakia
03/24/2011 - Ruukki has announced plans to invest in a new surface treatment line to serve cabin customers at its Holic unit in Slovakia.
Ruukki has announced plans to invest in a new surface treatment line to serve cabin customers at the Holic unit in Slovakia.
Ruukki’s Holic unit manufactures ready-to-assemble cabins for mobile machines such as reach-stackers and forklifts for its globally-operating OEM customers.
"The investment will enable us to surface treat cabin frames at the Holic cabin plant," said Erik Skogström, Senior Vice President, Operations, at Ruukki Engineering.
“This, in turn, will cut logistics costs considerably and facilitate quality control in the surface treatment process,” added Skogström. “The new surface treatment facility will be able to handle welded frames and other cabin components.”
On the line, the cabin frames will be zinc-phosphated and electrophoretically primed before powder painting. The line meets the high quality and environmental criteria of the automotive industry and original equipment manufacturers. Ruukki has used a similar coating process at the Kurikka cabin plant in Finland since 2006.
The coating line at Holic will come on stream in spring 2012. The investment is worth about EUR 3 million.
