News Trade Shows Country profiles Companies profiles www.manufacturing-journal.netVolume 2/14 - 2019 . €5The future of prefabricated constructionpage 25PRELUDE | Being always ahead of the technological evolution, updating the offer to the current standards and customers’ needs and understanding the importance of export which always leads to supplying all the main geographical areas of the world – that is how Doc. Riccardo Comerio, Chief Executive of Comerio Ercole Spa, describes undoubted success of the company ... Full interiew on page 9.An important manufacturer of prefabricated bathrooms for the Danish market, is opening additional factories as it establishes itself in more European countries. Ready Bathroom was founded by Łukasz Załucki and Jan Grivalský as a company manufacturing bathrooms for the Danish market, initially at a small capacity of one thousand units per year. Denmark has for many years now been one of the world’s leader in implementing prefabricated construction, for example in student and senior housing projects and hotels. The 9000m2 manufacturing plant in Legnica, in south west of Poland, was established in ... Read full story on page 25.It was year 1974 in Capo d’Orlando (Messina, Sicily) when Rosario Giuffrè together with his brother Cono and his sonCarmelo founded Siplast - the company producing PVC roller blinds. It started with only 18 employees and a lot has changed since then. Giulia Giuffrè, Irritec GroupMarketing Director, is guiding us through the history, challenges that Irritec has been facing though the years and the pride of having customers loyalty ... Read their success story on page 38.With more than 30 years of experience the company is ranked among the world’s top five companies in its business. We are talking about Frulact - an innovative group in the supply of added value ingredients for the food & beverage industry, with a global presence across three continents and nine business units in five countries. In an interview, given to the Manufactur-ing Journal by the CEO of the company- João Miranda, we had the opportunity to learn more about the secret of Frulact’s success and popularity ... Full report on page 43.Enjoy the magazine! Editor: Dear Readers!We invite you to subscribe a digital version of Manufacturing Journal magazine free of charge. Filling out a short form you will regularly receive to your e-mail box our latest magazine.More info: www.manufacturing-journal.netManufacturing-Journal | 1 || 2 | Manufacturing-Journal CONTENTS | EditorPatryk T. ZborowskiProfile WritersAndrzej KaczmarczykAnna Wąsowicz-SenneKatarzyna UlmaMadina TuravaArt DirectorWojciech KosmowskiProject ManagersIzilina CaloloKatarzyna AdamczykAdministrationWioletta Adamczykul. Romanowicza 17/1530-702 CracowPolande-mail: info@manufacturing-journal.net advertising: pz@manufacturing-journal.netphone number: 0048 12 4446550fax number: 0048 12 4446894web: www.z-media.plwww.manufacturing-journal.net© Manufacturing Journal 2019No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form for any purpose, other than short sections for the purpose of review, without prior consent of the publisher. page 15 page 30 page 51 page 22 page 38BAUSANO & FIGLI SPAZPUH JK Miłosz KiedrowskiMAY LLCFERRARO GROUP S.P.A.Irritec S.p.A.PARTNERS:Manufacturing-Journal | 3 |12469151822253033384348515558Articles:BAUSANO & FIGLI SPAComerio Ercole SpaF. lli Menabò Srl.FERRARO GROUP S.P.A.Finlogic Spa Frulact GroupIrritec S.p.A.JSC “KONTI-RUS”MAY LLCP.U.I. Rialex Sp. z o.o.Ready Bathroom Sp. z o.o.Undorovsky mineral water plant “Volzhanka”ZPUH JK Miłosz KiedrowskiIndex:1595822184338485133255530Advertising:battenfeld-cincinnati Germany GmbHBell Flavors & Fragrances GmbHCasasco & Nardi S.p.A.Chr. Hansen S.L.FLENDER GmbH Sp. z o.o. Oddział w PolsceGislotica LdaLamex Food Group LimitedLissau A/SMarmorline & Co. A/SMGM GLASSOMG EVENTS MANAGEMENT CO LTDP.H.U „TEAK” Zbigniew AniśkiewiczPSL SRL SHIPPING & LOGISTICSP.U.I. Rialex Sp. z o.o.Quadrum Foods Sp. z o.o.X-Compound GmbH39461346361146282828cov.2839cov.4613PreludeContentsCountry profile NewsComerio Ercole SpaThe synonym of quality and technology since 1885BAUSANO & FIGLI SPAGlobal extrusion line market leader made in ItalyFinlogic Spa‘Made in Italy’ leader in labelling and barcode solutions FERRARO GROUP S.P.A.One unique group, many professionalsReady Bathroom Sp. z o.o.With their modular bathrooms, Ready Bathroom has build a business on saving their customers time and expensesZPUH JK Miłosz KiedrowskiPoland’s leading waste container manufacturer and exporterP.U.I. Rialex Sp. z o.o.Once a small, local business, Rialex is now a company with worldwide tiesIrritec S.p.A.Don’t wait for the rain, use drip irrigation insteadFrulact GroupA top-ranked innovative group specialized in the supply of added value ingredients for the food & beverage industryJSC “KONTI-RUS”One of the largest confectionery manufacturersMAY LLCInnovative company with a strong entrepreneurial cultureUndorovsky mineral water plant “Volzhanka”The energy of water is the energy of lifeF. lli Menabò Srl.Quality ‘Made in Italy’ label it is the company’s biggest prideCONTENTS | | 4 | Manufacturing-Journal IntroductionTwo centuries of Viking raids into Euro-pe tapered off following the adoption of Christianity by King Olav TRYGGVASON in 994; conversion of the Norwegian kingdom occurred over the next several decades. In 1397, Norway was absorbed into a union with Denmark that lasted more than four centuries. In 1814, Nor-wegians resisted the cession of their country to Sweden and adopted a new constitution. Sweden then invaded Nor-way but agreed to let Norway keep its constitution in return for accepting the union under a Swedish king. Rising na-tionalism throughout the 19th century led to a 1905 referendum granting Nor-way independence. Although Norway remained neutral in World War I, it suffe-red heavy losses to its shipping. Norway proclaimed its neutrality at the outset of World War II, but was nonetheless oc-cupied for five years by Nazi Germany (1940-45). In 1949, Norway abandoned neutrality and became a member of NATO. Discovery of oil and gas in adja-cent waters in the late 1960s boosted Norway’s economic fortunes. In referen-da held in 1972 and 1994, Norway rejec-ted joining the EU. Key domestic issues include immigration and integration of ethnic minorities, maintaining the coun-try’s extensive social safety net with an aging population, and preserving eco-nomic competitiveness.EconomyNorway has a stable economy with a vi-brant private sector, a large state sector, Oslo, Capital city of NorwayNorwayCOUNTRY PROFILE | Manufacturing-Journal | 5 |and an extensive social safety net. Nor-way opted out of the EU during a refe-rendum in November 1994. However, as a member of the European Economic Area, Norway partially participates in the EU’s single market and contributes sizably to the EU budget. The country is richly endowed with natural resour-ces such as oil and gas, fish, forests, and minerals. Norway is a leading producer and the world’s second largest exporter of seafood, after China. The government manages the country’s petroleum reso-urces through extensive regulation. The petroleum sector provides about 9% of jobs, 12% of GDP, 13% of the state’s re-venue, and 37% of exports, according to official national estimates. Norway is one of the world’s leading petroleum exporters, although oil production is close to 50% below its peak in 2000. Gas production, conversely, has more than doubled since 2000. Although oil pro-duction is historically low, it rose in 2016 for the third consecutive year due to the higher production of existing oil fields and to new fields coming on stream. Norway’s domestic electricity produc-tion relies almost entirely on hydropo-wer. In anticipation of eventual declines in oil and gas production, Norway saves state revenue from petroleum sector ac-tivities in the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, valued at over $1 trillion at the end of 2017. To help balance the fe-deral budget each year, the government follows a „fiscal rule,” which states that spending of revenues from petroleum and fund investments shall correspond to the expected real rate of return on the fund, an amount it estimates is susta-inable over time. In February 2017, the government revised the expected rate of return for the fund downward from 4% to 3%. After solid GDP growth in the 2004-07 period, the economy slowed in 2008, and contracted in 2009, before re-turning to modest, positive growth from 2010 to 2017. The Norwegian economy has been adjusting to lower energy pri-ces, as demonstrated by growth in labor force participation and employment in 2017. GDP growth was about 1.5% in 2017, driven largely by domestic de-mand, which has been boosted by the rebound in the labor market and sup-portive fiscal policies. Economic growth is expected to remain constant or impro-ve slightly in the next few years.MediaPrivate TV and radio outlets compete with public NRK for listeners and vie-wers. TV 2 Group is Norway’s biggest privately-owned media company and it operates the top commercial TV ne-twork.Schibsted, the publisher of Aften-posten and mass circulation VG, is one of Scandinavia’s leading press groups. Telenor is a leading Nordic broadband, telecoms and TV provider. Norwegians are among the world’s most avid new-spaper readers. Most of the press is pri-vately-owned and openly partisan. Re-porters Without Borders ranked Norway in first place in its 2018 World Press Fre-edom Index. It said the media are free and journalists do not face censorship or political pressure. By December 2017, more than 5.3 million Norwegians were online - just over 99% of the population (InternetWorldStats). Facebook has by far the biggest share of social media traffic.The Royal Palace in OsloThe tallest vertical rock face in Europe| 6 | Manufacturing-Journal Bucket manufacturer Lennéers chooses Hardox wear plate from SSAB for increased wear resistance and reduced weightSwedish bucket manufacturer Lennéers uses Hardox wear plate from SSAB in all its products. Hardox abrasion-resistant steel enables Lennéers to deliver top-quality construction and agricultural equipment that is strong, light, and long lasting. Founded in 2015, Lennéers is a Swed-ish producer of construction equipment and, more specifically, buckets, for use in construction projects. While Hardox wear plate from SSAB is used in all Len-néers’ buckets, some 80 percent of its products also carry the Hardox In My Body certification.When a product is branded with Hardox In My Body, this certifies that it is made from Hardox wear plate and will there-fore deliver unsurpassed wear resistance and impact strength, saving time and money down the road. Lennéers manu-factures a total of 31 different Hardox In My Body-branded excavator, VA, sorting, cable and planning buckets.“Our customers demand equipment that will stand the test of time,” says Lennéers’ founder and managing director, Dennis Lennéer. “They also want it to weigh less to optimize fuel efficiency.” When prod-ucts are exposed to tough conditions in the field, it is crucial that they are made from the best material. Lennéer believes Hardox wear plate from SSAB makes sense for customers from the point of view of both quality and cost.“A cheap product often doesn’t end up being cheaper down the line,” he says. “With this material we can guarantee that our products will last longer than competitor products that aren’t made from Hardox.”Habib Asgari has been working as a welder at Lennéers for about a year. He is responsible for welding and assem-bling the buckets. “Hardox is different to other materials because it’s so easy to weld. From a production perspective it’s a good material to work with,” he says.So far, the market has been positive to Lennéers’ products and business is good. Dennis Lennéer says the main success factors are his company’s abil-ity to listen to customers and respond to their demands, along with the strength of the Hardox brand. “The customers didn’t choose us at first. It wasn’t until we implemented Hardox that business started booming. I would go so far and say that the sales have increased with 200-300 percent,” he ad-mits.“Working with SSAB is a no-brainer,” he continues. “Partly because it’s what our customers want but also due to the product development support we re-ceive from SSAB. This helps us select the right material and design the best pos-sible products for the future.”More info: www.ssab.comAn early diagnosis for the crane under a microscope: A deep look into the crane machinery at Germany’s Palm paper factoryKonecranes investigates the hoisting gears of the critical overhead cranes at the Palm paper factory, with Oil Analysis and Crane Reliability Study (CRS). Churn-ing out corrugated base paper: The pa-per machine 6 (PM6) at the Palm paper factory in Wörth am Rhein, Germany, annually produces some 650,000 tons of the versatile packaging raw material with surface weights of up to 160 g/m2. In order to safely transport these huge paper rolls day and night, the double-girder bridge cranes inside the factory must always function flawlessly. For this reason, Konecranes has closely ana-lyzed the gear oil of the cranes and used the endoscope to look deep inside the gears. Paper remains one of the most important resources for the economy: According to the association of Ger-man paper factories, the paper indus-try sold approximately 23 million tons of paper, cardboard and paperboard in 2017 – up 1.4 percent from 2016. The packaging industry is especially hungry for paper. Sales in this sector increased by 3.4 percent last year alone. This is the area of operation for the paper ma-chine 6 (PM6) at the Palm paper factory in Wörth am Rhein. The 650,000 tons of corrugated base paper it produces each year is handled at various stages by eleven double girder overhead cranes, all playing their own crucial role in the paper production on PM6. In order to safely transport these large paper rolls day and night, the hoisting gears of the eleven cranes inside the factory must always be in top operating condition. For this reason, Palm has asked Konec-ranes to look at eight of its most critical cranes. Following the results of the oil analysis and subsequent endoscopic investigation, the maintenance experts identified a significant risk to future pro-duction and replaced one of the hoist-ing gears completely. Record paper ma-NEWS | Manufacturing-Journal | 7 |Swedish IT company AVTECH has devel-oped a very precise weather and wind data product portfolio to help aircrafts fly as economically and comfortably as possible – without the airlines hav-ing to invest in any new equipment. In a recent real-life test, Norwegian Air Shuttle reduced CO2-emissions by 2 000 tons in three months’ time last au-tumn, by using AVTECH’s services in the company’s fleet of 106 Boeing 737-800 aircrafts. “We saved from one to eighty kilograms of fuel per flight, the average being 22 kilos, purely by optimizing the descent phase of the flights”, says Nor-wegian pilot and project manager Stig Patey. “The 10K weather grid makes it possible to avoid unfavourable winds at given altitudes during the flight and to start the descent phase at exactly the right moment. Our pilots have report-edly been very pleased with the easy to use service that in real life proved to be much more accurate than the standard weather systems.” All of this was made without any new equipment in the air-crafts, as all real-time calculations are made on the ground by AVTECH. “The timeliness and accuracy of our high-definition weather forecasting means that the normal pre-flight package is usually sufficient on shorter flights,” says David Rytter, Chief Technical Officer at AVTECH. “On longer flights updates can be uplinked when necessary, since the files are very small in size. Now the part-nership with Norwegian has deepened, exploring the climb phase of the flight, with part of the funding coming from the Swedish Energy Agency.” AVTECH’s 10K weather is based on the UK Met Office’s high-definition weather model-ling system, and is calculated per flight by AVTECH’s patented algorithms, which are able to perform the calcula-tions using only the essential data. The company has worked closely with the Met Office for over seven years and is currently the only company with ac-cess to the full weather database. “Our Cray supercomputer gathers 215 billion weather observations a day from all over the world, which it then takes as a starting point for running atmospheric models” says James Guscott, Senior Ac-count Manager at Met Office. “Each run our 10km Global model completes pro-duces about 12TB of data and to make it useable for our current WAF service, we downscale this data to approxi-mately 140km. More info: www.avtech.aerochine produces around the clock. At the Palm paper factory, located in Aalen in Baden-Württemberg, everything circles around recovered paper. Nine paper machines in five factories annually pro-duce approximately 2.2 million tons of newsprint and corrugated base paper. The paper production continues around the clock. Correspondingly high are the demands from the eleven double-girder bridge cranes that have been in use in the factory in Wörth am Rhein since the start of production in 2002. Collectively, they handle and store the completed paper rolls that weigh many tons. “The cranes are in use day and night,” says Sven Bohrer, electrical engineer at the Palm paper factory. “If one should break one day, the production would have to stop, or at least greatly slow down, until the problem is solved. This would cost us time and money.” For this reason, Konecranes has closely investigated the gear oil of the hoisting gears of eight of the eleven double-girder bridge cranes at Palm. Because you can look deep in-side the oil, the wear metals and waste substances it contains make it possible to draw conclusions about the state of the entire gear. Nico Zamzow, Vice Presi-dent Industrial Service EMEA Central at Konecranes, comments on the method: “The oil analysis protects the crane. Any damage can be identified and treated early with its help. Moreover, system op-erators are able to optimize the mainte-nance and servicing of the cranes thanks to the detailed analysis report, and thus significantly increase their lifespan.”More info: www.konecranes.co.ukKnow the weather better, fly cheaper: Airlines can easily save both money and the environmentNext >