What size companies choose TP Compact, the compact oven from Mazzaroppi? There is no single answer to this question: TP Compact is so versatile and high-performance that it adapts to the needs of glassworks and also to those of large companies.
An example of this is the European group Vandaglas, with offices throughout Europe, which chose TP Compact for its Austrian headquarters.
Who is Vandaglas?
The group produces high quality insulating glass and interior glass in all possible shapes and sizes and is active in its locations in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, England and, indeed, Austria, although its products are used worldwide for architectural façades and design projects. With more than 900 employees, it has to date realised more than 10,000 façade projects in over 50 countries worldwide.
‘We put all our efforts into our future,’ says Managing Director Nicolas Alexander Lahodny, ‘and that is why we are very pleased with the investment made in our Heidenreichstein site with the purchase of the new TP Compact. We are looking forward to delivering our first in-house tempered glass to our customers!’.
Why did Vandaglas choose TP Compact?
A globally established company needs an oven capable of ensuring a level of performance excellence. But it is not only this that determines the choice of the right tempering furnace for its needs.
In particular, Vandaglass needed:
- reduced electrical installation: this was their fundamental problem, as they needed to avoid having to redo the entire electrical installation. This would not only have required a particularly large financial investment, but also a good three years to complete.
- limited production consumption: to keep labour costs at an appropriate level.
- limited floor space occupied: they wanted to make the best use of the available company space.
- quality of tempering: they were not willing to compromise on the yield of their final product.
- ease of use of the furnace: for every company today it is essential to have equipment that can be operated even by non-highly specialised personnel and always give excellent results.
Thanks to discussions with the Head of Group Process Engineering at Vandaglas, Guillaume Kaminski, we finalised the choice of the best oven to meet all these needs, after an analysis and testing phase that also took place in part at Mazzaroppi’s Aprilia site, near Rome.
The Mazzaroppi solution
TP Compact meets all the requirements expressed by the company. The model chosen for Vandaglas is 1.9×3.6 metres in size, with convection for low-e, i.e. low-emissivity glass.
In addition, installation and testing took place on schedule, thanks to the valuable collaboration of Site Manager Mario Müllauer and Head of Group Process Engineering Guillaume Kaminski.
The compact, high-performance furnace from Mazzaroppi meets all the quality requirements imposed by Vandaglas, to the full satisfaction of the company, which can now:
- Temper glass in-house with up to 70% lower consumption than other tempering furnaces.
- Have an oven that is always ready, because TP Compact goes from 0 to 680° C in one hour.
- Eliminate unproductive costs, because TP Compact can be switched off every night and the day after the first start-up it can reach temperature in half an hour.
Would you also like to know if there is a tempering furnace that can revolutionise your work too?
We’ll tell you: ask for a free Mazzaroppi Energy Saving Check and discover the solution for you, perfectly adaptable to your space and in line with the consumption you do not want to exceed.
CEO Mazzaroppi Engineering Srl
