 |
 |
||||||
[May 2008]
Lamosa Goes for Sacmi's New AVE 041
The Lamosa Group dates back all the way to 1890, when a small brickmaking company was founded in Monterrey, the central-northern Mexican city on the banks of the Rio Santa Catarina that is the capital of the Nuevo Leon region. Its main supporters were a group of North American shareholders. Even then, with its 75 workers, the Compañía Manufacturera de Ladrillos de Monterrey – as it was originally called – produced over 20 million pieces a year.
At present the Lamosa Group is both the leading company in the Mexican home market and a fast-growing force in several foreign markets. The main reason for this is the industrial reorganisation strategy that management began to implement about a year ago. Management, in fact, has clearly made technology its focus, signing a contract with Sacmi (Imola, BO, Italy) for the supply of an AVE 041 machine that will supply the warehouse with 6,000 pieces of sanitaryware a month.
A natural evolution of the AVE 040 (the world’s most successful WC high pressure casting machine, according to Sacmi), the new AVE 041 significantly reduces cycle times and enhances flexibility, increasing productivity – and therefore sales – by up to 40%. More specifically, this new model differs from its predecessor in that it features two robots, one for de-moulding and the other for static storage of the pieces. Injection flexibility means that the same line can make both American (siphon jet) and European-type WC bowls. This particular supply contract – successfully completed by Sacmi in close collaboration with the Lamosa technological team – also included full modernisation of the modelling department.
www.sacmi.com
ENDS