45 WORKPIECES Component parts up to 9 t (16 m x 2.7 m x 1.5 m) PERFORMANCE DATA Product carriers: 15 single-track product carriers Throughput: approx. 3 product carriers/h PROCESS TECHNOLOGY Afotek GmbH and Nordson Deutschland GmbH GIGA COATING, GERMANY While useful, truck trailers are also large and heavy. Giga Coating GmbH recently constructed an entirely new surface treatment facility in Twist. Large parts up to 15.7 m long and 9 t in weight are not only coated there, but also blasted, submerged, swiveled, and heat-treated in suspended furnaces. The automated circu- lation principle creates capacities for up to 100 trailers and special parts per day in two con- struction stages. 1 2 floor-mounted submersion mani- pulators serve 12 pre-treatment tanks - for de-greasing, flushing and zinc-phosphating - and cathodic submersion coating along a 55 m length 1 REFERENCE PROJECT