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PAINT & PINTURA
waterborne formulations and
dispersions based on performance
pigments.
Colorimetry - Higher Precision
Colors
Producing colors with quality and
safety requires colorimetric har-
dware and software that ensure
accurate color measurements and
repeatability.
Colorimetry equipment and sof-
tware are essential to ensuring
accuracy in several paint formu-
lation and quality control appli-
cations. The advantages to using
such products are substantial in
that they rid paint manufacturers
of subjective evaluations, as they
let the equipment measure colors
against standard specifications,
while speeding up their proces-
ses and obtaining clearer, more
accurate reports on such measure-
ments and comparisons.
Just as important as these systems
is having personnel with enough
knowledge and skills to appro-
priately run them, thus ensuring
efficient results. For this reason,
the related equipment and sof-
tware suppliers provide customers
with training, refresher courses,
technical assistance and applica-
tion support.
Structuring - An Undertaking
Focused on Efficiency
After making investments estima-
ted at R$ 80 million, CMP (Compa-
nhia Metalgraphica Paulista) has
opened its new site in Cajamar,
São Paulo, which sits in a piece of
land covering 93,000 sq. m with
a built-up area of 37,000 sq. m.
However, only 20,000 sq. m will
be taken up by the company’s new
plant, while the remaining 17,000
sq. m have been divided into units
which will be leased to other com-
panies, making up a real logistics
condominium.
The new plant will receive all of
the structure and equipment and
around 50 percent of the employe-
es from the site located in the dis-
trict of Mooca, in São Paulo, which
will be shut down. “The Cajamar
site will house all of our adminis-
trative departments, an audi-
torium, a restaurant, a parking
lot, and loading and unloading
docks for trucks, which makes it a
complete industrial complex that
is expected to be the workplace of
around 300 employees. In addition
to the CMP area, we’ve divided the
rest of the facilities into 10 units
that are available to other com-
panies for rent,” announces CMP’s
chief financial officer José Villela
de Andrade, who adds that the
Cajamar site started up in Janua-
ry 2013.
As a result, CMP will have three
plants up and running: the new
plant in Cajamar, São Paulo, and
the ones located in Morro Agudo,
São Paulo and Anápolis, Goiás.
“At Cajamar, CMP has a major
point of difference: there is a large
storage area for finished goods
with a 12-m ceiling height, ena-
bling us to vertically store pallets
as much as four times higher. In
addition, we have eight loading
and unloading docks for trucks,
two of which for loading curtain
sider trucks, thus streamlining
our loading activities. The unit
also has a huge area for maneu-
vering trucks during loading and
unloading operations where we’ll
receive our customers’ trucks, wi-
thout any restrictions, as there is
enough room for that and even for
them to stay overnight on com-
pany premises, where necessary,”
says CMP’s sales manager Adriano
Marson.
Marson stresses that the storage
area will eliminate two bottlene-
cks. “Firstly, can manufacturers
don’t have the space that we do
now. Secondly, our customers have
no space to store raw materials,
not to mention that storage places
are very expensive. So, not only do
we have this point of difference on
storage, CMP’s entire complex will
run at high speeds thanks to its
layout, which is designed to stre-
amline all of our processes. There
is a whole sequence to be followed
by the manufacturing operation:
upon receipt, tinplates are proces-
sed at a section next to the receipt
area, and then they are moved on
to the textured printing system,
whereupon we assemble and deli-
ver our cans, i.e. we follow a very
well-planned, defined sequence to
have our processes run smoothly,”
Marson explains, adding that CMP
will have storage capacity of 30
days worth of its output.
Recognized for Excellence
After only seven years in business
as a supplier of raw materials
for paints and coatings, Quimi-
craft closed the year 2012 with a
major achievement. The company
won the BASF Supplier Excellen-
ce Award in the Raw Materials
category. “These awards have been
in existence for five years now,
but only in 2012 was this category
added by BASF and, to our joy, it
was first presented to us. BASF, a
German multinational with a very