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01 THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO INVENT IT Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera is a global leader in designing and manufacturing extrusion lines for several applications including: blown film lines, foil and sheet lines, as well as complete rigid and soft PVC pelletizing machines and extruders for steel pipe coating. Mission Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera mission is: to affirm itself as an international extrusion process excellence centre which combines designing, engineering, manufacturing and service; to supply technologically advanced solutions to the plastic industry; to provide exceptional value to the customer with safe, efficient and low power consumption lines thus favouring recycled and biodegradable material processing; to achieve customer satisfaction by understanding the customer s needs and exceeding the customer s expectations; to deliver reliable machines and to provide the highest quality service; to continuously improve the capabilities of the employees and treat them as valued contributors to the success of the Company. History Bandera was established in 1947 by Luigi Bandera and soon proved to be a strong expanding company, thus contributing to the actual development of plastics processing industry in Europe. In 1960s 1970s, Bandera activities underwent remarkable expansion to reach an industrial scale production, offering a wide and diversified range of extrusion products, such as pipe extrusion lines, profile extrusion equipment, sheet extrusion lines. In 1980s 1990s the company was acknowledged as one of the leaders in blown film extrusion and sheet extrusion in Europe and worldwide. Bandera, currently managed by Piero and Franco, the founder s sons, has recently focussed its product range on the main application of packaging and converting, developing detailed worldwide sales and service operations and enlarging again the production facility to satisfy the customer need to test complete plants. OUR MISSION and HISTORY GLOBAL PRESENCE ENGINEERING and INNOVATION PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
02 THINK GLOBAL, DO LOCAL Bandera s goal is to have a global vision while acting locally. Besides being international, the company is also local considering that its roots are based in the handicraft tradition that allowed made in Italy to become important all over the world. It is global, because it is able to act on the world stage with a single strategy based on the concept of the customer focus. Such a focus is reflected in the flexibility of a highly specialized structure capable of operating simultaneously on different projects at a local and global level. It is reflected in the project management methods aimed at supporting the customer during all the project phases, from engineering to installation, up to the after-sale and support services. It is reflected in the absolute control on all kinds of processing phases, which are performed by internal departments in order to ensure the highest quality and the respect of the delivery terms. Service centres Sales network The 4 Bandera service centres, located in Italy, Belgium, China and Brazil, take care, respectively, of customers from South Europe, Africa and Middle East, North Europe, Asia and North and South America. A capillary sales network of agents acts actively to be quick and to satisfy the demands of all Bandera s clients. GLOBAL PRESENCE ENGINEERING and INNOVATION PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
All around the orld! USA and Canada, SBA with PTI (Service Centre America) Belgium (Service Centre North Europe) Scandinavia Austria England Germany France Cuba Guatemala Mexico Spain Head Quarters and Service Centre South Europe, Africa and Middle East Egypt Colombia Brazil (Service Centre Americas) Chile Argentina South Africa
Turkey Poland Russian Federation Sud Korea China (Branch Office and Service Centre Asia) Thailand India Indonesia Singapore Malaysia GLOBAL PRESENCE ENGINEERING and INNOVATION PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
03 INNOVATION AS A LIFESTYLE FOR BANDERA PEOPLE Bandera engineering is a well-structured process used to deliver both short-term innovation initiatives as well as medium and long term projects. Being a technology company, Bandera is used to continuously growing and reshaping its technology base to provide its customers with a stream of new machineries, exploiting improved or new properties. A close contact with the market provides R&D with several market-pull innovation proposals. Bandera establishes a very close relationship with customers, partners and suppliers pursuing a co-development as well as a co-design approach. Collaborative model Exploration activities A collaborative, open innovation model is often adopted by Bandera to rapidly implement the best business model, looking for value creation and value sharing among partners. Cooperation agreements and open collaborative projects are aimed at exploiting specific strategic resources in the short term or for exploration activities to develop know-how in the field of packaging and converting, so to pave the way of future extrusion. Technology is a mindset deeply embedded into the Bandera people, is a fluently spoken language to speak with customers, with partners and with suppliers. Bandera extrusion is a living ecosystem, growing, changing, and breathing, tightly interconnected with the world of plastics. Bandera incessantly fuels the components of its technology portfolio that include competence, tools and methods to model, design and optimize machineries, engineer and rapidly turn a proof-of-concept into manufacturing of a plant. ENGINEERING and INNOVATION PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
04 PACKAGING and CONVERTING: THE FUTURE of EXTRUSION Built on an industrial complex of more than 55.000 sq. mts, Bandera internally design and manufacture mechanical components, such as large size extruder screws, barrels and die-heads. Our in-house manufacturing facility ensures the best quality as well as a prompt supply of spare parts, including non-standard or out of production components. Development staff with in-depth knowledge of rheology accommodates, in a dedicated brand new plant, R&D industrial tests and executes complete line wet trials. Bandera extrusion process combines industrial series production with engineering, R&D, quality check procedures and after service. Extrusion plants for single and multilayer rigid film are mainly intended for plastic food packaging, while blown film extrusion is mainly intended for flexible packaging industry, agriculture process and converting industry. PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
04.1 BLOWN FILM EXTRUSION main production lines Adhering to strict compliance with accredited procedures and accuracy in selecting reliable and skilled European part suppliers, Bandera is focused on exclusive in-house manufacture of the basic equipment for its blown film extrusion lines - a reason for the company excellence in the field. Bandera is ranked among the few European and world manufacturers of extrusion machinery whose technological assets feature a know-how combining synergies of rigid and flexible packaging fields with the experience acquired in direct production of blown film extrusion heads in small, medium and large sizes. Control systems Bandera blown film extrusion lines are equipped with automatic quality control systems, such as loss-in-weight gravimetric dosing system, in-line film thickness measurement, automatic winding, supervisory system and user-friendly computerised line control. Production range The full production range includes: Techno Flex plus blown film machines mainly, used in the flexible packaging industry, converting and lamination industry for the production of multi layer film; HDB Flex equipment mainly used for the production of industrial bags; HYBRID Flex machines particularly suggested for industrial application; Smart Flex plus blown film plants for the production of retail bags and bags of different shapes and sizes, as well as shrink film. This machine series is characterized by a competitive investment level, high productivity, enlarged thickness range, maximized flexibility and efficiency and reduced power consumption; complete blown film multilayers big plants for the production of agricultural film and geomembrane HDPE, field in which Bandera is the leading company in the world. PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
04.2 FOIL AND SHEET EXTRUSION main production lines Bandera manufactures complete extrusion lines for the production of high thickness windable single and multilayer. The best technology The company is world leader in extrusion technology intended for high rate outputs (up to and over 2,500kg/h), thickness and width range (0.12 2mm up to and over 2,400mm width) for the production of PET foil. Furthermore, Bandera innovatively developed bulk dosing systems for master batches and mineral fillers for composite sheet by co-rotating twin-screw and/or cascade extruders combined with innovative and precise raw material gravimetric loss-in-weight dosing units, fully automated multi-reel winding systems for high-speed foil extrusion lines and melt super filtration systems. Innovative know-how and technologies are applied to a cutting edge thermoplastic process in applications such as 120micron 2mm thickness windable foil from HIPS, PP, CRPS, A/CPET, PETG and PLA, for rigid thermoformed food packaging. Sheet extrusion Bandera also manufactures complete extrusion lines for the production of thick sheet for the following applications: thin PP and PET sheet intended for paper and cardboard industry; mid-thick sheet from PS and ABS/ABS-PMMA intended for household appliances; mixed material sheet, such as thermoplastic rubbers and non-homogeneous industrial waste, for vehicle components and deep draw thermoforming; technical sheet from HDPE, PP, HMWPE, PC mixed with ABS; flexible sheet intended for waterproofing applications, such as multilayer PP/PE geomembranes, with internal fibre reinforcement and outer nonwoven fabrics; high transparency and optical quality sheet from PET, PC, and PMMA; high opalescent sheet from PMMA/ABS intended for panels and movable edges. PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
04.3 PVC - PET PELLETIZING and STEEL PIPE COATING auxiliary lines Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera designs and manufactures complete rigid and soft PVC and PET pelletizing lines for several and various applications. PVC pelletizing PET pelletizing The core process of PVC pelletizing is made of the twin-screw extruder featuring parallel counter-rotating twin screws with increased length (L/D 1:28). This extruder stands out for enhanced product quality - material jellification in the barrel is made step by step and under lower stress conditions -, and for high productivity with high flexibility in recipes. PET pelletizing process is made of co-rotating twin screw extruders and PET/PP pelletizing lines for direct extrusion for compounding and recycling. Co-rotating extruders applied to compounding extrusion are used in a large number of high tech applications in several vertical markets, among which the most important are food, textile and automotive. Steel pipe coating Bandera has been operating in the thermoplastic resin and steel pipe coating industries for over 20 years, offering complete extrusion systems for outer thermoplastics (PE and adhesive) coating lines intended for steel pipes for ducting, especially in hydrocarbon transportation. Coating lines are divided into sleeve-type extrusion, with a coating head intended for pipe diameters up to 24 and side-banded extrusion (flat die head) for pipe diameters up to 80. The lines All lines are able to produce composite multilayer plastics/steel pipes and coating lines/heads for steel drawn products; all of them are equipped with automated quality control and userfriendly computer supervision systems to ensure substantial savings in steel coating resins. PRODUCT RANGE and PRODUCTION PROCESS AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
05 TECHNICAL SERVICE IS A SERIOUS MATTER This is the claim of the technical and after-sales service team committed to achieve customer satisfaction and to support every client with customized assistance both at the line start-up and testing, and at the production stage. The range of services that Bandera offers are aimed at increasing productivity, reducing waste, improving product quality or adding new capabilities without making a major investment. After-Sales Program Bandera After-Sales Program includes: guarantee on demand over 24 months; on site personalized training for new applications and engineering services; fast and appropriate technical service that takes care of mechanical, electronic and processing issues; 4 service centres covering the global market around the clock and around the world field service; offers for effective spare parts packages and assistance in identifying and securing parts for client s equipment; servicing plants for extraordinary maintenance and maintenance programs; revamping of existing equipment and complete lines to ensure optimal productivity and product quality; a dedicated plant for R&D, industrial tests and complete line wet trials in a detached room. AFTER SALES and TECHNICAL SERVICE WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
06 A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SHARE PASSION CAN ACHIEVE the most challenging goals! Building on innovation, ensuring technical assistance on process issues as well as on problem solving and exceeding the customer s expectations is the reason why you can rely on Bandera. Bandera lines are recognized for their: MAXIMUM LINE PROCESS VERSATILITY universally designed twin screw and single screw extruders based on cutting edge technology; head melt channels designed with rheological data from the latest materials; easy combination and interface with ancillary equipment. LONG-LASTING RELIABILITY inhouse construction sturdiness; long-lasting references on the market; selection of certified sub-suppliers. GUARANTEED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE prompt support and emergency intervention with problem solving and process issues ; enlarged team of experienced testing technicians; on-call spare part availability, made-to-order mechanical components included. POWER SAVING fitting of the most innovative motors and AC drives; maximized die yield with excellent power/output ratio. COMPETITIVE INVESTMENT VALUE manufacturing and assembly process rationalization; strong purchasing power from specialized sub-suppliers; low engineering costs due to high industrialization level and process reliability. TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION an ongoing R&D process which has involved a 5.5 million Euro total investment over the most recent five years and will amount to a value equal to 3.5% turnover between 2013 and 2017. WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
Dedicated R&D plant
06.1 COMMITTED TO LONG-TERM SUCCESS AND STABILITY An attentive investment strategy for the construction of a dedicated R&D plant for industrial tests aimed at: expanding the business portfolio and market leadership; focusing on customer global satisfaction, maximizing quality and production efficiency; fostering long-term business relationships with the ultimate goal to generate value for customers; practicing an ethic of responsibility and transparency towards stakeholders. NEW 2.600 m 2 Railway EXISTING 13.000 m 2 WHY CHOOSE BANDERA
Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera S.p.A. Corso Sempione, 120-21052 Busto Arsizio (VA) Italy T +39 0331 398111 - F +39 0331 680206 lbandera@lbandera.com - luigibandera.com