SYSTEMS

Sand preparation has often – and wrongly – been considered secondary to other main issues, such as moulding or casting plant. Investments have often been aimed at increasing productivity (“to make more flasks”) and capacity of furnaces (“to fill the flask”). This right corporate policy has often created problem to the sand plant, that has more or less brilliantly withstood all these changes.
Today, expressions like “efficiency”, “quality”, “integration of processes” are part of our daily job. So, if the company is seen as an organism working as a strongly integrated system (and not by separate sectors), also the sand plant (the “poor relative”) needs a new approach. [...]