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THE ULTIMATE CEILINGS
The METALSCREEN suspended ceilings are a carefree solution as all the features are refined to perfection: aestetich aspects, fire safety, indoor air quality, acoustic absorption, possibility to integrate different installations, easy ceiling installation as well as cleanability and maintenance reliacility.
The METALSCREEN quality and reliability are guaranteed by expert personnel, long experience and the latest production technology. Our product groups offer a wide range of quality suspended ceilings for the needs of both the construction and the shipbuilding industry.
The METALSCREEN product lines include aluminium panels and profiles, cassettes and grids. The range is complemented by nomerous special products such as matching and suspension systems, mouldings and decorative profiles. |
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VARIETY OF STANDARD PRODUCTS TO CHOOSE FROM
Our diverse and highly developed product families enable the practical and flexible realisation of the designer's vision. The body of our range consists of the solutions found to be the best in practice by designers and customers. We also carry out intensive R&D activities so that we can keep on offering new solutions for today and the future.
TAILORED SOLUTIONS
The METALSCREEN know-how and expertise provide designers and builders with excellent possibilities to create individual, tailored ceiling structures. We are familiar with all metals: the alternatives available are steel.
The possibilities and finishes allowed by the material, including different painted finishes based on the entire range of colour charts available, anodising, polishing and varnishing, make the options available practically endless. We believe in co-operation in tailoring, too, so even your wildest suggestions are welcome.
PROJECTS IN CO-OPERATION
Co-operation with us from the earliest stages of the project provides the designers with freedom from a variety of technical and pratical details. Therefore the designer will have more time for the actual design process while we concentrate on what we know best - manufacturing functional and good-looking suspended ceilings.
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FRANCESCO
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BACKGROUND
The METALSCREEN corporate mission is the production of precision, quality prepainted steel and aluminium ceilings systems.
Founded in 1987, our company headquartered in the municipality of Bomporto - Modena has attained an excellent position on the national market. Our founder's strategic vision and the market's evolution have played a key role in setting before us a promising future and a position of national leadership within the sector in which we operate.
GLOBALIZATION
Our solid position on the national market has driven the company to define and put in place a new globalization strategy, focusing on the European market. In a first phase, we set our target-markets as Gulf area, where we recorded reasonable sales and an interesting growth rate. In a second phase, efforts will be channeled toward other markets.
SUPPLY
Especially geared to the conception and production of false ceilings, METALSCREEN has developed a diverse range of carefully designed products that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing. We are able to offer some 50 references for ceilings in prepainted steel and aluminium.
QUALITY
The keystone of our business strategy is growth with quality. Almost all the raw materials we use are certified ones. The company work with quality management system operated UNI EN ISO 9001 certification and all the products are certified European test approval  EN 13964:2007 - EN 14195:2005. This investment in quality improves internal management all round imparting more speed and effectiveness to our globalization process.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Aware of the fact that the human factor differentiates and enriches organizations, METALSCREEN invests in training personnel in both the technical and cultural areas. The company's code of conduct is guided by propriety and integrity, along with ensuring personal and professional job satisfaction for our employees. Factors key to our competitiveness.
CUSTOMERS
Any organization's most valuable asset is its customers, which METALSCREEN nurtures every day. Satisfying them and gaining their loyalty by providing first class service, while supplying a wide variety of products, is a company watchword and the best promise for the future. |
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QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
FOR ALL OF US
Our headquarters in Modena, our branch offices, subsidiary companies and numerous production facilities support our aim: to provide you with METALSCREEN systems and customized solutions within the shortest period of time.
The outstanding quality of our products and services is maintained by our Integrated Management System.
All products are subjet to continous further development, incorporating our clients needs and wishes.
Common organisational structures ensure well thought-out processes. Our management system complies with standards of DIN EN ISO 9001 - CE EN 13964:2007 - EN 14195:2005, covering our provisions for health and safety at work.
SUSTAINABLE BUILDING
We care for our environment: we therefore only use ecologically tested, suitable materials.
Our environmental management system ensures that energy consumption, emissions and waste are reduced in our production facilities and on our construction sites.
The integration of ISO 9001 quality management into our daily business is the foundation for our focus on health and safety at work - a focus which our employees and clients can take for granted.
METALSCREEN products and services togheter form solutions for the interior fit-out of tomorrow: sustainable, cost-effective, environmentally friendly.
As your partner we can guarantee significant assistance and contribution to the environmental ambitions of your building, be it on the basis of the international standard LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) published by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) or the DGNB requirements.
As a member of the Italian Sustainable Building Council METALSCREEN actively encourages the idea od Sustainable Building. We cultivate the transfer of knowledge as a means of raising public awareness of the environmental challenges of today.
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Advantages of pre-painted aluminium false ceilings
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 • High, re-producable quality
• Cost effecient
• Customer solution
• Process in one hand
• Easy to work without damaging the paint
• Variety of surfaces - structures, imitations
• Production process environmental friendly
• Thinner paint systems than post painted, because of coil coating
Why not benefit from the expertise of a leading world's manufacturer of aluminium suspended false ceilings? Use our decades of experience in aluminium products to your advantage. When it comes to such a versatile material as coil-coated aluminium, quality is critical. The raw material suppliers meets this need by tailoring each material to its specific application – and factoring in everything from the surface coating to the alloy. Applying international quality standards such as EN, DIN, ISO, BS, ASTM and ECCA, they conduct ongoing and intensive tests of materials and surfaces in our cutting-edge laboratories. Giving you quality that is signed, sealed and delivered.
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Aluminium and environment
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Aluminium is famous because of its environmental friendlyness. More than two thirds of primary aluminium is produced by hydroelectric power minimising emissions and natural resources use.
Aluminium's lightweight and overall excellent in use performance, together with it's recyclability, ensure that the life-cycle of many products are enhanced.
Aluminium is 100% recycable, again and again! One of the inherent qualities of aluminium is the fact that this metal can be recycled after its use without any loss of quality.
The recycling process only requires 5% of the energy needed to produce primary aluminium. With developments in legislation and the increasing number of end-use markets (notably packaging, automotive and building products), recyclable aluminum continues to play an important and growing role in the industry and for our customers.
That are important reasons for us to use a high percentage of recycled aluminium in our production. METALSCREEN owned recycling facilities to ensure that scrap metal and used aluminium is collected and brought back into the material cycle.
Recycled aluminium has the same characteristics and qualities like primary aluminium and can be re-used in all applications. And in practice? Recycling is a reality, saving natural resources and generating economic value.
Aluminium in Transport up to 90% recycling rates achieved
Aluminium in Building up to 90% recycling rates achieved
Aluminium Cans 50% recycled in Europe
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Technical ceilings training for consultant
 • Better understand how to provide. All customers with innovative products and services
• Be aware of personal and cultural perspectives
• Develop a values-based approach to customer excellence
• Become familiar with the professional acronym and know how to apply it to our policy
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"TWIN LOCK" T BAR GRID SYSTEM SEISMIC FOR LAY-IN CEILINGS SYSTEM
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SELECTED STEEL MATERIAL FIRST CHOICE - TOP QUALITY
Hot-dipped galvanized dry steel for BODY and pre-painted ALUMINIUM CORROSIONPROOF for CAP. Both of these material can meet with either ASTM or CNS standard and CE EN 13964:2004 - CE EN 14195:2005. Good quality of material can make sure the ceiling grid in qualified structure and loading ability when forming the body shape during the production process.
Be carefully, make attention to all manufacturers that use the pre-painted galvanized steel for CAP that became yellow, change colour in short time and corrosion and dust damage seriously the stability of the grid system WARNING.
Require the T bar grid system with the CAP made of pre-painted ALUMINIUM
CORROSIONPROOF suitable also for external use and humidity wet place, swimming pools, sauna, steam bath, fitness centers and kitchens.
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ALUMINIUM - THE MATERIAL OF CHOICE
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 • Excellent processing qualities
• Long life• Easy to recycle
• 2/3 lighter than steel
• Optimum surface finishing
Tomorrow`s products require materials fulfilling the highest demands: lightweight, yet robust, easy to work, yet suitable for the whole host of applications, at the same time economical in manufacturing and use.
Hardly any other material can meet all these requirements as well as aluminium, thanks to considerable energy savings in the course of a long service life, mainly due to its lightweight. Aluminium is geared towards the future: Aerospace solutions would be unthinkable without aluminium, in architecture, transport, electronics and many other fields, lightweighting has become a vital necessity and an important aspect in the climate change efforts.
A special advantage of used aluminium products is their excellent ability to be reutilised. Without any deterioration in quality, the same or other equally high quality products can be made from recycled aluminium.
 Modern aluminium alloys are around two thirds lighter than steel and can withstand extreme thermal and mechanical strain. Depending on alloy, strength and surface, these can be processed differently, are corrosion-resistant and will last for decades.
Economic and ecological bonus points, achieved by efficiency in production and low maintenance costs.
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COIL COATING ECOLOGICALLY
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The pre-painted aluminium sheet for the METALSCREEN ceilings is produced using the coil-coating process – a technology that is unique in its approach to the environment and scarce resources.
The use of chemicals and dyes is reduced to a minimum thanks to the special pretreatment and roller application process. When stoving the lacquer, extracted solvents are combusted and fed back into the process as heat. This ensures remains well below the statutory emission thresholds. The result is a coating that combines ideal processing qualities as e.g. adhesion or formability with excellent resistance to corrosion.
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It currently takes around 13.5 MWh of electricity to produce one ton of primary aluminium.
Concentrating solely on primary production, however, overlooks the fact that the energy used remains stored in the metal and is "reactivated" during the recycling process. As a result of the low melting point (660°C), only 5 % of the energy originally used is required to recycle aluminium.
Over and above these processes for recycling manufacturing and operating materials, an efficient aluminium recycling industry has been recycling aluminium for decades. In 2003, worldwide production of recycled aluminium amounted to 7.7 million tons (EU 2.4 million tons, Germany 680,400 tons) or around 25 % of the total aluminium production that year (approx. 75 % was accounted for by primary aluminium). This proportion is on the increase in most industrial countries.
Aluminium is ...
A: collected .... B: molten .... C: cast into ingots
D: rolled to coils .... E: pre-painted
• Aluminium is an energy “savings bank“
• Aluminium recycling only requires 5% additional energy
• Aluminium recycling protects resources
• The proportion of recycled aluminium is worldwide about 25%
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Coil coating ecologically
The pre-painted aluminium sheet for the METALSCREEN ceilings is produced using the coil-coating process – a technology that is unique in its approach to the environment and scarce resources.
The use of chemicals and dyes is reduced to a minimum thanks to the special pretreatment and roller application process. When stoving the lacquer, extracted solvents are combusted and fed back into the process as heat. This ensures remains well below the statutory emission thresholds. The result is a coating that combines ideal processing qualities as e.g. adhesion or formability with excellent resistance to corrosion.
Ecological enviroment ceilings systems
 METALSCREEN ceilings "Eco Systems" bring the benefits of quality aluminium ceilings within the reach of mainstream project budgets. These products have been selected from the extensive range of standard METALSCREEN ceilings and are available from a network of specialist distributors and contractors.
Manufactured to the highest standards METALSCREEN ceilings have a life cycle in excess of 25 years and when compared with traditional ceiling tile materials offer outstanding cost benefits to the building owner.
The range includes a selection of module sizes, suspension grids and perforation patterns to accomodate the aesthetic and performance requirements of the user.
The history of aluminium
 In 1807, the Englishman Davy discovered aluminium. At Les Baux in 1821, the Frenchman Berthier came across bauxite ore, the raw material for industrial aluminium production.
Pure aluminium particles were isolated for the first time in 1845 by the Göttingen Professor Friedrich Woehler. He was able to determine its main properties such as density, conductivity, corrosion resistance, etc.
It was only in 1886 - when Hall / Héroult received a patent for the electrolysis - that aluminium could be produced in larger quantities leading to lower aluminium prices. Research was thus able to improve the properties of aluminium, e.g. by using alloys.
In just 100 years, aluminium has developed from an expensive luxury into a versatile and widely used metal. Aluminium`s attractiveness is reflected by its increasing global demand. Consumption has more than doubled since 1970. In the future a significant increase is anticipated.
Bauxite: The raw material for aluminium production for centuries
• Third most common element of the earth's crust
• "Alum", aluminium was used for medicines and vegetable dyes as early as 2000 BC
• Pure aluminium particles "as big pinheads" were isolated for the first time by the Goettingen
Why is coil coating?
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Coil Coating means a continuous process within the aluminium substrate gets degreased, chemically pre-treated and coated.
The paint, an organic solvent or water-borne system, is applied through rolls.
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Humidity, Hygiene, Fire, Environments
HUMIDITY
Because of aluminium composition METALSCREEN ceilings are valid also in humid environments. METALSCREEN range is suitable for installation in high relative humidity condition, for example quick realization buildings, often alternation of hot and cold buildings, buildings with a great concentration of people, etc.
HYGIENE
•STERILE ENVIRONMENTS
METALSCREEN aluminium ceilings are suitable for environments where high hygiene an sterility properties ae required, such operating rooms, pharmaceutics industries, laboratories etc.
•ELECTRONIC AND DATA PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
METALSCREEN aluminium ceilings with smooth surface are suitable where it is necessary to protect technical apparatus from dust and dirty.
•ALIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS
METALSCREEN aluminium ceilings riles are suitable for environments where high hygiene conditions are required, such as kitchen, alimentary industries, specific shops like butcheries and fish shops etc., because of their mould and bacterium resistance and their washable surface.
FIRE BEHAVIOUR
"Fire reaction" is the fire grade performance of a material. That's why, material have been classified in different class from 0 (for example marbles, iron) to (for example wood) according to their attendance to burning. All metal ceiling (aluminium and steel) are class "0" (incombustible) as per D.M. 14.1.1985.
Quality of our aluminium suppliers
According to the international quality standards as EN, DIN, ISO, BS, ASDN and ECCA they are undertaking permanent material and surface tests in their in-house paint and coating laboratories.
- Quality control extends to every step of the production process
- Integrated production process ensures constant, high and reproducable quality
- Own labs in production sites
- Tests include paint, gloss, thickness, hardness, adhesion. All testing in accordance with DIN, EN, ASTM, ECCA and Novelis standard
- Outside exposure testing
- TQM and ISO certified
Production of pre-painted aluminium to manufacturer the false ceilings according to high quality standards of:
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 ECCA T1: Layer thickness
- ECCA T2: Gloss
- ECCA T3: Colour difference
- ECCA T4: Pencil hardness
- ECCA T5: Impact resistance
- ECCA T6: Adhesion after cupping
- ECCA T7: Retained flexibility
- ECCA T8: Resistance to salt spray
- ECCA T9: Water immersion resistance
- ECCA T10: Weather resistance - accelerated UV testing
- ECCA T13: Ageing - accelerated heat testing
- ECCA T14: Chalking
- ECCA T17: Adhesion of protective film
- ECCA T18: Scratch resistance
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FALSE CEILINGS INDUSTRIES
BUILDING PROFILES AND SUSPENSION SYSTEMS FACTORY
VIA ALDO MORO, 38
41030 BOMPORTO MODENA - ITALY EU
Ph. +39 059 8170611
Fax +39 059 8170633
E-mail: metalscreen@metalscreen.it
Quality Management System Operated
UNI EN ISO 9001
European Test Approval
EN 13964:2007
EN 14195:2005
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We are dedicated manufacturing sustainable products.
Our paint and aluminium melting processes are considered to be one of the industry standards in terms of clean production processes. All aluminium products are 100% recyclable at the end of their lifecycle.
The use of chemicals and dyes is reduced to a minimum thanks to the special pretreatment and roller application process. When stoving the lacquer, extracted solvents are combusted and fed back into the process as heat. This ensures remains well below the statutory emission thresholds. The result is a coating that combines ideal processing qualities as e.g. adhesion or formability with excellent resistance to corrosion.
Aluminium is famous because of its environmental friendlyness. More than two thirds of primary aluminium is produced by hydroelectric power minimising emissions and natural resources use. Aluminium's lightweight and overall excellent in use performance, together with it's recyclability, ensure that the life-cycle of many products are enhanced. Aluminium is 100% recycable, again and again! One of the inherent qualities of aluminium is the fact that this metal can be recycled after its use without any loss of quality. The recycling process only requires 5% of the energy needed to produce primary aluminium. With developments in legislation and the increasing number of end-use markets (notably packaging, automotive and building products), recyclable aluminum continues to play an important and growing role in the industry and for our customers. That are important reasons for us to use a high percentage of recycled aluminium in our production. METALSCREEN owned recycling facilities to ensure that scrap metal and used aluminium is collected and brought back into the material cycle. Recycled aluminium has the same characteristics and qualities like primary aluminium and can be re-used in all applications. And in practice? Recycling is a reality, saving natural resources and generating economic value.
Aluminium in Transport up to 90% recycling rates achieved
Aluminium in Building up to 90% recycling rates achieved
Aluminium Cans 50% recycled in Europe
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