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OVENS, SPRAYBOOTHS & PROCESS HEATING Fully refurbished by Gallito, including a new burner, re-manufactured burner box, recirculation, ventilation and fl oor ducting, along with a new touch-screen control panel – with a fresh coat of paint the oven looks and performs as good as new. Gallito keep the heat on at CPC 22 years after fi rst installing an 18m3 box oven for a former sign making company in Bridlington, engineers from West Yorkshire-based Gallito Ltd recently returned to refurbish the same curing oven for Carnaby Powder Coatings (CPC). CPC was established by Kevin Clayton in 1998, in the wake of the demise of the sign making business he was working for at the time. With his considerable experience of powder coating, and the prospect of unemployment looming, Kevin identified a potential opportunity and took the laudable decision to rescue the coating side of the business. “I was convinced that a market existed for a company that could provide 34 a general powder coating service to local businesses in the area”, Kevin explained. 20 years down the line it’s evidently clear that this supposition was correct; today, CPC is a small but solid business, with a consistently full order book. CPC has a regular customer base of metalwork manufacturers and fabricators, but will undertake individual projects requiring a powder coat finish – anything from a set of vehicle wheels to a wrought iron gate, or a retail display unit to a bespoke steel balustrade … or indeed anything in between. Gallito Ltd have been delivering cost effective solutions to fulfil the varying paint finishing requirements of a wide range of industrial processes for over 40 years; providing everything from standard spray booths and surface preparation equipment, through to curing ovens and conveyor systems, as well as complete paint finishing systems. Now a member of the DCS Group of companies – a leading supplier of high quality technology products and services for dust and fume control, Gallito have provided CPC with ongoing maintenance over the years and in FEBRUARY 2019 2002, when Kevin relocated the business to a modern 3,000 sq. ft. facility on Carnaby Industrial Estate, a little over 3 miles from Bridlington’s seafront promenades, Gallito were tasked with carrying out the removal and reinstallation of the oven. However, after operating at 190°C for the best part of 22 years, the oven was beginning to succumb to the inevitable effects of age, and irritating technical breakdowns were becoming more frequent. So, when Kevin determined that the time had come to explore the available options for a suitable replacement, the fact that the old oven had been such a reliable investment over the years meant the decision to contact Gallito again was really a no-brainer. Andrew Connolly, Apprentice Project Engineer at Gallito, visited CPC to assess the company’s future requirements. “Having listened to Kevin’s appraisal of the business’s requirements, and learning about the type of work that CPC are involved with, I gave the old oven a thorough inspection”, says Andrew, “and, although originally designed and manufactured by Gallito as a box oven, twitter: @surfaceworldmag