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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
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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
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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,
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