Sacmi-Gaiotto’s GDA80 continues its success and popularity on the market as leading solution for robotized glazing of sanitaryware. Among its many advantages, customers particularly appreciate zero maintenance, consistent quality and reliability over time, plus the possibility to re-vamp existing cells.
Ever since its launch in 2013, GDA80 – the automatic membrane glazing spray-gun developed by SACMI-Gaiotto – has been highly popular on the market with more than 1000 supplied and currently operating in over 500 sanitaryware plants around the world, re-affirming its reputation as the leading solution for reliability, efficiency and quality in the glazing process.
Long lifetime and zero maintenance: revolutionary for its simplicity
Compared to the traditional spray-gun, the Gaiotto Membrane Automatic Gun uses membrane technology specifically adapted to the robotized glazing process.
In particular, the GDA80 has no needle or seal, which are the main causes of wear and clogging in conventional spray-guns. The result is a consistent process and uniform glazing quality, thanks to the reduced overspray and perfect distribution of the glaze.
Moreover, the needle in conventional spray-guns is made of tungsten carbide which is a particularly expensive consumable material, unlike a rubber membrane, which is both cheaper and lasts longer (6 months guaranteed but field tests also show durability with continuous use of even more than a year).
The first advantage is clearly the cutting of maintenance costs which, with this type of application, can have a greater impact than the cost of the spray-gun itself. The second benefit, of equal importance, is the consistently high-quality glaze application (the needle with seal needs continuous maintenance and its action leads to premature wear of the nozzle which has to be replaced after just a few months).
Even if the glaze quality is considered the same, the GDA080 solution is advantageous compared to the traditional version, in terms of repeatability of the process, because it is more reliable.
Confirmation in the field: “We forget it’s even there!”
“Ever since we started using it, we forget it’s even there”, is a common refrain from our customers who have chosen the GDA80 over the years. Easy installation and the dramatic reduction in the need for technical assistance leads to a return on the investment in less than 12 months, with real savings of over 90% in terms of spare parts and manual operations.
The solution can also be supplied as part of a “revamping” of existing cells, as can be seen by the large number of jobs of this kind carried out by SACMI (which, for these applications, has the largest machine fleet in the world).
Feedback from the field has also led to another innovation; the idea of equipping the robot with a single spray-gun instead of two. Thanks to the top part with enlarged lights, with a negligible increase in cycle time, the use of a single spray-gun halves costs improving the flexibility and precision of robot applications, as well as significantly reducing glaze overspray.
Technical specifications
Made entirely of stainless steel, the GDA80 is supplied with 0.5 to 2.7 mm nozzles and is both EC- and Atex-Certified, thus also suitable for working environments with potentially explosive atmospheres.
The solution can work with the most common automatic spraying systems (electric/volumetric pump and with pressure control).
Contact your SACMI sales representative to find out more!