Mr. Ennio Mognato, Flat Glass Sector Manager at Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro (Glass Research Centre), has recently visited the EVALAM factory in As Pontes, A Coruña, Spain. The purpose of the visit was to show Mr. Mognato the exhaustive production processes and the demanding quality controls to achieve an EVA with high performances.
EVALAM, part of the Pujol Group, has in Spain what today can be considered one of the most modern EVA factories in the world, with an area of 3,500 square metres dedicated to the development, formulation and extrusion of EVA. In the plant there are three production lines, including a 2.60-metre-wide line, which allows it to respond to the demand for wide-format structural glass.
The Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro (SSV), active in Murano-Venice since 1956, is an international research centre and a specialized analysis laboratory accredited UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025. They provides technical and scientific support to the entire supply chain of glass: producers, manufacturers, users of glass, producers of raw materials, of refractories and of machinery for the glass industry.
More than fifty people, including graduates, engineers and specialised technicians, work in laboratories equipped with the latest generation of scientific instruments, developing applied research projects, providing technical assistance services and carrying out quality control, certification and compliance tests in the various fields of the glass industry: hollow glass, flat glass for the building industry and for transport, household articles, technical glass, glass fibres and artistic glass.
All tests on glass for the construction, railway and naval sectors are carried out in the Marghera laboratories. The technicians at the Marghera headquarters also carry out control audits for the CE marking and the voluntary UNI marking, in addition to offering advice on obtaining foreign marks (Cekal, etc.).
During the visit Mr. Mognato followed the explanations of Gonzalo Calvo, manager of EVALAM, who pointed out how “at EVALAM, we assume the challenge of offering the best EVA product for architectural and photovoltaic use. We are effectively achieving this thanks to the modernization of our plant and a committed and expert human team. But we cannot do it alone. For this reason it is important to work with entities of recognized prestige and with the importance of Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro.”