CUCCOLINI srl - Virto Group
Virto is an integrated group of businesses with focused operations on multiple industries worldwide. The group is privately owned and has offices in Italy. VIRTO-CUCCOLINI is the perfect synthesis for innovation and tradition in the field of separation technology. These two brands, starting from the experience of the Italian Company Cuccolini srl and thanks to the most recent technology added by Virto Group, can count on a wide product range, from traditional vibrating sieves to patent-protected multi-frequency vibrating screens: this opens their market to an infinite variety of industrial applications, from safety and control screening and classification to high performance heavy industry screening. With more than 50.000 vibrating screens placed in 75 Countries, Cuccolini is the third European manufacturer of industrial sieves.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Water Filtration and Separation
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1946
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
Its history starts in northern Italy, in 1946, as the first manufacturer of sieves in ceramic industry. Nowadays, Virto-Cuccolini vibrating screens are FDA and Atex certified.
With its range of both circular and rectangular screening machines for separating all kinds of powders and liquids and its long-time expertise, Virto-Cuccolini is strongly qualified to become world’s best manufacturer in the field of industrial screening: a mission that is a way of doing business with a special care for each Customer. Virto-Cuccolini is an ideal partner taking care of its Customers’ specific configuration and construction needs. They check machines performance with laboratory tests, use specific materials and measures according to the field of use, deliver the products in agreed time, design and manufacture vibrating screens easy to clean and maintain, provide continuous and specialized assistance. fields of application are various and include:
- Waste and Recycling
- Oil, Mining & Minerals
- Chemicals & Plastics
- Food & Beverage
- Construction Materials
- Metal powders
Virto-Cuccolini’s product portfolio includes three distinct lines:
C-LINE – The former Cuccolini line, it is a complete range of traditional vibrating sieves that provides high quality, reliable, cost effective screening solutions. it services the needs of traditional particle separation from 20 mm to 20 μm.
T-LINE – It is a product range of Tumblers (VTU), a separator used for classifying and de-dusting fine, dry, non-sticky materials at a high capacity and high efficiency. The special tridimensional movement makes it particularly well-suited for “delicate” materials, also with multi-stage separation, for a particle size range between 10 mm and 100 μm.
X-LINE – A range of products based on Virto’s patented and cutting edge MFV technology that allows for highly effective multi-frequency vibratory movements. Developed over 20 years of R&D, it is revolutionary in its ability to significantly increase capacity and efficiency in screening problematic materials that are ultra-fine (down to 5 μm), wet or dry, sticky or abrasive.
History
Cuccolini, now owned by Virto Group, has a long history covering decades of industrial development.
Why Sieving?
Clean a powder or granular product from undesired particles with bigger dimensions (i.e. lumps, insects, metal parts etc.) or with smaller dimensions (i.e. fine powder) than main valuable product;
Separate a powder or granular product into groups according to particle dimensions, in order to identify and create different products;
Dewater a liquid product by separating its solid content from water.
Why is sieving introduced in manufacturing processes?
There can be many reasons, like:
- Safety: sieving is required in order to make sure that undesired particles are not entering together with main product into production cycle. In specific industries like food, this application follows law requirements concerning food production safety. In other industries, like 3D printing, this application is necessary in order to guarantee final component quality.
- Quality: sieving can be an interesting option in order to identify and create different valuable products starting from a bulk ingredient. Particle dimensions can play a role in food, metal powder, construction and many other industries, where each product extracted from bulk can correspond to a different market opportunity.
- Recovery: the circular economy concept is triggering industries to rethink their production process and find ways to make it more sustainable; within this context, sieving can be a good opportunity to extract valuable product from waste and transform it into a new opportunity as a new product to be used or sold.
If we want to explain this more technically, we can refer to below chart, which shows a sample product volume by particle size (i.e. PSD = particle size distribution) and indicates according to required cut point(s) which sieving applications are identified: dedusting (main product is cleaned out from finer particles); safety screening (main product is cleaned out from bigger particles); classification (middle fractions of a product are extracted from bulk according to their particle size).