XYLON INTERNATIONAL 14 September-October 2018

COMPANIES

FIFTY YEARS OF GROWTH!Congratulations to MVT - Mion Ventoltermica inMaserada sul Piave, few kilometers from Treviso:the company has reached the 50-year milestone,showing that responding to market demand andidentifying new opportunities is the formula ofsuccess. So said Paolo Mion, managing directorof the company, as we met him in the Maseradaoffices. The picture we get from his introductionis already quite interesting: 75 employees, con-stantly increasing year after year; revenues atapproximately 12 million euro with an average10 percent annual increase in recent years; anexport share close to 40 percent all over theworld, with a focus on North America and Europe,with South East Asia coming up. Significant figuresthat indicate a vitality and a vision we honestlydid not imagine to find in a specialist of air ex-traction. We don't want to denigrate this businessor this product category, which bring undeniablebenefits, but the trend of MVT - Mion Ventoltermicais really impressive.

“The reason is clear: in the past thirty years, wehave complemented our traditional businesssector – the furniture industry, from particle-board production up to finished furniture – withour expertise in other industries building areputation in different situations”, Paolo Mionexplains. “We started to handle other powdermaterials, from inert plastics to metal powders:wherever you have dust or powder that endan-gers health or the environments, or generatesexplosion risks, powders to be captures, treatedand stored, we can design, engineer and man-ufacture all you need, including mechanical

equipment and management and control units,covering all filtering requirements. Not only: be-sides our experience in air suction, we havedeveloped increasing expertise in system lo-gistics, so we can take care of handling andprocessing dust once it has been separatedfrom air… some powders are also raw materials.We started from the wood industry, from air ex-traction, but also from plants to feed ovens, in-cineration, cogeneration, evolving from basicdust-removing systems to plants that can solvedifferent challenges. I am thinking about cus-tomers who mix sawdust into plasterboard,global leaders in this type of product".

A big step…“This is just a small example of what we aredoing today: you see, when you talk aboutsuction and filtration, you think about somethingnecessary, mandatory for the health of certainenvironments or processes. But when you getraw materials out of it, the importance of ourwork grows exponentially, it generates value,you really appreciate the knowledge, the tech-nology, the experience required to offer an ef-fective solution. Removing dust is one thing,creating a filtration system that is an integralpart of a production process that starts from therecovered "particles" is totally different. We usefilters for the granulometric separation of anytype of dust, including calcium carbonate usedfor the production of pastilles in the food, agri-cultural and pharmaceutical industries. After all,we have been growing naturally over fifty years,adapting our "mission", i.e. air treatment, to the

scenarios we found alongthe way. More recently,for instance, we havebeen involved in the treat-ment of organic wastefor compost productionand treatment of munic-ipal solid waste for theproduction of R.D.F.(Refuse Derived Fuel)to be sent to incinerationplants achieving the bestpossible result. This busi-ness has rapidly expand-ed to 50 percent of ourrevenues and we are one of the Europeanleaders in this industry. I will tell you more: ourcompetitors are engineering companies. We arethe only ones who can design and manufacture,starting from feasibility studies, going throughthe design and engineering of entire plants, upto the construction of each element and final in-stallation, dealing with mechanical parts, electricaland electronic components, software… We worka lot in France, Croatia and Slovenia: in France,to make an example, we are leaders in suctionplants for the electric wire crushing machines,a very peculiar process for which we are quitepopular also in North America. More in general,I can tell you that we are involved in all sectorsin Europe, while in South East Asia we aremainly focused on municipal solid waste treat-ment: in 2019 we are delivering the biggestplant ever built in Singapore, a creation we arevery proud of. China is a very interesting market,although right now there is not much demandfor dust extraction systems to sanitize air inworking environments, and the same in India.But the market is growing, mostly driven byforeign companies which have moved into thosecountries and a new "awareness" rising. Chinais a cultural challenge for the future: only now,after almost two years, we start collecting sig-nificant feedback".

What about woodworking?“We mainly work with big industrial groups, pri-ority customers we have been serving for thirtyyears. We have transferred the same strategyto other sectors, such as plasterboard, wherewe have developed special solutions exclusivelyfor our partners: we cannot offer them to anybodyelse, and in return, they commit to investingwith us. From a technological standpoint, it isreally a great opportunity, because you buildtotal mutual trust and very close collaboration,sharing specific knowledge that's valuable andessential to achieve excellent results. As I men-tioned, 50 percent of our current business isrepresented by waste processing, 40 percentby wood, the rest in other sectors. Wood will al-ways be part of our life, not only particleboardproduction and processing, but also the entireproduction process up to coating, which is aphase where we are deeply involved. We gen-erally deal with big plants and every day wehave a dozen teams working in different con-struction sites, plus three more companies thatexecute installations on our behalf…".

Alright, business is important, but you have cele-brated your fiftieth anniversary, haven't you?“Sure: we have made a big party to celebratewho we are, where we come from, the great jobdone by my father Pieralberto who enabled usto get so far… and he was a cheese producerwhen he was young! Then he was a worker inan air extraction company and, a couple ofyears later, he thought he could start his ownbusiness. Now, the two of us are continuing,my sister Paola and I, and we have threechildren each, an inestimable asset for the con-tinuation of a family enterprise …”.

And what about the next fifty years?“Working and investing, expertise, innovation,vision. These are the keywords for the future.Our facilities currently cover 27 thousandsquare meters, including 14 thousand squaremeter halls, and four thousand more are underconstruction. If we want to think about the future,considering that our plants are really cumber-some, we need much space. To carry on an in-creasingly vaste production program, we needfacilities and technologies to handle sheet metaland iron, as well as stainless steel, wear-proofmaterial, Pvc, polypropylene… We develop newplants every day, we try to respond to manynew opportunities we find all over the world.During the crisis years we moved from wood toecology, now we keep looking around, trying tounderstand what will drive our business in thefuture, where the most interesting investmentsshould be addresses. Take another example:last year we delivered an innovative air treatmentsystem to the world's first waste diaper cleaningplant built here in the Treviso area”.

So, you're optimistic..“Sure”.

by Luca Rossetti

www.mvtplant.com

The team of MVT - Mion Ventoltermica.

Suction and filtering system for dust.

Storage system for dust with 12,000 cubic meters silo.

Biological waste treatment system.

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