Plants for resin treatment and renovation of stone slabs and strips

IonBreton renovation systems are the result of the technological and production merger between Breton and Ion Machines, ensuring a state-of-the-art and cost-effective product.

Ion Breton

Reasons why

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High productivity
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Compact dimensions
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Wide range
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HSD: high-speed front ventilation
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Uniform drying
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Complete insulation

IonBreton: the beginning of a new era

Reinforcement systems for natural stone slabs

A deep understanding of marble, combined with a profound knowledge of the specific needs of the professionals who process it.
That is the fundamental common point between Ion Machines and Breton.

Breton has entered into a partnership with the Turkish company Ion Machines, a well-established manufacturer of stone processing plants, to produce resin plants for marble and granite slabs.
The objective of this new company is one and the same: to manufacture technologically advanced plants with the best return on investment, at advantageous prices for the customer.

The synergy between the technological and construction know-how of Breton and that of Ion Machines ensures a state-of-the-art product, both for 'entry-level' solutions and for highly automated, high-productivity plants.
From cyclic oven towers, to multiple resin lines, to innovative robotic loading/unloading systems and much more.

Compared to the many alternatives on the market, IonBreton solutions have features that make them significantly better performing, more energy efficient, and with low operating and maintenance costs.

Materials

Marble

Granite

Processes

Industries

Technological highlights

Fully automatic slab-loading robot that works with suction cups and moves on an overhead structure.
The touchscreen on the control panel allows you to manage the suction cups so as to adapt the grip to the shape and nature of the slab to be handled. The vacuum generator is equipped with a safety device that maintains the grip in the event of a power failure. The cycles are programmable via a PLC and the robot's movements are controlled via encoders and inverters.

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Ahtapoth: automatic loading and unloading robot
Vatoz is an automatic unloading trolley with a tilting bed. The tilting platform is moved by hydraulic pistons via the hydraulic power unit on board the trolley. The slab is held and unloaded by two movable supports controlled by hydraulic pistons, which gently deposit it on the pallet.

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Vatoz: automatic unloading robot
A straddle carrier that transports the slabs unloaded by the automatic unloading robots. It's motorised and can move on rails.

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Slab trolley
Platform that changes the direction of the slab trolleys.

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Turntable for slab trolley
The Intellihot programme measures the temperature of the output slabs and optimally regulates the thermal regime of the oven chamber.

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Intellihot
The Headstart function enables the oven heating system to be activated before the start of the shift. When the shift starts, the oven has already reached the desired temperature and you can start working without loss of time. In this way, all slabs will be treated under the same conditions and there will be consistency in the process.

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Headstart
Up to 7 stone slab trays can be stacked in this unit to increase the time between the initial resin application phase and the subsequent check/retouch phase. After a certain amount of time, the epoxy resin passes to the gel phase - the incubation phase - and fresh epoxy resin is added to the slab to fill the cracks and voids that were previously revealed.

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Compensator for increased resin penetration time
This is the unit that dispenses epoxy resin component A and B in the desired weight ratio. The operator enters the required weight into the system via the touchscreen and the unit dispenses the epoxy components into a container via pneumatic valves. The weight is measured via a precision scale. There is a heatable chamber in the unit to prevent the components from freezing. Dosing by weight is far more accurate than volumetric systems and also eliminates the maintenance problems of mixers.

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Epoxy resin dosing unit