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is a company specialized in aluminium products, starting from its early days as a supplier of reflector components for local Italian companies to its present position as a supplier to all the world’s major lighting system producers. This specialisation has led the Group to become one of the world's biggest producers of components for the lighting technology, solar energy industries and decorative market.

Absorber technology
Specular technology

Absorber technology

Pre-handling of metal

High-performance absorber layers require very pure, highly reflective metal surfaces.
After all, there has to be as much infrared reflection as possible for the highly selective absorbers to have their typically extremely low emissions.
The laws of physics also stipulate that the mirror used cannot be of too high quality.
For TiNOX energy Cu, only the purest copper is used with a pre-cleaned surface.
Almeco-TiNOX only works with reliable premium suppliers for this product.
The aluminium used in TiNOX energy Al is electrochemically polished, anodized, and sealed by Almeco before being coated.

Multi-layer PVD coating

The coating is applied in high-tech systems in Munich and Bernburg.
In this process, multiple layers of metal and ceramics are applied to metal sheeting in a vacuum.
The environmentally friendly PVD (physical vapour deposition) technology is used, in which both electron beam vapour deposition and sputtering are applied.

Tinox layer

The whole process is computer-controlled and monitored throughout with optical sensors.
In addition, experienced quality engineers carefully visually inspect all absorbers.

Cutting and packaging

Almeco-TiNOX runs a number of service centres with cutting facilities so that absorbers can be tailored exactly to customer demand.
To protect the coating, the sheeting is supplied with foil or paper interlayer.
Almeco-TiNOX uses protective foils from the market leader especially developed for high-quality absorber surfaces.

Energy trap

Specular mirror technology

Vega energy Reflective Surfaces

Vega reflective surfaces combine very high levels of total and specular reflectance with excellent coating integrity, durability and U.V. resistance.
There are two classes of Vega energy mirror materials, Vega SP, for internal and weather protected applications, and Vega WR for external applications.
The basic technology for both types of product is the same. High reflectance layers are deposited on a substrate of mirror finished brightened and anodized high purity aluminium which provides a high quality chemically stable surface to give maximum durability to the product.
The PVD applied reflection enhancing system comprises a layer of 99.99% pure aluminium or silver surmounted by two transparent optical layers of alternate low and high refractive index which increase the total reflectance of the surface to over 95% or over 98% in the case of silver.
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Vega SP products

These materials are able to give reflection values of over 95% and 98% respectively on the vacuum coated strip and are used for solar reflectors in enclosed installations where they are protected from the weather.

Vega SP198 and Vega SP298 are used primarily in energy saving daylighting systems.

Reflectivity in the solar spectral range is maximised by carefully controlling the applied reflection enhancing layers to optimise their characteristics for this application.

Vega WR products

The Vega WR products extend the applications of Vega technology to long term external use in solar reflectors for all types of installations.

Working with a highly reflective base material of Vega SP29, the PVD layers are coated with a highly transparent, hard, weather resistant top coat which maintains a high reflectance performance (>93% TR) against the effects of abrasion and weathering of the mirror surface.

Vegaflex surfaces

The Vega WR293 is applied to a reinforced sandwich panel which can be precisely curved to form rigid parabolic reflectors for solar power generation.

The anodized aluminium substrate of the Vega WR293 is specially treated to ensure good bonding characteristics to the Doluflex panel which forms the structural element of the mirror.

Advantages of this system include light weight, lower installation costs, resistance against mechanical damage, excellent structural rigidity and long life.