ITALIANPOOLTECHNOLOGY.COM 2017-2018 ITALIANPOOLTECHNOLOGY THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ITALIAN POOL & SPA INDUSTRY 5 th EDITION Products, accessories, components, building systems, installation technologies, treating systems and equipments EDITION TH 5 The pool in Italy is an undeniable element of the wellness services provided by prestigious hotel chains, thermal centers, spas, and resorts. The Italian pool market is meant to be dynamic and expanding not only in the commercial sense but also in the residential one thanks to the evolution of building techniques, which allow very original tailor-made solutions with no limit to the imagination in pool design. Since Italy boasts lots of first-class companies that deserve to be recognized all over the world, as they offer top-quality products and technologies, Italian Pool Technology wants to enhance these Italian organizations that represent the excellence in the pool and spa market in many areas: products and accessories, components, building systems, installation technologies, treating solutions, equipment and anything useful to build the pool and make it work perfectly. Italian Pool Technology is a guide with easy-to-read data sheets. Each data sheet includes the information that best describe the company and its products, its history, vision, and mission. Company details are clearly reported with address, telephone and website so that readers can easily contact the company. Moreover, POOL TECHNOLOGY ITALIAN this paper magazine is supported by the digital version in PDF, with active links to the companies’ contacts, ready to be downloaded from the website www.italianpooltechnology.com, where you can also sign in to periodical newsletters to be constantly updated and receive the digital copy of the magazine as soon as it’s published, right on your device. THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ITALIAN POOL & SPA INDUSTRY 2017 2018 ED. COMPLIMENTARY COPY follow us on facebook 21-22-23 February 2018 Bologna Fair District, South Entrance - Moro (pav. 33) For its 10th edition ForumPiscine comes back with Gallery version and chooses hall 33 of Bologna Exhibition Center, to make room for international congress and expo. From Wednesday 21st to Friday 23rd February 2018 a world of news, initiatives, in-depht meetings for pools and spas. ForumPiscine, let the energy flow. absolutgroup.it 10° 2008-2018 10th Pool & Spa Expo and International Congress ion In ovat a nn whirlwind of i it’s a project by under the patronage in cooperation with in conjunction with www.forumpiscine.it Sales of stands and scientific secretary: EDITRICE IL CAMPO Srl - tel. +39 051 255544 - fax +39 051 255360 - [email protected] Organizing secretary and press office: ABSOLUT events&communication - tel. +39 051 272523 - fax +39 051 272508 follow us on facebook 21-22-23 February 2018 Bologna Fair District, South Entrance - Moro (pav. 33) For its 10th edition ForumPiscine comes back with Gallery version and chooses hall 33 of Bologna Exhibition Center, to make room for international congress and expo. From Wednesday 21st to Friday 23rd February 2018 a world of news, initiatives, in-depht meetings for pools and spas. ForumPiscine, let the energy flow. absolutgroup.it 10° 2008-2018 10th Pool & Spa Expo and International Congress ion In ovat a nn whirlwind of i it’s a project by under the patronage in cooperation with in conjunction with www.forumpiscine.it Sales of stands and scientific secretary: EDITRICE IL CAMPO Srl - tel. +39 051 255544 - fax +39 051 255360 - [email protected] Organizing secretary and press office: ABSOLUT events&communication - tel. +39 051 272523 - fax +39 051 272508 ITALIANPOOLTECHNOLOGY.COM ITALIANPOOLTECHNOLOGY THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ITALIAN POOL & SPA INDUSTRY 5 th EDITION Products, accessories, components, building systems, installation technologies, treating systems and equipments ITALIAN POOL TECHNOLOGY was created to promote on the world market Italian products for pools and spas, to facilitate contacts between international companies and Italian organizations. This paper magazine is supported by the digital version in PDF, with active links to the companies’ contacts, ready to be downloaded from www.italianpooltechnology.com, where you can also subscribe to our periodical newsletters to be regularly updated and to receive the digital copy of the magazine as soon as it’s published, right on your devices. In its 2017th edition, Italian Pool Technology presents the latest news from the Italian pool’s market and design, with a special section dedicated to the mini-pools, that in the past few years became more and more popular, and a riveting review about the winners of the Italian Pool Award 2017. But the protagonists of Italian Pool Technology are the Italian companies, presented with the information that best describe them and their products, history, vision and mission. [ On the front page: FM Studio, photo Matteo Mottari ] 2 SUMMARY 2017 2018 ED. 4 POOL MARKET AND STYLE IN ITALY 42 C.P.A. Many factors create great expectations for the italian Manufacturing of components for pools pool market, which is meant to be dynamic and growing both in the residential and commercial. 44 CANALE ANTONIO Special work in fiberglass 8 MINI POOLS, WHEN ‘SMALL’ MEANS COMFORT AND BEAUTY 46 DEPA Small, fashionable and equipped with every comfort. Swimming pool grates and accessories Mini-pools are getting more and more popular among the worldwide customers. 48 HIDEW Swimming pool dehumidifiers 18 THE WINNERS OF THE ITALIAN POOL AWARD 2017 50 HYDRORIDER Created by Piscine Oggi magazine, year after year the Aquatic professional equipment production Italian Pool Award celebrates, at ForumPiscine, the Italian companies’ excellence and quality standards in 52 NATURAL POOLS the design and manufacturing of swimming pools. Design and construction of pools 32 FORUMPISCINE 54 POLIMPIANTI International Pool & Spa Expo and Congress Manufacturer of pool covers 34 ACQUAPARK 56 WATER FULL SERVICES Waterslides and water parks General contractor 36 AQQUATIX 58 CUOGHI Pool equipment production Swimming pool dehumidifiers 38 BARCHEMICALS GROUP 58 FITT Chemical products for water treatment Solutions for passage and delivery of fluids 40 BLUE POOL BY GRAMAGLIA 60 DIRECTORY Pool construction A quality selection of italian companies ITALIAN POOL TECHNOLOGY Copyright © all rights reserved. № 5 Edition - 2017/2018 It is forbidden to partially or fully reproduce powered by PISCINE OGGI magazine Founded by Franco Maestrami articles, photographs and designs published in ISSN: 0390-3230 Italian Pool Technology, by any means, without To contact the editorial staff: Editorial directors: expressed authority from the editor. Names, [email protected] Federico Maestrami, companies and prices that are eventually Editor in chief Roberto Maestrami published are reported without responsibility, Federico Maestrami Production and accounts: as pure informative right and as a service to the Editorial staff: Via Amendola 11 - 40121 bologna reader. The editor doesn’t respond to expressed Rita Cesarini, Annalisa Dall’Oca, Davide Venturi Tel: +39 051255544 - Fax: +39 051255360 opinions by authors in the published articles. Graphic design, print layout & premedia: E-mail: [email protected] Paolo D’Andrea www.sportindustry.com Printing: www.fitnesstrend.com MIG moderna industrie grafiche www.forumpiscine.it - www.forumclub.it 3 POOL MARKET AND STYLE IN ITALY Many factors create great expectations for the Italian pool market, which is meant to be dynamic and growing both in the residential and commercial ↑ 2017 has been a year of growth and financial development for Italy. [ Doc. Indalo ] THE POOL MARKET IN ITALY: WHAT’S NEW he key word is: economic recovery. 2017 has been a market is steadly and surely growing, and while expanding, T year of growth and financial development for Italy, renews itself. With an eye to design and new technologies, that recorded, during the first trimester a 1.3% increase in and a newfound interest for environment and nature, the consumption, the highest since 1999. The economic crisis Made in Italy swimming pool is less and less a luxury ac- looks, finally, in the past, expenditure is rising, and it’s the cessory, while becoming more often than not a place for market, including the swimming pool market, both public aggregation, sports, and entertainment. A metamorpho- and private, that’s deriving the greatest benefit from it. Re- sis encouraged by the last State-operated regulatory ac- structuring operations, new facilities, an increase in con- tion, that recently introduced bureaucratic simplifications sumer demand for private swimming pools to garnish do- that facilitate the process of obtaining building permits mestic gardens with a space dedicated to water: the Italian and landscape authorization. 4 IPT 2017-2018 ↓ In 2017 Italy recorded a 1.3% increase in consumption, the highest since 1999. SAVING WATER IS [ Doc. Underwaterfantasy ] POSSIBLE: THE SELF- SUFFICIENT POOL t a time when waste of natural re- A sources has become an interna- tional dilemma, the pool industry can and must make its contribution to the safeguard of our planet. That’s the reason why Piscine Oggi and ForumP- iscine 2018 launched a campaign in collaboration with Assopiscine: the self-sufficient pool. A concept that’s more than a model for a swimming pool that recovers water – like rain- water, for example – to limit waste. It’s a choice, to preserve our water re- sources for they aren’t boundless. The approach is simple, and not too ex- pensive, it just takes