Custom cabinetry trends

Weima America will expand its South Carolina headquarters in order to accommodate increasing demand for shredding and briquetting.
Located just south of Charlotte, N.C., Weima’s headquarters currently houses two functional showrooms as well as the company’s parts and service department and administrative offices. Weima says the additional space will allow it to meet the growing market’s needs by stocking more shredding and briquetting machinery and providing extra room for on-site customer trials.
“Our customers are looking for immediate solutions to their size reduction problems,” says Madison Burt, Weima America’s vice president of sales. “We want to have the equipment available to meet those needs now.”
For more information or to schedule a trial, contact Weima America (www.weimaamerica.com) at +1.888.440-7170 or via email to info@weimaamerica.com.

IMA-Schelling welcomed manufacturers to its open house to demonstrate the latest panel technology.

On Nov. 10-11, machinery manufacturer IMA-Schelling welcomed more than 100 wood products manufacturers to its open house event in Raleigh, N.C.
Several new developments in panel technology were featured, along with six well-attended technical seminars held each day on subjects ranging from tooling and adhesives to edgebanding and software. The event showcased IMA’s new plasma edgebanding technology and Schelling’s latest Duplus cutting system. Koch Machinery, EuroSoft, Leuco Tool, Jowat Adhesives, Rehadu and Plasmatreat also took part in the event.
For more on IMA-Schelling’s products or seminars, please visit http://ima.schelling.com/.

More than 70 companies from 15 countries were briefed about innovative solid wood processing system technology and current trends during Weinig’s Solid Wood Days. The event was held at the Ohnemus Co., in Kappel-Grafenhausen, Germany.
Ohnemus has developed from a hardwood sawmill and trading company to become a manufacturer of high-quality sorted solid wood panels. The company has secured sustained competitiveness through adaptation to the market. With its refinement of cut pieces, Ohnemus was able to develop a customer base for staircases, furniture and interior fittings.
The concept of the Solid Wood Days combined an insight into running production at one of Weinig’s partners with a comprehensive section for presentations. The focus was on increasing added value. Optimisation of cutting to size of widths and lengths, wood optimisation through the introduction of scanners, wood saved using planing machines and intelligent gluing systems were the main topics. Information on Weinig’s fingerjointing systems was also included.
Weinig and Ohnemus collaborated on a state-of the-art linked solution from cutting to size through to the finished solid wood panel.

Optimized cutting to size of widths and lengths

Weinig’s event in Germany drew representatives from 70 companies.

At the start of the process there is a Maxicut 800 pre-cut saw, which removes major defects such as warps and splits in the cut wood. The operator can then turn the boards and inspect the underside with an automatic turning station before measuring the width. Using a laser controller with a joystick the operator can then measure the unfinished board either by marking the whole width of the board or marking various quality zones along the surface of the board. The division of board width and quality zones into the corresponding cutting widths is then done automatically by the TimberMax width optimisation system. Based on the cutlist and optimization parameters (timber yield, achievable prices, required numbers), it calculates the optimum division of the board for each rough board measured.
The rough board is divided by the ProfiRip KR 450 M multiplied buzz saw. The laminate pieces and waste are separated from the oddments via a discharge belt conveyor downstream from the ProfiRip. These returns are fed back into the machine before the width measuring stage, measured again and cut into widths.
The wood then travels through the chalk marking station to the optimizing cross-cut saw. The OptiCut 304 calculates the best division into lengths based on the best combination of the cutting list and optimisation parameters and cuts the lamellae to size.

High-tech panel production

From here the workpieces are processed using the new Weinig panel line and a hall specially extended and fitted with climate control. The whole process, from feeding in the boards cut to variable widths to the finished, sanded and stacked panel, runs nearly fully automatically with only two operators required. The first station is a Powermat 500 moulder with automatic pull-in, measurement of width, mobile spindle, automatic discharge for the various widths and transfer to the sorting station. The laminates are then sorted according to colour and application of images. The laminates are then collected automatically in the buffer before the ProfiPress T 3500 HF where they are glued automatically and pressed nearly free of offsets into panels. Very short pressing times are made by using high frequency technology. Since only the joints are heated, no stresses or warping are created in the wood, especially in hardwood in comparison to other gluing processes. After pressing the panels are fed individually into the grinder. The finished boards are then stacked on pallets using vacuum technology. For more information see www.weinig.com. 

Stiles demonstrated new finishing and sanding equipment for attendees at its grand opening event.

Stiles Machinery held a grand opening event for its newly launched Stiles Finishing Technologies in October, where the company displayed its latest innovations in finishing and sanding equipment.
The three-day event took place at the company’s 10,000-square-foot finishing lab in High Point, N.C. Stiles held live machine demonstrations as well as more than a dozen educational seminars on finishing and surface preparation technologies, such as digital imaging processes, sanding application recipes, waterborne coating developments and application techniques.
Some of the highlighted exhibitions included flat panel demonstrations on the Burkle E.a.sy Roll Coating line, staining maple doors with the Makor Q-One spray machine and digital imaging on the Durst RHO 900 UV inkjet printer.
Another highlight of the event was the first-ever North American unveiling of the 2011 Innovation Award recipient from the international Ligna exhibition show: the Venjakob Perfect Spray machine. The Venjakob received the award for its automated color management system that allows colors to be changed during process within seconds.

Stiles Machinery will show its finishing technologies at a grand opening event at the company’s High Point, N.C., regional showroom.
The event, taking place Oct. 4-6, will showcase the company’s range of surface technologies, finishing and sanding equipment. The grand opening event for Stiles will also include educational sessions and machine demonstrations.
Visit www.stilesmachinery.com/grandopening for more information and to register.

In July, Biesse attended AWFS Fair 2011 in Las Vegas, with product experts and technicians on hand to demonstrate the company’s latest woodworking technologies.

Biesse displayed its newest technologies at AWFS Fair in July.

Among products displayed by Biesse were the Klever 1530 CNC gantry working center for wood panel processing, the EKO 902 boring and inserting machine, and the Viet S3 widebelt sander. The company was also presented with the Sequoia Award for Product Innovation in Components for the Viet HP sanding pad.

An auction website, MachineryMax.com, recently launched, allowing users to bid on industrial woodworking machinery.
The site lets users bid on featured machines, with photos, machine descriptions, current bid amount and the auction’s end date.