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PREVIEW: LIGNA (18-22 May) & INTERZUM (13-16 May)
Masterwood at Ligna
Masterwood Project 4005
CNC machining centre
ITALIAN CNC machinery manufacturer,
Masterwood Spa, has
confirmed its commitment to
the UK woodworking industry
by further developing its manufacturing
strategy and establishing
a new sales and service
operation.
“We have a long tradition of
supplying customers in the UK and
Ireland and our commitment to
helping companies achieve the
best possible production will continue
even during these challenging
economic times,” said Gianluca
Ticchi, director of Masterwood Spa.
“The sales and service team at
Masterwood GB, led by John
Cookson, Dave Kennard and Chris
Alexander, has long experience
and expertise in our machines.
With full support from Italy, the
new company will be working to
build upon our success by maintaining
and enhancing the top
class support to customers, while
also providing expert advice to
new customers and new markets
on the optimum machinery for
their applications and business
needs.
“In fact, within the next few
months we will be organising a
visit by a group of UK companies
to our factory in Rimini, so that we
can demonstrate technology to
help them improve their competitiveness
through increased productivity
and quality and reduced
manufacturing costs.”
Masterwood will launch major
new additions to its range of machinery
at Ligna in May, including
two five-axis CNC machining
centres — the Project 4000 for
rapid switching between door,
window, stair and cabinet production
and the Project 5000 dedicated
joinery centre, which can be
specified with a five-axis and
three-axis head working together.
“These machines are both born
from our refined strategy to specialise
in ‘bridge type’ construction,
in order to provide joinery
customers with the most robust
solution for machining solid
wood,” said Mr Ticchi.
“For the panel processing market,
advanced technology will also
be shown at Ligna with the debut
of the MW2142, designed for optimum
large sheet nesting applications.
For smaller volume customers,
we will also show the new
Project 310, which brings the increased
performance and versatility
of large diameter tooling to an
‘entry-level’ machine with a low
cost to the client.”
Masterwood says it will also be
announcing new developments in
software for its range of machines,
including an application of parametric
programming which is believed
to be unique.
Masterwood GB
www.masterwoodgb.com
Kündig at Ligna
WITH manufacturing plants in
both Switzerland and Germany,
Kündig will have on display at
Ligna possibly one of the most
comprehensive ranges of wide
belt sanding machines along with
a selection of the popular Basiq
single sided and Uniq double
sided edge sanding machines.
The display will include a broad
selection from the highly successful
Kündig Brilliant range whereby
at least one of the sanding heads is
set in an oblique position to offer
sanding in the ‘shear plane’ and
which now accounts for over half of
the wide belt machines produced
by Kündig. Machines on display will
include those suitable for calibration,
veneer sanding and lacquer
sanding along with a number of
special application machines.
As always, there is an open invitation
for any manufacturers looking
to achieve the utmost in
surface finishing to visit Kündig,
where the machines will be able to
be shown working and the advantages
of oblique sanding will be
demonstrated.
Kündig Ltd
Tel 0845 833 0565
Email info@kundig.co.uk
www.kundig.co.uk
REHAU innovation at Interzum
IN LINE with the overall theme of this year’s Interzum exhibition, ‘Create your visions’, REHAU is looking
to inspire visitors to the show with a range of innovative products, forward-looking solutions and new
designs for its furniture edgeband, solid surface and tambour door systems.
The RAUKANTEX Visions edgeband range is featured not only as ‘glass on a roll’ to complement contemporary
kit chen, bathroom and workplace designs, but also in two new options: shadow effect and patterned gloss. The
shadow effect is achieved by printing both the front and back of transparent edgeband, while the patterned
gloss effectively prints an edgeband pattern onto a background gloss, giving a distinctive but subtle effect.
REHAU’s sound-absorbing tambour system RAU -
VOLET Acoustic line will be exhibited for the first time
with the tambour door profile printed with a range of
colourful designs. These can be used to echo the overall
design scheme within an office or can be used to
highlight particular areas or zones.
REHAU is responding to the current trend for a
monochrome palette in furniture design with edgebands
from its Inspirations range in new decorative
black and white finishes, two step edging from its
RAUKANTEX Visions range and even its RAUVOLET
Vetroline glass tambour door system in high quality
black and subtle white. It is also demonstrating its ability
to respond quickly to future trends with the development
of innovative, new edgeband materials which
could be used to imitate natural elements, such as
cork, leather or even granite.
REHAU Ltd
Tel 01989 762732
Email Roshni.Patel@rehau.com ● www.rehau.co.uk
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