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2 No. 1 • February 2020

EDITORIAL 

Making life easier... 

Eric Schäfer 

Editor 

... that's what manufacturers of woodworking 

and processing machines and tools want to 

offer their customers in industry and trade. With 

digital service concepts that are often just a fingertip 

away and new solutions for production in 

the digital age. Smart machines and apps in form 

of digital assistants will find their way into craft 

businesses as well as into the large manufacturers 

in the furniture sector. The assistants help, for 

example, for cutting or later for assembly. There 

is hardly a new machine that is not automated. 

Visualization, simple operation by using touch displays 

and apps make work and life easier in many 

areas for the user. 

Read this WIN issue to get to know some examples 

of how users all over the world are using 

the proper machines and applications to make 

their work more productive and efficient. 

This issue also gives you a closer look at the 

International Woodworking Fair (IWF) 2020 in 

Atlanta. We will not only be present in Atlanta in 

August, but we will also give you first insights of 

what to expect at the IWF, beginning page 6. 

You can also get first impression of the latest 

décor and surface finishes presented at ZOW and 

SICAM. And we will also take you on a journey 

through the world of fragrances. Just as every fragrance 

can be associated with a colour, this issue 

of your WiN is once again a colourful bouquet of 

interesting information. Hopefully some of this will 

make your working life easier! 

Sincerely, 

Eric Schäfer 

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Making life easier... 3 

COVER A wide variety of new product and technology introductions 6 

NEWS 8 

TOOLS 

The 2.0 generation of panel sizing circular saw blades - 

now up to 730 mm! 26 

DP panel sizing saw blades with topcoat, extra long edge lives 27 

Clamping nuts ESB and ESD ‐ an exiting DUO 27 


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Plant concept for suction based on dedusters in live operation 10 

Focus on energy efficiency and noise reduction 11 



Generating energy from wood waste 12 

World premieres to inspire visitors 13 

“Solutions in New Dimensions” with a view to the 

handicrafts sector 14 


Compact sanding machines on display 15 

PUR granulate with hazard-free labelling for edgebanding 15 

Integrated process solutions for all woodworking requirements 16 

Smartaction - compact, connected, accessible 17 

Höcker Polytechnik presents itself at Holz-Handwerk 2020 18 

Wood surfaces: innovative products with added value 

for craftsmen 18 

COMPANIES 

Moulded wood specialist Becker now offers furniture components 

made of solid wood 19 

DIEFFENBACHER defies economic slowdown 20 

New guns available to improve user experience 20 

Transparent disclosure of material contents 21 

Customised workpiece coating to customer order 21 

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The invisible hinge 22 

MACHINING TECHNOLOGY 

Precision grip guarantees a clean cut 23 

Optimized solution for door assembling 23 

The best in softforming for every kind of profile 24 

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Value of wood residuals increased tenfold 28 

Sssshhhh! 30 

Circular saw blades carve out a path for India’s economic boom 32 

Automated veneer handling - sheet by sheet 33 

DECORS 

Urban Styles 34 

Ideal location, perfect timing 35 

SURFACES 

A journey through the world of scents 36 

New product thanks to digital printing: Digital staining 38 

EVENTS 

Focus Components area 39 

Giampiero Mauri innovation center trade day 39 

11th European TMT Workshop 39 

FAIRS 2020 

ZOW 40 

INDIAWOOD 40 

FIMMA ‐ Maderalia 40 

PaintExpo 41 

Xylexpo 41 

Guide to Products and Manufacturers 42 

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IWF 2020 

A wide variety of new product and technology introductions 

When the 2020 edition of The International Woodworking Fair (IWF) opens its 

doors August 25 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, attendees 

from across the globe will discover all that’s new and next in North America’s 

premier wood products manufacturing event. 

IWF 2020 takes place on a new Tuesday to 

Friday show schedule with an unmatched presentation 

of the industry’s newest technology powering 

machinery, components, materials, trends, 

thought leadership and learning. It is North 

America’s largest and most complete woodworking 

trade event and conference and a global product 

resource showcasing the world’s top manufacturers. 

“At IWF 2020, the global woodworking 

community comes together to experience the 

newest innovations in manufacturing technology, 

product design, learning, networking and emerging 

sectors,” says Brian Donahue, Chairman of the 

IWF 2020 Show and President of Safety Speed 

Manufacturing, Ham Lake, MN. “IWF is the industry’s 

must-attend show,” notes Donahue. 

The 2020 show footprint will be IWF’s largest, 

using three buildings - Congress Center Halls A, B 

and C - for the first time since 2008. Additionally, 

a brand-new BC Exhibit Hall expansion will hold 

even more exhibits. The show is also “taller”, with 

height restrictions changed to allow more twostory 

displays. IWF’s largest-ever exhibitor mix will 

give attendees a wide variety of new product and 

technology introductions representing product design 

advances across virtually every aspect of the 

woodworking industry, from millwork and flooring 

to furniture and cabinetry. 

Returning to IWF for its second showing will be 

the Digital Print & Decorative Surfaces Showcase 

which will feature all types of digital print applica- 


tions and related products in the wood products 

arena such as inkjet or other imaging and finishing 

technologies to stain and decorate decor papers 

and engineered wood, as well as other types 

of panel products. 

New developments seen at LIGNA 2019 that 

incorporate imaging, digital texturization and relief 

images on wood surfaces are likely to be presented 

at IWF 2020. The show’s August 25-28 schedule 

has also been adjusted to open on Tuesday 

and close on Friday (replacing the Wednesday- 

Saturday pattern from previous years). Show hours 

continue 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (8:30 - 2:00 p.m. 

Friday). Accompanying the change in IWF’s building 

footprint comes a relocation of attendee registration 

as well. It will now be relocated at the exhibit 

hall floor in Building A. This move from the 

Entrance lobby, where registration has been for 

over 20 years, is intended to expedite traffic flow 

and enhance the attendees‘ arrival and show entry 

experience. Another big change is show badges: 

instead of being mailed in advance, attendee 

show badges and other credentials will be printed 

onsite in the registration areas at the show. This 

will also aid the traffic flow, reducing bottlenecks 

and wait times for visitors, who can then move directly 

onto the show floor. 

IWF’s Education Program is the most comprehensive 

of any wood industry event, with full-day 

symposiums on Monday, August 24 - the day prior 

to the exposition floor opening - with topics including 

lean manufacturing, closets, digital printing 

on wood and more to come. General sessions 

are scheduled at various times in the mornings and 

afternoons Tuesday - Thursday. 

These sessions will run 1 to 2.5 hours each 

during the show and are grouped by tracks: 

Business Management; Manufacturing & Design; 

Marketing & Business Development; Workforce 

Maintenance & Organizational Culture and New 

Business Sectors. New this year: a day-long 

Finishing Symposium scheduled for Wednesday, 

August 26. It will be led by industry expert 

Joe Baggett, whose Innovative Wood Process 

Solutions advises wood manufacturing firms and 

guides them in major capital investments. Baggett 

is also a highly popular blogger for IWF Network 

News. In conjunction with IWF 2020, show management 

has created two new programs aimed at 

strengthening the industry and providing networking 

opportunities to students and job seekers. 

With the Educators Program (for students 

and instructors) and the Boomerang Program 

(for veterans and displaced workers), IWF makes 

available to students free online access to all video 

of the prior IWF education sessions. 

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New Book shows how the EU can reduce emissions while increasing output 

Timber is essential to Building a zero-carbon Bio-economy 

CEI-Bois, the European Confederation of the 

Woodworking Industries, is calling on politicians 

to put wood at the centre of plans to reduce emissions 

and achieve zero carbon targets. 

In its recently published book, “Wood: Building 

the Bioeconomy”, CEI-Bois shows how the EU can 

reduce emissions by using low carbon, renewable, 

biological alternatives such as timber over high carbon 

materials such as concrete, steel and plastic. 

The publication goes on to show that this 

would be good not only for the climate but also 

for the economy as a whole. Increasing the use 

of European wood-based products in global construction, 

textile and plastics markets, could generate 

as much as 60 billion euros of revenue. “If 

we are to restore balance in the atmosphere, we 

need to reduce emissions in the first place, while 

also increasing the capacity of the global carbon 

sink” said Patrizio Antonicoli, Secretary General of 

CEI-Bois. 

“Forests and timber are part of both solutions, 

absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and storing 

it as wood. Timber harvested from the forests 

can be turned into high-value products for construction 

using only a fraction of the energy and 

carbon that other materials would need.” 

Wood, Building the Bioeconomy aims to exhibit 

the inherent advantages of using wood. “The 

more Governments across the continent can support 

and invest in wood, the more valuable this 

bioeconomy can become, helping to reverse the 

adverse climate and environmental impacts of human 

activity and meet our obligations under the 

Paris agreement.” 

www.cei-bois.org 

Club du Bois organisers call European policy makers to explore the 

full potential of one of the most climate positive EU manufacturing 

sectors: the Woodworking Industry 

The European Confederation of Woodworking 

Industries (CEI-Bois), the European Organisation 

of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) and the European 

Panel Federation (EPF), organised the 8th edition 

of the Club du Bois, under the chairwomanship of 

MEP Mrs Maria Noichl, on 8 January 2020, at the 

Brussels premises of the European Parliament. 

The event gathered an important number of 

MEPs, industrialists and experts from the wood 

manufacturing and forest-based family, offering 

them the opportunity to learn about the priorities 

of the European Woodworking Industries for 

the term 2019-2024. The evening was opened 

by a welcoming speech from MEP Mrs Maria 

Noichl and followed by three presentations from 

EPF Chairman, Dr Paolo Fantoni, EOS Chairman, 

Mr Sampsa Auvinen and by CEI-Bois Board of 

Directors Member, Mr Keith Fryer. 

The Woodworking Industry lies at the heart 

of the circular bioeconomy providing a sustainable 

and carbon neutral product to be used in the 

construction sector and as everyday material. By 

using wood, legally harvested from sustainably 

managed forests, Europe can achieve several of 

the objectives presented in the recently adopted 

”The European Green Deal” and become the 

world’s first climate neutral continent by 2050. 

Dr Paolo Fantoni highlighted the role that 

wood-based panels can play in the ”renovation 

wave”, reminding of their sustainability, resource 

efficiency and natural carbon storage properties. 

Panels are a model example of the Circular 

Economy thanks to the industry’s innovative approach 

of turning one industry’s waste into another 

sector’s product, with 40 % of typical particleboard 

today coming from recovered (recycled) 

waste wood. EPF is excited to work with universities 

and the EU institutions to ensure that future 

generations are trained and skilled in working 

with wood. Given their proprieties and characteristics, 

wood-based panels are model examples 

of both the Circular Economy and the Green 

Deal. ”Panels can break the old model of economic 

progress or environmental protection. 

Instead we can offer new industrial growth with 

environmental (and climate) benefits” commented 

Dr Fantoni. 

Mr Sampsa Auvinen described the raw material 

supply question as the most important issue affecting 

the development of the primary mechanical 

wood industry. Securing raw material supply 

at affordable prices and in a predictable way is 

a key factor to maintain competitiveness of the 

European sawmill industry. Mr Auvinen called for 

an EU resource management system aiming to establish 

a harmonised knowledge-based information 

on European forests resources, material flows 

and stock. The system should also take into consideration 

frequency of natural disturbances and 

the impact on wood supply. Mr Auvinen recalled 

the central role of the European sawmill industry 

in the forest industry: making up two thirds of the 

forest owners’ incomes, the sawmill industry plays 

a key role in motivating forest owners to sustainably 

manage their forests and supply wood raw 

material to the forest industry. ”A healthy sawmill 

industry is thus vital for the forest industry and the 

forest-based industries alike” he added. 

Mr Keith Fryer presented the European 

Woodworking Industries’ manifesto for the 

EU term 2019-2024, which illustrates how the 

European Woodworking Industry can help the EU 

to reach its key goals, such as the reduction of 

GHG emissions in line with the Paris Agreement 

and the deployment of an EU circular Bioeconomy, 

while ensuring jobs creation and employment stability. 

The manifesto focuses on 6 priorities - Wood 

Availability and Sustainability, Circular Bioeconomy, 

Competitiveness of Wood in Construction, Free but 

Fair Trade, Research & Innovation and Industrial 

Relations & Social Affairs - and gives an overview 

of the potential and needs of the sector. ”The 

European Woodworking sector sits at the heart 

of the European circular Bioeconomy and is a key 

driver for jobs and growth” Mr Fryer concluded. 

The European Woodworking Industry can 

successfully achieve socially fair economic 

growth while reducing pollution and harm to 

the environment. This is why the European policies, 

such as the forthcoming Industrial Strategy 

and new Circular Economy Action Plan, to name 

a few, should explore the full potential of one of 

the most climate positive European manufacturing 

sectors. 

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“proven concept” convinced: Metro orders new forming and press line 

made by Siempelkamp 

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On good new partnership: At the end of 

October, Metro, one of Thailand’s leading woodbased 

panel producers, confirmed its commitment 

to Siempelkamp with an order for a new 

forming and press line for an MDF plant at the 

Kanchanburi site. 

This order continues a long-standing business 

relationship under new auspices: Metro President 

Chatchai Piyasombatkul and Christoph Michel, 

CEO Siempelkamp Group, paved the way for a new 

joint project - the replacement of a Küsters forming 

and press line by a new Siempelkamp forming 

and press line for MDF with an 8’ wide ContiRoll ® 

Generation 9. The press is equipped with a thinand 

lightboard package. At 2,000 mm/s, the press 

is designed for thin boards produced at high speed. 

This is where the retrofit option for the Siempelkamp 

Compactor comes into play, protecting the steel 

belts in the press and enabling plant operators to 

achieve significant increases in capacity and quality, 

especially for the production of thin MDF boards. 

The objectives of Metro, founded in the 1950s, 

include state-of-the-art technology and the supply 

of world-class quality products. In 2002 the company 

placed its first order with Siempelkamp and 

in 2009 Metro placed an order for the first complete 

Siempelkamp particleboard plant, which produces 

particleboard at the Nonthaburi site near 

Bangkok. The current order continues this trusting 

business relationship. ”We are proud to set a 

new, important milestone in the cooperation between 

Metro and Siempelkamp with this order - 

and to demonstrate once again with our established 

press concept on which level we are able 

to support our customers“, says Christoph Michel. 

www.siempelkamp.com 

Pfleiderer Group S.A. confirms Zbigniew Prokopowicz as CEO 

Pfleiderer Group S.A. (“Pfleiderer”), a leading 

European manufacturer of wood-based products 

for furniture, interior design, and construction, 

announced in October 2019 that 

Zbigniew Prokopowicz, who has been acting 

as interim CEO since June 1, 2019, will lead 

the company as a duly appointed CEO subject 

to his appointment by the Supervisory Board. 

Zbigniew Prokopowicz is already very familiar 

with the company. He has been a member of the 

Supervisory Board since February 2016 and its 

Chairman since June 2016. Miguel Kohlmann, 

who has supported the Supervisory Board in an 

advisory capacity since May 2018, will become 

the new Chairman of Pfleiderer‘s Supervisory 

Board once appointed by the General Meeting. 

Following a successful public tender offer 

over the summer, investment funds advised 

by Strategic Value Partners LLC and its affiliates, 

a global investment firm, together with 

Luxembourg investor Atlantik S.A. now control 

100 % of Pfleiderer. As part of the majority takeover 

and subject to obtaining consent from the 

Polish Financial Supervision Authority Pfleiderer 

will be delisted from the Warsaw Stock Exchange 

and will therefore be managed privately going 

forward. 

www.pfleiderer.com 

SPÄNEX GmbH 

Luft-, Energie- und Umwelttechnik 

Visit us at the Holz-Handwerk in Nuremberg 

18. - 21.03.2020 - hall 9, no. 305 

safe clean efficient 

Dedusting 

Conveying Filtering Briquetting 

Varnishing Crushing Parts Control units 

SPÄNEX GmbH 

Luft-, Energie- und Umwelttechnik 

Otto-Brenner-Straße 6 

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Holz-Handwerk is celebrating an anniversary this year with the 20th event. Nuremberg is now one of the most important trade fairs in the 

industry and proves the attractiveness of this exhibition with more than 100,000 visitors. SPÄNEX, the specialist for extraction and briquetting 

systems, will again be in direct neighbourhood to the WEINIG Group in hall 9, booth no. 305, presenting its innovations and product improvements 

in the fields of suction, conveying, filtering, dedusting, briquetting, painting, controlling and shredding. Moreover, a suction system will 

be presented in live operation with a total air capacity of 50,000 m³/h, with which the woodworking machines exhibited and demonstrated 

by the WEINIG Group will be sucked off. 


started up depending on the accumulated amount 

of chips. The briquetting capacities of the machines 

range from 70 to 250 kg/h (Fig. 2). The customers 

can thus get an impression of the operation 

of the machines and the excellent briquette quality 

in live operation. 

Fig. 1 

SPÄNEX uses the fair to show a broad public 

as novelty a plant concept for suction based 

on dedusters in live operation. Two stations each 

with two dust extractors are installed and operated, 

whereby each dust extractor provides a maximum 

air capacity of 10,000 m³/h. On the exhibition 

stand of the WEINIG Group another deduster 

(Fig. 1) with a maximum air capacity of 10,000 

m³/h will be placed, so that the total volume flow 

sums up to 50,000 m³/h. 

The background of the new development are 

the customer’s requirement profiles, where due to 

local conditions the filter systems cannot be installed 

outside the buildings as required by the 

regulations. The alternative solution, which has 

been tried and tested in practice, of arranging the 

filter system indoors and equipping it with flameless 

pressure relief devices, is also not feasible in 

some cases for structural reasons, so that another 

solution had to be found. SPÄNEX has therefore 

developed this plant concept based on dust 

collectors. 

All five displayed dust extractors will be operated 

according to actual demand. This means, that 

the required volume flow depends on the woodworking 

machines in operation. Practical experience 

has shown that this demand-based operation 

leads to considerable energy savings compared to 

conventional system technology. 

Briquetting presses are arranged below the 

three deduster stations, which are automatically 

The deduster-briquetting press units are 

equipped with a compact control unit, so that only 

one control unit is required for the deduster and 

the briquetting press. Further advantages of this 

solution are: 

• all sensors and actuators are connected to the 

PLC (Siemens S7-1200) via plug connections 

(IO-Link-Profinet system) 

• all data can be transferred for further processing 

to existing process control systems of the 

customer and optional remote monitoring is 

possible. 

Due to the great demand, the dust extractor 

(Fig. 3) for the extraction of manual work machines 

and workplaces, which was shown as a 

novelty at the last LIGNA in Hanover, will also be 

exhibited. It is characterized by a particularly high 

suction pressure of up to 10,000 Pa. The use of energy-saving 

IE3 class motors combined with a frequency 

converter is standard. The other advanta_ 

ges of this series are: 

• the compactness, 

• the low noise emission, 

• the complete control unit, 

• the user-friendliness and, 

• the extensive accessories. 

Fig. 2 

The exhibition program shown in the demonstration 

operation is completed by a single-shaft 

shredder. 

It is expected that projects concerning paint 

mist extraction will also be questioned at the 

fair. The extensive product range of SPÄNEX (dry 

spray walls, underfloor extraction, extraction tables, 

grinding stands and cabins) allows a plant 

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NESTRO ® Lufttechnik GmbH is presenting itself on a base area of more than 100 m 2 on stand no. 309 right at the centre of hall 10.0. 

The company is exhibiting its filter technology in live operation and looks forward to providing extraction for all processing machines in the 

“HOMAG City” on the Stand of HOMAG again. 


tre, a NE 300 P with integrated briquette press 

NBP C150 is responsible for a group of edge banding 

machines and a NE 160 P for a CNC drilling 

and dowel inserting maschine. 

NESTRO ® Deduster NE 300 P with integrated briquetting press NBP. 

All dedusters from NESTRO ® can be used in inside 

installation to extract wooden dust and wood 

shavings (German BG certification H3), but also to 

extract plastic, leather, paper or other industrial 

dust. The operating air volume of these compact 

devices reaches from 2,300 to 9,500 m 3 /h. Since 

NESTRO ® dedusters work in clean gas operation ‐ 

the fan comes after the filter - highest energy efficiencies 

and absolute dust tightness are guaran- 

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get to the fan impeller. The residual dust content 

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NESTRO ® considers itself a market leader for 

the fields of dust, chip and spray mist extraction in 

woodworking / the wood industry offering complete 

system solutions since more than 40 years 

now. The company rises to the growing challenges 

of energy efficiency and noise reduction with competent, 

comprehensive consulting services and 

suitable technology. Considerable energy savings 

can be realised on the system side by using highly 

efficient fans, frequency converters for fan control, 

high efficiency motors (IE3, IE4) and recirculating 

air instead of exhaust air systems, as well 

as by using the return air for heating or air conditioning. 

Subsidies are available in some countries 

that make even the retrofitting of existing systems 

interesting - for example to change raw gas into 

clean gas systems. Noise emissions can also be 

drastically reduced through optimum product and 

system design as well as various insulation measures. 

With NESTRO ® , trade fair visitors have the 

opportunity to experience and evaluate many applications 

in live operation. 

The Compact System for Craftsmen 

On a compact space of only 12 m 2 NESTRO ® 

shows how you make an energetically superb biofuel 

in the form of briquets from wood waste. In 

contrast to split logs wood briquettes have a constant 

density and flame-clean especially smoothly 

and controlled. They almost leave no ash. The introduced 

system consists of a shredder and a mobile 

deduster with a fully integrated briquetting 

press. The briquettes made have a diameter of 

60 cm and fit for storage at any dry place. 

Filter House NFHSU 11/11-20 w/ 

Briquetting Press 

The NESTRO ® clean-gas filter house allows Y 

large filter areas to fit in the tightest of spaces and 

material accumulated of 23 m 3 CM 

to be stored temporarily 

through the day. This system features a fil- 

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ter area of 175 m 2 . It allows visitors to experience CY 

live how wood chips and wood dust are filtered, 

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collected and processed into briquettes with a diameter 

of 50 mm. NBP briquetting presses reduce 

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the storage volumes and improve storage and 

transport capabilities. 

Three Dedusters in an Endurance Test 

at HOMAG 

Moreover, three dedusters type NE provide 

dust free air on the stand space of the HOMAG 

group. A NE 350 P extracts a CNC machining cen- 

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Less energy, more power! 

Energy-efficient filtration plants 

for the woodworking industry. 

MultiStar filtration plant 

Made by Höcker Polytechnik 

▪ filtration 

▪ dedusting 

▪ briquetting 

▪ recycling 

▪ varnishing 

Höcker Polytechnik GmbH 

Borgloher Str. 1 ▪ 49176 Hilter a.T.W. 

Germany ▪ Mail info@hpt.net 

Fon +49 5409 405 0 

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WEIMA is pleased to exhibit at Holz-Handwerk 2020, the German trade show for machine technology, equipment and supplies for wood 

crafts in Nuremberg. The shredding specialist from Ilsfeld will be presenting its broad product portfolio including technical machine updates. 

The focus at this show will be on the efficient use of shredders and briquette presses for the processing and recycling of wood materials of 

all kinds for heat generation. 


The classic shredder: 

WEIMA WL 4 ‐ sturdy and lowmaintenance 

design 

WEIMA WL 1500 single-shaft shredder 

WEIMA C 150 briquette press 

At the Holz-Handwerk 2020 WEIMA will 

have its shredders and briquette presses on display 

in a 100 square meter booth. One of these 

machines is the tried and true WL 4 single-shaft 

shredder. This shredder model is already in successful 

operation in thousands of small and medium-sized 

companies worldwide. This machine 

boasts a working width of 600 mm, a rotor diameter 

of 252 mm with two rows of cutting knives, 

segmented floor guide and up to 18.5 kW drive 

power. This ensures that wood waste of all kinds 

can be easily shredded, whether it’s hardwood, 

softwood, plywood, used waste wood or OSB 

and MDF residuals. 

More space for large volumes: 

WEIMA WL 1500: High throughput for 

universal use 

The WL 1500 single-shaft shredder wins bestall-around 

in the WEIMA product range. It has a 

working width of 1,500 mm, a rotor diameter of 

370 mm and up to 90 kW drive power. This wood 

shredder thus guarantees high throughput as well 

as flexibility in day-to-day use. 

A particular visual highlight is the logspacer 

hopper. Its innovative design not only increases 

the filling volume, but also effectively prevents 

the formation of material build-up or bridging. 

Depending on the material that’s being shredded, 

the shredder can be equipped with a V or F rotor 

for most efficient size reduction. 

The WL 1500 also has a conveyor belt section 

that simplifies the discharge of the shredded 

wood. The machine can be employed as a standalone 

solution or as part of a production line. 

The shredder range is completed by the 

WEIMA WL 8 single-shaft shredder. By comparison 

with the smaller WL 4, it has a working width 

of 1,000 mm. The rotor diameter is identical at 

252 mm. Both models can be equipped with a 

10-40 mm screen that ultimately defines the size 

of the wood chips. With 22 kW drive power, the 

WL 8 is particularly strong and efficiently shreds 

all kinds of wood. 

The benefits of briquetting 

WEIMA plans to introduce its visitors to the 

subject of briquetting under the motto “Waste 

in Perfect Shape”. Thanks to the C 150 briquette 

press with gripper technology, all compressible 

materials such as wood chips, wood shavings, 

sawdust or sanding dust can be pressed into dimensionally 

stable briquettes without the use of 

a binding material like glue or resin. A residual 

humidity of below 18 percent is all that is necessary. 

A reduction in volume of up to 90 % can be 

achieved in this way. 

The compact C series machines are particularly 

suitable for small and medium-sized companies 

requiring throughput rates no higher than 

50-80 kg/h. All machines are available as lefthand 

or right-hand variants, making it easier to 

incorporate them into any operation’s warehouse 

footprint. 

Valuable waste can thus be transformed into 

briquettes of various diameters that can then be 

inexpensively converted into heating energy inhouse 

or sold for a profit. 

As the calorific value of the wood briquettes is 

almost as high as that of lignite, the use of waste 

wood for heat generation offers an attractive environmental 

and cost-saving alternative to fossil 

fuels. That is of particular interest for the furniture 

industry, sawmills, planing mills, joineries and carpentry 

workshops. 

For industrial demands: 

WEIMA TH 1500 briquette press with die 

technology 

The flagship of the WEIMA briquette presses 

compacts wood wastes on an industrial level. The 

briquette thus produced is extremely dimensionally 

stable and is ejected alternately on both sides. 

The axial piston pump of the hydraulic system is 

driven by a 30 kW motor and can produce up to 

nine briquettes with 150 x 60 mm edge length per 

minute. The throughput in kg is determined by the 

specific density of the material. 

The TH 1500 is equipped with a compact 

hopper that is ideal for continuous feeding. 

Alternatively, a container measuring 

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1,400 x 1,400 mm can be installed, on request, 

as an ideal intermediate storage facility. The sequences 

of movements of the cylinders and dies 

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At the Holz-Handwerk/Fensterbau frontale 2020, the Weinig Group’s exhibition line includes over 25 exhibits, representing pioneering 

technologies for maximum customer benefit. At the exhibition the brands Weinig and HOLZ-HER will present a variety of world firsts for 

processing solid wood as well as derived timber products. “Craftsmanship” and the solutions offered by the Weinig Group form a partnership 

for long-term success and sustainability. 

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Vertical CNC machining with Holz-Her’s 

“best performers”, the EVOLUTION 7402 

and 7405 Connect: 

The Evolution models offer complete, versatile 

and universal machining on all 4 edges with their 

completely new design revealed for the first time at 

the Holz-Handwerk 2020. As one of Holz-Her’s 

best performers, this machine series now incorporates 

state-of-the-art machine design to align perfectly 

with Holz-Her’s world of products. 

In addition to four-sided workpiece formatting, 

the Evolution 7402 4mat offers entirely new 

processing capabilities with its new, optional tool 

changer for up to four tools. Cutouts, engraving, 

profiling and machining for furniture connectors 

are just a few examples, making these vertical 

CNC machines absolute all-rounders with minimum 

space requirements. 

For changing tools, the fully equipped 

Evolution 7402 has a powerful 7.5 kW spindle 

and drilling head including grooving saw. The 

xcut package for the Evolution models will be presented 

live for the first time at the Trade Fair for 

Woodworking Machines. With this package the 

vertical CNC machines automatically produce the 

required workpieces from panel strips previously 

cut in the longitudinal direction. This xcut mode 

completely eliminates cross-cuts otherwise required. 

The intuitive software for the xcut mode 

lists all jobs pending on the machine. This provides 

the machine operator with a perfect overview of all 

jobs and the required strip material. In interaction 

with the edgebander, the two machines form an 

efficient production cell to optimize operating sequences 

in combination. 

With the “connect” and “doors” models of 

the Evolution 7405 4mat, HOLZ-HER has gone a 

step further. The optional “doors” package consists 

of a specially developed angle gear for lock 

cases and a lock case milling tool to allow complete 

processing of door leaves with a maximum 

thickness of up to 70 mm. The optional “connect” 

package allow various connection technologies 

to be processed on the Evolution 7405 4mat. 

For example milling pockets for Lamello Clamex 

or OVVO connectors in one clamping operation. 

Naturally, you can cut pockets for these - as well 

as other - connectors on all four edges as well 

as in the X and Y directions. For this purpose 

HOLZ-HER has supplemented the Evolution to include 

an additional seventh tool changer location 

as well as a newly developed attachment and the 

matching programming macro. 

The perfect nesting cell - NEXTEC 7735 

and Store Master panel storage system 

New design for Evolution series. 

The NEXTEC 7735 offers a unique combination 

of maximum flexibility and extremely 

simple operation! Equipped with a 5-axis milling 

spindle and 2,200 mm deep grid table, the 

7735 offers virtually unlimited machining possibilities. 

All features of the NEXTEC series, such 

as the CabinetSelect Software for custom furniture 

without programming, are also used on the 

NEXTEC 7735. Naturally, the software package 

provided supports installation of all standard commercial 

nesting connectors requiring vertical machining 

only. The solution for the P system connectors 

from Lamello is unique, reliable and unbeatably 

fast. The optional NEXTEC Clamex package 

enables the milling of connector pockets into the 

panel surface in X and in Y directions. The intelligent 

BetterNest software, along with a tool specially 

developed for it, also allow the milling of perfectly 

positioned Clamex pockets in the edges of 

the furniture parts, before these are formatted for 

size in the same clamping operation. And, thanks 

to the 5-axis technology, this is easy to do even in 

miters! This is the way to master all connections 

with ease on the NEXTEC. 

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In combination with a Store Master panel 

storage unit, this system increases efficiency enormously. 

Simultaneously it minimizes handling and 

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At Holz-Handwerk 2020 Leitz, the world 

market leader from Oberkochen, will again 

be presenting service concepts, industry 

highlights and innovations and supplements 

to the range for the woodworking and 

wood-processing industries under the motto 

“Solutions in New Dimensions”. 


Focus on regrinding ‐ Tools as new, in 

manufacturer quality 

One of the focal points at the exhibition stand 

in Nuremberg will be the Leitz regrinding service. 

Over the past decades, Leitz has managed to establish 

an unrivalled level of customer proximity 

with its global network of highly qualified service 

stations and set the benchmark for perfect service. 

At the trade fair, Leitz will present service concepts 

that make it clear that reshapening and reconditioning 

tools in manufacturer quality is the only 

economic alternative to disposable products. Leitz 

sees itself as a partner of the trade, especially for 

small and medium-sized companies, with its logistics 

and consulting concept, which is operated exclusively 

with its own qualified experts from the 

industry and with guaranteed short delivery times. 

Leitz will also be presenting its digital solutions 

such as the proven Leitz XPress-Button or the 

Leitz XPert solution concept. 

Focus on furniture production ‐ When 

diversity meets individuality 

It is obvious that the production of furniture 

is a particularly complex manufacturing sector. 

However, it is also an industry with one of the 

highest quality demands on the part of manufacturers 

and consumers. The increasing number of 

materials, finishes and applications, as well as 

different production philosophies and individual 

production quantities, mean that the number of 

challenges for manufacturing companies is constantly 

increasing. 

For the furniture industry, Leitz sees itself 

as a solution provider whose products primarily 

support flexibility, efficiency and productivity 

in almost all processes ‐ and always with the 

ultimate goal of guaranteeing the quality of the 

final product. The uniquely wide range of solutions 

extends from panel sizing to edge finishing 

or drilling. Depending on the technical design of 

the process, whether using CNC machines or stationary 

systems, Leitz offers a tool solution for every 

conceivable challenge. Whether it be circular 

sawblades such as the RazorCut for perfect panel 

cutting, the Diamaster EdgeExpert shank cutter 

for perfect nesting or the new solid carbide hinge 

boring bit Z3/V3, which enables unrivalled perfect 

hole edges with the highest boring performance - 

at Holz-Handwerk, Leitz presents solutions 

for furniture production that make it clear why 

“Made by Leitz” stands for the highest standards 

and perfect results. 

Focus on timber construction ‐ 

The market segment with growth 

opportunities 

The material wood is currently experiencing 

a true renaissance, both from an aesthetic point 

of view but also for reasons such as sustainability 

or material properties. The fact that the mechanical 

processing of wood is also subject to a process 

of change with the most diverse requirements becomes 

clear above all in the areas of timber construction, 

timber system construction or in the planing 

mill industry. Processes such as planing, finger 

jointing, sawing, boring or profile processing - 

from the point of view of tool design, working in 

solid wood across all industries requires a great 

deal of knowledge and experience regarding material 

properties, machine concepts and cutting 

materials. 

In Nuremberg, Leitz will show how more 

than 140 years of experience in the industry affect 

current tool solutions for solid wood processing. 

Visitors to the stand can look forward to solutions 

for conventional joinery, such as the new solid 

TC solid wood drills or the new HeliCut cutters, 

and can be curious about the advantages the new 

VariPlan Integral planerhead promises in terms of 

application. In addition to the conventional solid 

wood processing, Leitz will also be showing processing 

concepts for all aspects of timber construction 

at Holz-Handwerk. These include the pro- 

cessing of aluminium, insulating materials or fibre 

cement materials, which can be performed highly 

professionally with Leitz system solutions. 

Focus on crafts ‐ Newly revised product 

range for the craftsman of today 

This year in Nuremberg, Leitz will also focus on 

its extensive product range of circular sawblades 

sitable for battery-powered portable saws. It is undisputed 

that this type of portable tools is now part 

of the standard equipment of many craftsmen. 

In its extensive product range of circular sawblades, 

Leitz also offers numerous variants that 

have been specially designed for use on electric 

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for the woodworking trades, which is designed 

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At the 20th edition of the Holz-Handwerk in Nuremberg, Heesemann will be showing its compact sanding machines of the HSM and MFA 

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The HSM .3 will be equipped with a contact 

roller unit for dimensionally accurate calibration, 

a longitudinal sanding unit with pressure lamella 

belt and the recently developed planetary head 

unit DB-S. With this machine all requirements of a 

craftsman‘s workshop are fulfilled. The HSM .3 is 

also suitable for smaller production volumes in industrial 

companies. 

The larger MFA Impression offers a transverse 

sanding unit, a longitudinal sanding unit with calibration 

function, a second longitudinal sanding 

unit with pressure lamella belt and also a DB-S 

planetary head unit. Both machines are equipped 

with the SSF package for creating sanding effects 

such as saw-rough surfaces, planing effects and 

vintage look. 

With its oscillating steel plate, the MFA 

Impression additionally offers the wave grinding, 

with which the effects can also be applied in interrupted 

or continuous waves. With its 21.5-inch 

terminal in full HD resolution, operation of the machine 

is completely intuitive and is supported by 

the optional MMI package. 

The MMI provides assistance for uniform tool 

wear and thus low tool costs and optimum control 

over the status of the machine and the individual 

units, even from a distance. A camera can transmit 

a live image of the remote side of the machine to 

the operator terminal, so that the operator can follow 

the finished workpieces at the exit of the machine 

at any time. 

The Heesemann Service presents the 

Virtual Service Solution. The operator can contact 

the Heesemann Service in real time via 

his mobile device. The Heesemann Service 

sees the camera image and can interactively 

communicate with the user at the machine 

by means of markers and send documents. In 

this way, he can guide the customer even better 

from a distance and support him in case of 

problems without the need for an immediate 

visit of a technician. 

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PUR granulate with hazard-free labelling for edgebanding 

Jowat, the adhesives specialist from Detmold, to showcase first PUR hot melt granules for edgebanding with hazard-free labelling in world 

premiere just in time for the Holz-handwerk trade fair. 

Jowat has been successfully developing alternative 

manufacturing technologies for PUR hot 

melt adhesives with hazard-free labelling since the 

early 2000s. Today, the Jowatherm-Reaktant ® MR 

series supplied by the adhesives manufacturer provides 

an extensive PUR portfolio of monomer-reduced 

products for a wide range of applications 

in the wood and furniture industry. At this year’s 

Holz-handwerk show in Nuremberg, Germany, 

Jowat will be presenting a world first of that product 

family. The tried and tested, non-hazardous 

edgebanding adhesive Jowatherm-Reaktant ® MR 

607.90 is now also available as granules. It can be 

used for bonding established edgebands (ABS, PP, 

PVC, veneer, resinated paper) in a continuous operation 

on edgebanding machines. 

Another highlight at the trade fair will be 

the adhesives manufacturer’s comprehensive 

portfolio of certified one-component prepolymer 

PUR glues from the Jowapur ® 681.xx product 

family for load-bearing glulam. Those adhesives 

can be used for fingerjointing assemblies 

as well as for laminating, allow for the 

choice of assembly times between 10 and 

60 minutes and facilitate an assembly time-pressing 

time ratio of up to 1:1. 

Jowat SE’s presence at the trade fair is aimed 

at once more demonstrating the enterprise’s closeness 

to customers from the craft sector and the 

issues relevant to that target group. Therefore, 

Jowat will also be showcasing new additional 

small containers at its booth. And a classic of the 

craft sector is enjoying a revival: Jowacoll ® 119.60, 

the lacquer glue for bonding extremely challenging 

surfaces is now again available with a new, improved 

formulation. 

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A completely new image 

Integrated 

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process solutions for all woodworking requirements 

SCM will take part in the up-and-coming edition of Holz-Handwerk where it will present to the international market its integrated process 

technologies. These solutions meet the widest range of production demands for secondary wood processing. 


As an indication of just how the Nuremberg 

Event represents an important appointment for 

the Italian Company, SCM will present itself with 

a new design and concept aimed at increasingly 

highlighting the continuous brand strengthening 

in this sector. 

The exhibiting area in Hall 10.0, stand 303 will 

have a completely new look&feel; sturdy, solid, industrial 

and more in line with the Group‘s solidity 

and closer to the production framework of its partner 

companies. An exclusive and essential guise, 

starting with the choice of materials respecting 

Ecotandards, and in line with the Corporate 

Social Responsibility programme already in place 

since 2019. Indeed, the Group implemented a programme 

of concrete actions to reduce refuse and 

waste aimed at encouraging all 4,000 of its employees 

across the globe to adopt a more eco-sustainable, 

environmentally aware lifestyle. 

Five working areas 

At the Holz-Handwerk stand, the vast range 

of technologies and services which have always 

allowed the Italian Group to stand out, will be 

arranged into five working areas made of stand 

alone cells and machines integrated with one another, 

dedicated to different areas of application: 

• Solutions for higher productivity: automated 

sizing, edgebanding and drilling 

• Solutions for the panel; 

• Solutions for the Artisan, 

• SCM Surface Technologies; 

• Solid Wood Processing; 

A new concept of the SCM Smart&Human 

Factory for the world of furnishings, which proved 

such a huge success at Ligna 2019. SCM‘s highly 

flexible and modular Industry 4.0 style production 

model is revolutionising the interaction amongst 

man, machine and robot. At the Nuremberg Trade 

Fair it will be gauged to the needs of all the woodworking 

businesses, including artisans. 

The machining areas on display at the 

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Smart&Human Factory. SCM‘s state of the 

art production model for the furniture industry, 

made of flexible, modular and easily re-configurable 

cells integrated by industrial, collaborative 

robots, in line with demands from Industry 4.0, 

will be at Nuremberg in a version which is accessible 

to all businesses. Taking centre stage in 

this area will be the new morbidelli x200 machining 

centre for nesting, ideal for “batch 1” and 

designed to apply the best performances of the 

“All-in-one” technology of the SCM 5-axis machining 

centres for the panel, to this kind of machining 

as well. Integrating with the panel machining 

process will be the stefani xd edgebanding 

machines, suitable for industrial production 

and intensive use over and above the single daily 

shift, and a drilling cell made of a new morbidelli 

cx220 compact drilling machine, ideal for 

machining small batches, whose innovative drilling 

heads guarantee performance and exclusive 

efficiency in compact sizes. Panel loading and 

unloading will be done by an anthropomorphic 

Robot to relieve the operator of the more repetitive, 

low added value duties. 

Higher productivity solutions 

From the gabbiani pt panel sizing machine 

which, thanks to the Flexcut unit, guarantees a 

production increase of up to 30 % due to the simultaneous 

execution of cuts both lengthways 

and transversally, to the All-in-one potentiality of 

the morbidelli m200 machining centre for drilling 

and routing which can save up to 60 % on drilling 

cycles. Rounding off with edgebanding, the stefani 

kd offers no-compromise edging on any kind 

of panel, and is followed by the passage of the 

panel through the action p clamp for an effective 

cabinet assembly. 

Integrated surface treatment 

At Nuremberg, SCM proves itself a unique 

partner in the industry offering a vast range of integrated 

solutions for the entire surface treatment 

process. The pressing, sanding and painting solutions 

in the “SCM Surface Technologies” area are 

designed for exclusive, sought-after finishing solutions 

capable of satisfying all the process and 

end product requirements. The process sees the 

dmc eurosystem playing a leading role in sanding. 

It will present a completely new planetary unit at 

the trade fair which is ideal for timber rustication, 

structuring and chamfering yet with extremely 

high finishing capacities even on mdf. The superfici 

mini sprayer makes its mark at the finishing stage, 

a plug&spray machine suitable for those who, 

up until now, have opted for a manual spraying 

method. The new sergiani gs for pressing is making 

its mark; specifically designed for the German 

market, this electric press offers a 50 % saving on 

consumption compared to the standard machines 

in this category. 

Joinery solutions 

SCM proves itself to be a solid, reliable partner 

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bile carriage circular saw is holding centre stage 

in this area with tilting blade up to 46° to work in 

complete safety with minimum space and a perfect 

hold on the panel. Integrating the process is 

the minimax me40 top performing, high productivity 

edgebanding machine, and the startech cn 

plus fully automatic drilling router, the best of the 

range in the entry level category for the quality/ 

price ratio it offers: it stands out for its high performance 

speed, the significant power of the electro-spindle 

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Technologies for solid wood 

Two models will be on display which perfectly 

integrate into the production process of fixtures: 

accord 42 fx with twin machining unit with three 

and five axes equipped with independent heads, 

which best combine the need for power and profiling 

with the need for production creativity and flexibility; 

superset nt, the throughfeed moulder with 

unlimited usages - profiles for windows, doors, 

stairways, moulding and furniture - equipped with 

a SET UP system which reduces the set up time by 

up to 20 times when changing process. 

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With the same drive as always, and the technology of tomorrow 

Smartaction - compact, connected, accessible 

Holz-Handwerk 2020 will be an unmissable opportunity to discover Biesse technology and explore all the advantages offered by SmartAction. 

SmartAction is the new smart factory, designed 

for companies that want to make the 

most of the advantages offered by digitalisation. 

SmartAction allows for the creation of a 

carpentry workshop that is compact, connected 

and accessible, by adopting all the features offered 

by Industry 4.0. The machines are all connected 

in real time and guarantee rapid, optimised 

performance, making the whole company 

more competitive. 

Visitors to Holz-Handwerk will learn how 

a smart factory can be set up within a small manufacturing 

area, exploiting the power of highly 

integrated solutions to offer standardised processes 

without renouncing customisation. 

The main focus of this new concept is the integrated 

management of production by means 

of software that allows the various machines to 

exchange data and process production reports, 

all within a small floor space, with limited investments 

and an easy learning curve. Through 

the complete digitalisation of processes, furnishings 

can be produced quickly, flexibly and 

with room for customisation. 

AutomAction ‐ integrate, connect, 

digitalise 

The SmartAction concept is an extension of 

AutomAction, the technological concept that introduced 

the digital factory in large industrial 

plants, and is the key to boosting and strengthening 

production performance in large industries. 

The concept coordinates people and robots 

and channels the infinite capacity offered 

by machines to make the connected, integrated 

and digitalised factory of tomorrow a reality 

today. 

Technologies in action 

The stand will feature the Rover K FT machining 

centre in action, equipped with the Winstore X3 

automated magazine, a compact solution for artisans 

and small to medium-sized businesses that 

require flexibility and ease of use. Other machining 

centres in action include the Winline 16, a multicentre 

for the production of windows and doors, 

and the Rover C and Rover A, which have always 

been the most reliable solutions on the market and 

are now even faster and more productive thanks 

to the new FPS work tables. Edgebanding technology 

will include the Akron 1100, Akron 1400 

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and Stream A automated single-sided edgebanding 

machines. Other machines on display will in- 

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Eko 2.2 compact vertical boring machine with ROS 

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The performance of woodworking machines is increasing continuously. Of course, this also increases the demands on the important peripheral 

equipment such as filter systems or dedusters. Höcker Polytechnik GmbH has been supporting the woodworking and furniture industry with 

innovative disposal and suction solutions for many years. Höcker has further expanded its expertise in energy efficiency in this sector. 


From 18.3. to 21.3 Höcker Polytechnik will 

be showing its latest developments at this year's 

Holz-Handwerk in Nuremberg. Höcker shows 

how intelligent control technology, combined with 

efficiently planned filter systems, can radically reduce 

energy consumption in workshop operations. 

At the heart of this are the well-known MultiStar 

filter systems or the compact Vacumobil deduster. 

With the BrikStar C briquetting press, Höcker 

presses wood dust and shavings into high-energy 

heating material briquettes. This not only opens 

up an extremely cheap source of energy for woodworking 

companies - they also provide CO 2 neutral 

heating. 

With particularly small combined painting 

and drying booths, Höcker gives the woodworking 

trade the opportunity to paint with industrial 

quality without compromising, even when space 

is limited. 

The Höcker Polytechnik trade fair stand in 

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once again a popular and definite starting point 

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Höcker Polytechnik shows the latest innovations at Holz-Handwerk. 


Osmo presents latest developments 

Wood surfaces: innovative products with added value for craftsmen 

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At the 20th Holz-Handwerk fair, joiners, 

cabinetmakers and carpenters inform themselves 

about the latest innovations and 

trends. Osmo Holz und Color GmbH & Co. KG 

is represented by their 98-square-metre large 

stand in Hall 10.1 Stand 409, and there 

under the banner “Wood meets colour”, 

they present many innovative products for 

the design and decoration of wood surfaces. 

Repositioning wood coatings 

At the fair, Osmo presents an optimal and 

comprehensive range for the craftsman: under the 

banner “for every requirement the suitable product”, 

high quality demands, certified health and 

safety for the home, sustainability, the best workability 

and high coverage are at the centre of the 

repositioning of the coating systems. Professional 

products, which have faster drying times or require 

specialist knowledge and tools to be used, have 

a special marking on the label and are available 

in user-friendly sizes, for example in 5-litre and 

10-litre cans. At the various demonstration areas 

at the stand, the application of different products 

is clearly explained, and a comprehensive team of 

advisors is available for questions as well as indepth 

conversation. 

Wood surfaces treated efficiently 

New to range is Osmo Reactive Stain, with 

which the on-trend greying effect on Oak wood 

is achieved. After as little as 3-5 hours, the surface 

is dry ‐ which makes a finished surface with 

only two coats possible within one day. This professional 

product is available in the three colour intensities 

Grey Effect Light, Grey Effect Medium and 

Grey Effect Intense, and adorns in next to no time 

wooden flooring, furniture, stairs and so on with 

a new look. With the appropriate Osmo Microfibre 

Roller, the wood stain is applied quickly, evenly 

and seamlessly with the wood grain and spread 

out over the surface to create a homogeneous appearance. 

For even more seamless application, especially 

on larger areas, it is recommended to apply 

Osmo Reactive Stain with a garden pump sprayer 

and spread out immediately with a cotton cloth 

or mop. As every wood piece contains different 

amounts of tannin, varied and individual staining 

results are to be expected. Other innovations like 

Osmo Polyx ® EXPERIENCE 

-Express, Osmo Spray-Wax or new accessories 

for the popular two-tone technique can 

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The optimized full range from Osmo offers for every requirement 

the suitable product. The professional products are clearly labelled 

and also available in user-friendly can sizes. 

Photo: Osmo 


COMPANIES 

Moulded wood specialist Becker now offers furniture 

components made of solid wood 

Big news from the moulded wood manufacturer Becker, the world market leader in the production of individual, ready-to-install moulded 

wood parts: From 2020, the company will also have solid wood in its portfolio for the first time. The company with 84 years of tradition has 

so far been known for its products made of moulded wood and Formfleece. 

“The market is looking more and more for 

complete solutions around the topic of real wood 

in furniture construction. We are now responding 

to this demand from our customers and, for 

the first time, are offering not only moulded wood 

solutions but also individual parts and complete 

assemblies made of solid wood,” says Managing 

Director Gerrit Becker, explaining the move. 

“The advantage for our customers is that they 

get everything from a single source. On request, 

we can take over the complete development and 

manufacture of solid wood products, also in combination 

with moulded wood or Formfleece components. 

This enables us to meet the demand of 

many designers who are looking for a competent 

partner for their ideas,” adds Joachim Schelper, 

head of development. 

Gerrit Becker: “We have invested a large sum 

in this. Near Cluj-Napoca, the second largest city 

in Romania, a new 2,500 sqm production hall 

has been built. The employees there will carry 

out the orders with the usual precision. Our managing 

director, Dr. Marius Giurgiu, with whom 

we have been working trustfully for many years, 

is a proven specialist in the field of solid wood 

production.” 

The Becker machinery includes classic woodworking 

machines and modern multi-axis CNC 

machining centres. “This enables us to produce 

complex and precise furniture parts from beech, 

oak, ash or American walnut. We buy exclusive 

squared lumber of high quality and with FSC and 

PEFC certifications,” says Schelper. 

Solid wood is valued in furniture production as 

a high-quality, sensual, biological natural material 

with a unique grain full of character. It is durable, 

resistant, antistatic, ecological and maintenancefriendly. 

No tooling costs are required for production. 

Small quantities and large series are equally 

possible. The short set-up and production times allow 

an attractive price-performance ratio. 

“Examples of products that we could realise 

are small pieces of furniture, ready-to-install furniture 

components such as chair or table legs with 

round, square or individual cross-sections, frames, 

furniture feet, armrests, also in combination with 

other materials made of plywood or plastic mouldings 

or metal parts.” 

However, the tried and tested remains: 

Becker’s customer advisors in Brakel or the international 

sales partners will continue to be 

Extended offer: Managing Director Gerrit Becker and his Romanian 

colleague Dr. Marius Giurgiu in front of the new factory in 

Romania with a chair frame made from solid. 

available for the entire process, from consulting, 

development and prototype construction to 

logistics. 

At ZOW, the supplier fair for the furniture 

industry and interior design, Becker intends to 

present solid wood elements for the first time. 

www.becker-brakel.de 

Trade fair 

for woodworking 

and furniture 

production 

www.woodwarsawexpo.com 

13-15 

May 

2020

COMPANIES 

DIEFFENBACHER defies economic slowdown 

Eppingen-based machine and plant manufacturer DIEFFENBACHER is successfully withstanding the general global economic weakness 

through its focus on sustainable technologies. Numerous project wins justify the company’s creation of its Recycling Business Unit on 

January 1, 2019. Strong growth in this area is expected in 2020. 

Wood recycling plants for the woodbased 

panels industry were the main driver of 

DIEFFENBACHER’s recycling success in 2019. The 

company anticipates continued high demand from 

the wood-based panel industry, but also expects 

growth in its other target markets ‐ Alternative 

Fuels, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and “Waste 

2 Product.” 

The Wood Business Unit booked 18 new plant 

orders by the end of November. Twelve of these 

were received by DIEFFENBACHER in Eppingen, 

while the Chinese subsidiary Shanghai Woodbased 

Panel Machinery (SWPM) received six orders 

for continuous production lines for smaller capacities. 

Orders came both from existing and new 

customers, demonstrating that DIEFFENBACHER 

plants are valued by established wood-based panel 

producers and new market entrants. 

www.dieffenbacher.de 

New guns available to improve user experience 

To better meet customers’ needs, Graco designed 

50 New Pro Xp electrostatic spray 

gun models, components and accessories, 

and the new ProXpWBx External Charge Waterborne 

Gun. With more models to choose 

from, customers will get the performance 

they expect - now with great spraying flexibility 

for ever-changing production needs. 

About the 50 NEW Pro Xp 

The 50 new air spray gun models contain very 

durable components and support a wide variety 

of application needs. They come ready to spray 

out-of-the-box. 

Round spray nozzle and air cap combinations 

maximize wrap around cylindrical objects. 

Soft spray air cap and nozzles are ideal for 

small, lightweight parts that need a fine finish with 

minimal paint flow. 

Aerospace air cap is designed for high paint 

flows to quickly cover large areas (like airplanes) 

with the finest finish. 

Fixed fluid flow guns are made to extend component 

life when applying metallic and extremely 

abrasive materials. 

HVLP (High Volume Low Pressure) air cap is labeled 

according to environmental standards. 

High air flow model gives you the feel and 

reach you need to paint from a distance and 

around large, complex areas. 

About the NEW Pro Xp WBx 

Customers can optimize their electrostatic 

spraying of waterborne materials with the Pro Xp 

WBx External Charge Waterborne Gun. Two new 

manual and four new automatic gun models 

charge waterborne material at the tip of the spray 

gun - no extra isolation system equipment needed! 

Two probe options meet different customer 

needs: the long probe provides the best transfer 

efficiency and wrap. The shorter probe is for low 

profile electrostatic charging. 

www.graco.com 


COMPANIES 

Danzer renews health product declaration for veneers 

Transparent disclosure of material 

contents 

International hardwood specialist Danzer has renewed its Health Product Declaration (HPD) 

for its Vinterio, Linea and Nimbus technical veneers. This standard involves the reporting 

of material contents of products to guarantee transparency and certainty for procurement 

officers and end users. 

COMPANIES 

Danzer successfully renewed the HPD for 

its Vinterio, Linea and Nimbus technical veneers 

in 2019, which conform to increasingly strict requirements. 

The declaration, which lists all of the 

products’ contents gives designers, procurement 

managers and consumers peace of mind and provides 

transparency when selecting quality veneer 

materials. In parallel with the disclosures made in 

the HPD, Danzer also lists product information on 

Mindful Materials (www.mindfulmaterials.com), a 

free platform that collects, vets, and publishes information 

on the impact of products on environment 

and human health. 

Advantages for both users and 

product manufacturers 

“The Health Product Declaration and the 

Mindful Materials platform help manufacturers 

to obtain our product information quickly and 

simply, before checking the products against 

their own requirements. A growing number of 

architects and designers are coming to expect 

transparent declarations for individual components 

and supply chains, so that they can pursue 

strategic goals in their green building projects 

more efficiently,” explained Danzer product 

manager Birgit Kocher. “For Danzer, transparency 

is the essential ingredient in every product and 

also provides an opportunity for us to optimize 

our products,” she added. 

Tougher requirements for Health 

Product Declaration 

The HPD Open Standard calls for precise, reliable 

and consistent reporting on the contents of 

building materials that covers environmental, sustainability 

and health criteria. The declaration is 

aligned to other standards, including those of the 

Living Future and the Cradle-to-Cradle Products 

Innovation Institutes, as well as a growing number 

of building industry rating and certification 

standards. Health Product Declaration ® (HPD) 

Collaborative is a non-profit association with more 

than 200 organization members representing the 

full spectrum of the building industry. The amended 

HPD guidelines stipulate even stricter reporting 

of emissions, admixtures and trace elements, 

as well as simplified summaries of contents, materials 

and supporting documentation. 

Danzer’s sustainability drive 

The Health Product Declaration is one of numerous 

steps taken by Danzer under its commitment 

to transparency, social responsibility and 

sustainability. Additional measures include the 

Danzer sustainability report which has been published 

regularly since 2014, certification according 

to various standards including FSC, PEFC, ISO 

14001 and ISO 9001, as well as switching to biodegradable 

plastics for packaging. 

www.danzer.com 

New equipment for Remmers Technical Centre 

Customised workpiece coating to customer order 

Medium-sized company Remmers carries forward its commitment to research and development 

into the new decade. The Wood Surface Competence Centre of the Wood Paints and 

Varnishes division at the company’s headquarters in Löningen in Lower Saxony has recently 

acquired a model of the latest generation of the Schiele Vacumat MasterCoat ® . The high-tech 

equipment from Schiele Maschinenbau GmbH makes it possible to partially or completely 

coat workpieces made of various types of material. With this equipment, water-based paint 

systems from Remmers can be applied to a wide range of profile geometries. 

The system has a wide range of settings which 

make it possible to set the production parameters 

for many products individually and meet the requirements 

of all the customer processes. 

A dew-point-controlled cooling system shortens 

set-up times considerably, so that colours can 

be changed within the shortest possible time. 

In addition, the application chamber of the new 

equipment is Teflon coated and designed in such 

a way that various masking tools can be integrated. 

“This high-tech investment helps us to improve 

cooperation with our trade and industry customers 

and to offer them a more comprehensive 

service than ever before”, explains Elmar Kaiser, 

Divisional Manager of RTS Remmers Technical 

Service for Craftwork in the wood paints and varnishes 

business. 

www.remmers.com 

Remmers now has the new generation of the Vacumat MasterCoat ® 

in its Wood Surface Competence Centre. 


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FURNITURE 

With the development of the Tiomos hinge system, GRASS has rung in the beginning of a new era in the history of furniture construction. With the concealed hinge Tiomos Hidden, GRASS has now added 

another product to its portfolio that makes it possible to move doors elegantly and with a mechanism that is almost invisible. 

Tiomos Hidden 

The invisible hinge 

With the development of the Tiomos hinge system, GRASS has rung in the beginning of a new era in the history of furniture construction. 

With the concealed hinge Tiomos Hidden, launched at 2017, the company has now added another component that makes it 

possible to move doors elegantly and with an almost invisible mechanism. 

“When we talk about minimalism, we mean 

that the technology is becoming increasingly 

smarter, the features increasingly more comfortable 

‐ and also increasingly less visible”, says 

Andreas Marosch, head of marketing at GRASS, 

describing the company’s approach. “The customers 

want to express their personality with customised 

furniture; the technical components 

should either be designed in a way that does not 

distract from the design of the piece or in a way 

that, besides their functional purpose, they also 

add a unique aesthetic aspect to the furniture.” 

The latest product in the Tiomos range perfectly 

exemplifies this product philosophy. It 

strictly gives precedence to the furniture; even 

better: it blends into the design and is therefore 

almost invisible. The concealed hinge Tiomos 

Hidden is inset into the furniture body and therefore 

sits flush with the door and the furniture’s 

interior walls. With the new finish “Night”, the 

hinge also responds to the trend for dark, sophisticated 

finishes. Tiomos Hidden is also available 

in a nickel-plated version. 

GRASS stands for movement mechanisms 

that combine functionality with good design. This 

dual aspect also characterises Tiomos Hidden: 

the concealed hinge is just as functional as its 

visible counterparts. It is exceptionally durable 

and can be adjusted in three different ways. 

Tiomos Hidden features an integrated dampening 

mechanism and has a 105 degree opening 

angle. Doors do not have to be thicker than a 

mere 18 millimetres. The hinge is available in a 

soft close version and also with “Tipmatic plus” 

for handleless fronts ‐ and as usual, GRASS has 

had the exceptional product quality confirmed by 

an independent body: Tiomos Hidden bears the 

LGA label, which is awarded by TÜV Rheinland 

and documents the comprehensive and consistent 

product quality. 

www.grass.eu 



Precision grip guarantees a clean cut 

in furniture production, every millimeter counts: Optimal arrangement of workpieces with 

different geometries is crucial when it comes to saving on expensive raw materials. Schmalz 

offers a flexible vacuum solution precisely for this purpose. In addition, the system holds 

securely on smooth surfaces and ensures short set-up times. 

The nesting process is commonly used to 

lower material costs. The individual elements 

are slotted together or nested, resulting in minimal 

waste. A wear plate is then clamped on the 

grid table of the CNC machine. The raw material 

is positioned here. The vacuum is so strong that 

the wear plate is able to keep even the smallest 

milled parts safely in position. Horizontal processing, 

such as drilling, is not possible during 

nesting. However, this is no longer a problem 

with the Schmalz clamping system. 

Flat Construction 

The vacuum blocks of the VCBL-G series 

are particularly suitable for use directly on the 

MDF wear plate of nesting machine tables. 

This means the user does not need to set up 

the machine, which avoids long downtimes. 

The suction cups are connected directly to the 

vacuum system of the CNC machine via hoses 

in order to generate the necessary vacuum. If 

the user places the workpiece down, a touch 

valve with a soft surface activates the vacuum 

block ‐ this protects the workpiece surface. 

Unneeded suction cups can also remain on the 

machine table. 

The friction pad on the underside of the suction 

cup creates a high holding force, even on smooth 

surfaces. Schmalz has designed the connection to 

the suction plate with a robust main body made 

from plastic so that the suction plate can be easily 

replaced in the event of wear. Another advantage 

of the vacuum block series is its minimal operating 

height of 30 millimeters. This makes the VCBL-G 

solution ideally suited to 3-axis machining centers 

with low Z values. 

Flexible Modular System 

For users who want to use a vacuum block 

VCBL-B instead of a suction cup VCBL-G, Schmalz 

has developed the Adapter-Plate AP-G. The vacuum 

is still generated directly from the nesting machine 

system via a hose. The suction cup mount includes 

a grid: The vacuum blocks can be inserted 

in the Adapter-Plate in 15° increments in any direction 

so that the suction area can be aligned as 

desired. The modular system ‐ vacuum blocks are 

available in three different heights and with four 

different suction areas ‐ increases flexibility and 

shortens set-up time. Due to the variable working 

heights, users can also use the Schmalz system for 

5-axis machining centers. 

The vacuum blocks VCBL-G K1 can be placed directly on the 

wear plate of the machine. 

Using the Adapter-Plates AP-G, the vacuum blocks VCBL-B can 

also be used on nesting machines. 

www.schmalz.com 

Optimized solution for door assembling 

At Barberán, tailoring our machinery to your specific production is one of our strengths. 

A great example is this door assembling line, where the production has been optimized 

with two independent but connected transporting tables that allow the operator to invest 

the time more efficiently. 

The door core is coated with PUR glues and 

picked up by two clamps that lay it over the panel 

the operator has prepared. It goes directly onto 

the next table, where the operator can fit the upper 

panel manually, and go into a press to ensure 

a perfect finish. The line is simple, and the operator 

can switch between laying the upper and lower 

panels without downtime. 

www.barberan.com 


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J-Shape technology 

The best in softforming for every kind of profile 

The design and furnishing sectors are continually evolving. Modularity is increasingly a diktat, 

machining work is on the rise, new shapes and possibilities are added which need to be 

moulded and shaped with ease, and rapidity while still guaranteeing a good quality finishing. 

New market trends, like more complicated shapes, frame profiles which become handles, the 

pursuit of absolute minimalism, boxes created from elements with 45 degree profiles - to 

name but a few - have lead SCM, world leader in technologies for secondary wood processing, 

to develop a solution of softforming edgebanding which is the result of know-how 

excellence and solidity of a large Group, and exclusive highly reliable partner to state of the 

art companies around the world. 

“A revolutionary machine that helped 

me stay one step ahead of everyone 

in this industry”. These are the words 

used by the President of Tona Bathroom 

Furniture, Frank Shen to describe the 

“stefani s” edgebander. 

”More than 80 % of our furniture has 

been designed with these handles and 

with our new “stefani” edgebander we 

have found the best solution possible“. 

Declaration by Josè Herrerias, Managing 

Director of Gamadecor, one of the brands 

in the Porcelanosa Grupo. 

In particular, on the subject of softforming and 

J-Shape, SCM stands out as a genuine specialist in 

the supply of technologies that are simple to use, 

but which produce results of the highest quality 

and which start by paying close attention to market 

demands. 

J-side: Edgebanding with a new vision 

for design 

The new “J-side” kit is a clear example of how 

much the SCM technologies for softforming manage 

to greatly optimise and simplify production 

processes in panel shape edgebanding. It is, in 

fact, a technological evolution designed by SCM 

to solve the problem of complex profiles because 

it allows for the automatic and intensive processing 

of those components which also require soft- 

forming edgebanding of the transverse sides, thus 

completing 100 % the processing and finishing of 

the component directly on the machine.. 

The “J-side” kit is a head for the “2M100” corner 

rounding unit developed with a specific feeler 

and tool. It permits profiling with CNC interpolation 

on concave panel profiles and with internal 

radii starting from 4.7mm. It is perfectly integrat- 

ed into the machine and allows rapidly adaptation 

of the profile to be machined from HMI, manual 

or automatic management of different edge 

thicknesses (including those with protective film) 

and the best possible management of the finishing 

continuity as best as possible (chamfered or radius) 

on the whole panel perimeter. 

The new kit also allows you to achieve results 

sooner than expected which are essential in terms 

of finishing and productivity. The important novelty 

is the possibility to create J-Shape profiles so 

that the straight edge is exactly in line with the 

shaped edge, without gaps or projections. With 

the new “J-side” kit that can be fitted onto a standard 

edgebander, there is no longer any need 

to carry out this work manually or with an additional 

stage: everything becomes much simpler, 

more rapid and better performing because all the 

stages can be carried out for a complete J-Shape 

edgebanding. 

Components are finally produced in continuous 

flow, with the panel always moving. 

Production volumes of up to 10.000 panels per 

shift can be generated (depending on the machine 

model/equipment used). This represents a 

considerable step forward to extend the creative 

potentials of softforming to an increasing number 

of companies because no other operators are 

needed besides the edgebander operator, no further 

space is required and no further logistics are 

necessary. It is also a highly effective solution with 

any kind of edge and with different thicknesses. A 

single investment for a vastly expanded business 

potential. 

www.scmgroup.com 

”At Fratelli Minotti every design request 

and demand can be met thanks to individual 

skills and SCM technology.” 



WEINMANN Treff 2019 

Experience. Network. Inspire. 

WEINMANN once again opened its doors to present the latest technologies and digital solutions for timber construction. Technical presentations 

and the accompanying specialist exhibition offered information on current market trends and opportunities, including latest machine 

technology and timber construction 4.0 - the path to the digital future. WEINMANN presented a number of new and innovative technologies 

for house construction at its trade fair from November 7–8. 

FastenerSwitch ‐ quick fastener change 

The newly developed quick-change system allows 

maximum flexibility in the selection and use 

of fastening devices. Four additional fastening 

units are available on a separate station. The fastening 

unit required is inserted fully automatically 

based on the material. The multifunction bridges 

uses the data record to select the required unit 

fully automatically. As the units no longer have to 

be changed manually, idle times and setup times 

are minimized. Longitudinally, the station needs a 

space of just 500 mm, meaning that the space requirement 

is increased only marginally. The ideal 

solution even for smaller businesses, to achieve 

high diversity in the selection of fastening units. 

5-axis technology 

The WALLTEQ M-310 insulFill now provides a pure insulating station 

Visitors could also see new options in the area 

of 5-axis technology for element construction. The 

5-axis unit increases the diversity of processing options 

and the areas of use ‐ free-interpolating processing 

of different sides is possible. 

Separator for loose screws 

WEINMANN has developed an automatic 

separator for loose screws when using screws as 

connecting elements. This separator is suitable 

not only for standard lengths up to 70 mm, but 

also for long screws, such as those with a length 

of 160 mm, 220 mm or 250 mm. Even longer 

screws are also an option. Automatic screw units 

are available for both the frame work station and 

the multifunction bridge. This increases efficiency 

across the entire production process. 

Automatic insulation with WALLTEQ 

M-310 insuFill 

The new WALLTEQ M-310 insuFill multifunction 

bridge enables higher performance and shorter 

cycle times. Integrated in production lines, it is 

used as a pure insulating station for applying loose 

insulating material. The integrated blowing plate 

is automatically moved to the respective space and 

inserts the defined quantity of insulating material. 

Roof and ceiling elements can also be insulated 

automatically ‐ the blowing plate can be rotated 

90° and ensures optimal distribution of the insulation 

in each space, at an even density for wall, 

roof, ceiling and gable elements. 

WALLTEQ M-120 multifunction bridge - 

Small quantities in batch size 1 

For the production of wall, roof, ceiling and 

gable elements, WEINMANN offers a machine 

that operates with maximum efficiency, even 

with small quantities - the WALLTEQ M-120. This 

multifunction bridge is equipped with holders for 

stapling and nailing devices and a routing unit 

to facilitate automatic fastening and processing 

of the sheathing. Openings for windows, doors 

and sockets, as well as free forms such as circles, 

curves or diagonal cuts can all be processed, 

resulting in finished elements with a high level 

of dimensional accuracy. With low acquisition 

costs, the WALLTEQ M-120 offers an excellent 

price/performance ratio and is the perfect entrylevel 

solution for small and medium-sized carpentry 

businesses. 

Timber construction 4.0 digital and 

networked 

Software, networking, digitalization - these 

topics will have a major impact on timber construction 

in the future. As a complete system provider, 

WEINMANN offers fully integrated solutions for 

advancing timber construction and allowing businesses 

to take a step toward Timber Construction 

4.0. An integrated data flow and the corresponding 

information flow enable an efficient and flexible 

production process. Software is increasingly 

becoming the decisive factor for the benefits of 

machines. At the WEINMANN Treff, visitors found 

a wide range of new, digital products, which provide 

a decisive advantage in everyday work with 

CNC-controlled machines or automated systems. 

www.homag.com 

Fully automatic processing with a routing unit with the 

WALLTEQ M-120 multifunction bridge 


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TOOLS 

The 2.0 generation of panel sizing circular saw blades - 

now up to 730 mm! 

Under the concept of ”Cutting 2.0“, numerous products have been subsumed at AKE since 2015 which - different to all other conventional 

types of tools - focus on a new and innovative mode of chipping. All these tools are characterized by an extremely efficient tool life and cutting 

quality. From 2016 this cutting principle has specifically been expanded in the field of panel sizing with the type 2.0024 saw blades. There has 

been an initial complete range of panel sizing circular saw blades since 2017. In 2019 AKE is now providing an even more extensive product 

range for the customers which includes - for the first time - diameters of up to 730 mm, optimized for sizing cuts. Stefan Weckenmann, longtime 

application engineer at AKE and co-designer of the new panel sizing circular saw blade 2.0, presents the advantages of the large sizing 

cut saw blades: 

What characterizes the new 2.0 types? 

Compared to conventional saw blades the 

panel sizing circular saw blades of the 2.0 generation 

are equipped with optimized chip spaces and 

the patented ChipBelt ® ‐ an area which is set off 

against the saw body and ensures the targeted removal 

of the arising chips. 

Which are the major advantages? 

Due to the targeted removal of chips from 

the cutting edge the tool-wearing multiple chipping 

can be reduced considerably and this clearly 

increases the service life of the AKE circular saw 

blade. The direct comparison with conventional 

circular saw blades shows that an up 70 % longer 

tool life is achieved. The total costs are up to 

35 % lower. Based on a similar principle as is applied 

with the low-noise SuperSilent saw blades, 

the noise while sawing is up to 50 % lower. 

Which versions and sizes are you currently 

offering? 

AKE is offering an extensive complete range 

to the user. Depending on the case of application 

both finish cut and thin-kerf variants can be 

purchased in popular sizes. In the field of sizing 

cuts especially large cutting heights are realized 

by means of AKE saw blade diameters of up to 

730 mm. This is how you achieve a particularly 

high output in industrial parquet processing. For 

applications where a finish-cut quality is required 

a range of tools with diameters of 280 mm up to 

520 mm is available. 

And what will the future bring? 

The AKE panel sizing programme is already 

tapio-ready. In future the items can thus be imported 

and processed in the ecosystem of Tapio 

via barcode. The focus of the trade is to an increasing 

extent on panel processing. Within this field 

of application AKE will therefore carry on providing 

innovative products with the corresponding 

advantages. 

www.ake.de 


TOOLS 

DP panel sizing saw blades with topcoat, extra long 

edge lives 

Diamond-tipped (DP) panel sizing saw blades from the LEUCO product portfolio are well-known in the industry and are popular because of the 

long edge lives on the pressure beam machine. 

The LEUCO research and development department 

is further developing these saw blades with 

a view toward the future. The laser ornaments on 

the new diamond-tipped panel sizing circular saw 

blade family are arranged in a special vibrationdamping 

sequence and additionally come with 

damping material. The better the blade‘s vibrations 

are dampened, the quieter the blade cuts. 

Users are guaranteed to get better cutting performance 

and quality with much less noise throughout 

the entire service life of the saw blade. 

Even longer edge lives due to “topcoat” 

coating 

The diamond-tipped cutting edges are treated 

with the special LEUCO ”topcoat” coating. The 

coating on the tooth flanks helps to keep dirt from 

sticking to the blades, thus extending the edge 

lives of the diamond tips by up to 50 %. When 

trimming wood materials, the running meter performance 

reaches a completely new level when it 

comes to edge life. LEUCO ranks worldwide as a 

pioneer and leading supplier of diamond-tipped 

panel sizing saw blades with optional coating 

treatment. 

The blades come in three different tooth 

geometries 

G6: For finish cuts on unfinished and coated 

composite wood boards individually or in packages 

up to 80 mm. 

G3: For finish cuts in fibrous composite wood 

boards such as wood core plywood, veneer plywood 

and lightweight panels. 

HR-TR: For the finish cut on HPL and solid core 

materials. 

The new DP-tipped product line with the innovative 

laser ornaments and damping filling material 

is now available from stock in the most frequently 

used dimensions. 

All dimensions with tooth combinations “G6” 

and “G3” are optionally available with the coa-ting 

LEUCO is now offering all diamond-tipped panel sizing saw 

blades with an optional “LEUCO topcoat” on the tooth sides. 

Customers thus achieve edge lives for all applications never 

before seen in the industry. 

“topcoat” with separate identification numbers. 

The tooth combination “HR-TR” (hollow backtrapezoidal) 

is supplied with coating “topcoat” 

only. 

www.leuco.com 

Clamping nuts ESB and ESD ‐ an exiting DUO 

Who doesn’t know this situation, it is important to attach a great tool; without expensive special tools or a very strong man hardly conceivable. 

The following scenario is likely to be familiar to every manufacturing employee: With a long lever, a strong worker collares to close the 

nuts, sweaty, back-injurious and especially expensive work later, the first of four nuts is closed. 

For this problem, the company ENEMAC from 

Germany has found a cost effective mechanical solution. 

The power clamping nuts ESB and ESD. 

The clamping nuts operate with a hidden 

planetary gear in an outer casing that can be driven 

easily and without much effort by a small nut 

on the top of the casing. Thereby, the internal 

thread will be slightly retracted so that the counter-piece 

is clamped. The principle is simple, the effect 

is very large, because by this concept, a force 

of 6 - 20 t can easily be manually achieved. 

Simply screw the nut onto the existing bolt, 

then turn the small nut on the top with a standard 

torque wrench, in individual cases with a normal 

socket wrench up to the specified torque and the 

will securely and especially fast strain your work 

piece or tool. 

The Type ESB is intended for consistently large 

work pieces or tools, since the screw is limited 

by the blind hole. When changing sizes, decision 

should be made to ESD series with through hole 

threads, as this has an unlimited stroke. Both types 

can be used almost everywhere, e.g. for tensioning 

of belt conveyors, tools in presses and punches, 

work pieces, during welding, etc. At the request 

of many special variants, such as high temperature 

designs for the foundry industry, or lubrication 

with food grade grease for food and laboratory 

technology are feasible here. The power clamping 

nuts are used at any time, whether as original 

equipment, or as a retrofit item. 

www.enemac.de 


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USER REPORT 

F.l.t.r.: Žiga Ravnik, RUF Representative Croatia, Marko Košćal, Managing Director of Košćal, and 

Roland Ruf, Managing Director of RUF, are delighted about the business success of briquette production 

at Košćal. 

Košćal has been pressing high quality briquettes on two new Lignum R6 Presses from RUF since t 

2019 and these provide about a third of their entire Sales revenues. 

Pallet manufacturer expands business field with briquette production 

Value of wood residuals increased tenfold 

Thousands of tons of wood chips are produced yearly during the production of wooden pallets. Instead of selling them for a pittance, the 

croatian pallet manufacturer Košćal invested in its first briquetting system from RUF, Zaisertshofen, about ten years ago and thereby increased 

the value of their wood residuals tenfold. In the meantime briquetting with two modern RUF Lignum R6 Presses has become a second pillar 

of income for the Company making up around one third of their total revenues. 

Košćal d.o.o., a Croatian manufacturer of 

Wooden pallets relies on long-term planning. 

Since the firm was established in 1994 it has developed 

from a tiny Company with two employees 

into a medium-sized Company, employing 80 

people. Several factors have been decisive for this 

growth. One of these is emphasised by Managing 

Director, Marko Košćal: “We are a typical family 

Company that was established by my father and 

in which I was already integrated in my youth. 

My father is still active in a consultancy role today 

and my wife and I look after the commercial 

aspects. All of us are completely committed to the 

Company.” 

Accordingly, it is very important for the ownerfamily 

that the Company runs well for all its employees 

and that their future is secure. This is one 

of the reasons that Košćal works at all times with 

a significant depth of production. This means: Tree 

trunks are purchased as raw materials that are 

sawed in the production area with band saws and 

multi-blade saws. Finally the standardised pallets 

are produced in two automated lines. “We deliver 

an average of 40,000 units per month”, explains 

Marko Košćal and continues “Special sizes are only 

seldom in demand. However, when required we 

produce such pallets and we operate a third line 

for this purpose on which we work in the classic 

way with hand tools”. 

The briquetting systems from RUF produce ever-consistent briquettes, fully automatically in dimensions of 150 x 60 mm. An employee is only needed for packaging. 


USER REPORT 

he start of 

Money is also earned with wood 

residuals 

During the cutting process of the individual 

wood elements, a huge amount of wood 

chips are produced; around 7,000 tons is the volume 

the Croatian Company have to deal with every 

year. However, this has not been a burden for 

the Košcals for many years now. This is because 

a significant amount of money has been earned 

with it. Previously, it was a case of getting rid of 

the wood residuals and having them collected as 

soon as possible. “We received a maximum of 20 

Euros per ton”, the Managing Director remembers: 

“It made no financial sense. And so we came up 

with the idea of processing the chips sensibly. We 

checked the outlet market for briquettes and it became 

instantly clear that a lot of fuel traders were 

convinced by RUF briquettes”. A few comparisons, 

a trade fair visit and some test pressings later, it 

was clear that RUF was the right partner for us. 

After that Košćal purchased their first two Presses 

in Bavarian Zaisertshofen. 

Over the years, the production of briquettes 

has become a second, important pillar, which 

currently brings in between eight and nine hundred 

thousand Euros per year. From a capacity 

point of view, the question of new briquetting 

systems arose in 2018. The boss of the Company 

was quickly able to answer the question as to who 

the supplier would be: “RUF”. A few months later 

the mechanical engineers from Zaisertshofen replaced 

the previous system with two new Lignum 

R6 Presses and commissioned them on-site. They 

have been fulfilling their purpose competently 

since then. 

RUF’s compact briquetting presses run 

fully automatically 

In the peak times of Autumn and Winter, the 

hydraulic machines run around the clock, 24/7, 

and are characterised by several inherent benefits. 

They need only a very small space of between two 

and three meters and still achieve a great throughput 

of about 670 kg/hr. per press. An engine output 

of 37 kW means the Lignum R6 has a maximum 

specific pressing power of 1,700 kg/cm 2 . It 

is also of particular benefit to Košćal, that RUF’s 

briquetting systems can press differing types of 

wood with different grain sizes, to high quality briquettes, 

without the machines having to be adjusted 

in advance. They operate without manual 

intervention, and in a fully automatic process, they 

create high quality, uniform briquettes with dimensions 

of 150 x 60 mm. The packaging is carried out 

by one employee per shift, who only needs 60 % of 

his working capacity however for this task. 

30 per cent increase in productivity 

through the new systems 

The lower maintenance effort and the good 

energy footprint of the new RUF presses are an important 

factor for Marko Košal, because it means 

running costs are low. However the high throughput 

and thereby expanded capacities convince the 

entrepreneur even more: “ We can now produce 

one third more briquettes than previously. To this 

end we often take sawdust from nearby sawmills. 

Even though this is mostly damp, it poses no problem 

for us.” The wood specialists simply mix the 

wet and dry chips and put them into the drum dryer 

from where they are transported via a suction 

pipe into chip silos. Screw conveyer mechanisms 

then bring them to the hopper of the briquetting 

system. 

Everything else occurs automatically in the 

two Lignum R6 presses. “The investment”, declares 

Marko Košćal, “was absolutely correct. I am 

convinced that we can significantly increase our 

annual capacity in briquette production from its 

current figure of 7,000 tons. The sales revenues 

are a bit dependent on when winter comes and 

how severe it will be. But I am assuming that the 

two systems will be amortised, at the latest, after 

sixteen months”. 

www.brikettieren.de 

Košćal d.o.o., Popovaća (Croatia), ... 

...was established by Zelimir Košćal in 1994. 

Today the Company is run by his son Marko 

Košćal and has revenues of about 2.5 million 

Euros per year, employing 80 employees. The 

Company produces Wooden pallets and also 

wood briquettes on hydraulic Press systems 

from RUF. Both products are purchased all 

over Europe and sold via an Agent’s network. 


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USER REPORT 

The bathroom furniture manufacturer Pelipal GmbH manufactures with whisper-quiet filter technology 

Looks good but can hardly be heard. This MultiStar purge air filter is acoustically barely audible at 35 dB(A). 

Bernd Osterloh (r.), Production manager at Pelipal with Christian Horns (l.), 

Project manager of Höcker Polytechnik. 

Sssshhhh! 

It is relatively difficult to explain how quiet, “Quiet” actually is. In any case, you should whisper when you explain it, so that you can hear 

just how quiet it is. A sound level of 35 dB(A) for example lies somewhere between whispering and the soft twittering of birds, a commercial 

vacuum cleaner is hard to miss with its 75 dB(A) and 115 dB(A) are not uncommon at rock concerts. Sometimes, there are things that one 

would have previously classified as loud, but are especially quiet - for example, a filter system. Höcker Polytechnik has achieved less than the 

magical 35 dB(A) limit and a total volume flow of 120,000 m 3 /h with a MultiStar vacuum filter system specially designed for noise reduction. 

This opens up completely new possibilities for companies who manufacture close to residential areas - meaning that three shift and weekend 

operation are possible. 

Premium quality bathroom furniture 

made in Schlangen - made by Pelipal 

Today near Paderborn, in the East Westphalian 

Schlangen, a whisper-quiet MultiStar filter does its 

job 24 hours a day at Pelipal GmbH. Pelipal GmbH 

is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of bathroom 

furniture and with a range from economical 

entry level to exclusive luxury bathroom furniture 

with multiple design awards, it ensures a pleasant 

and functional atmosphere in the European bathroom 

world. The family run company was founded 

in 1906, has over 550 employees at various locations 

and has had its headquarters in Schlangen 

since 1967. While 50 years ago it was not necessarily 

a problem to operate in direct proximity to 

residential areas, in recent years the legal provisions, 

sensitivity to noise and, last but not least, 

the much more powerful machinery have made it 

difficult to manufacture in such locations. Pelipal 

actively deals with these challenges and along 

with its machinery has modernised the filter technology. 

The investment in an extremely quiet exhaust 

system is intended to create reserve capacity 

and allow Pelipal to expand its production 

capacity. 

In 2016, the planning for the new filter system 

began. The existing MultiStar purging air filter system 

from Höcker Polytechnik had been providing 

perfect service at Pelipal for more than 12 years, 

but had hardly any reserve capacity for the future 

and more importantly: due to the construction and 

design, retrofitting of soundproofing components 

would not have been possible. A new filter system 

with reserve capacity and with all available 

noise reduction features was therefore absolutely 

necessary, since the only possible location of the 

filter was a mere 65 metres from the adjacent residential 

area. 


USER REPORT 

Perfect planning to get 

below the 35 dB(A) level 

Sebastian Fella, one of the managing directors 

of the Pelipal Group, comments: “We have been 

mastering the challenge of modern production at 

our special geographical location for several decades. 

Modern, high performance machinery is 

particularly important to us, since it is precisely humid 

bathroom areas which place the highest demands 

on material processing - after all, our customers 

should enjoy the product for a long time. 

And in order to meet the demand of our customers 

in a timely manner, the expansion of production 

capacity was particularly important to us. The 

topics of extraction and dedusting were important 

subjects for discussion during planning; Christian 

Horns from Höcker Polytechnik and his team assisted 

us in this. Together, we had to work hard to 

design a work of art, a new filter system with a capacity 

of 120.000 m 3 /h that under no circumstances 

would exceed a noise level of 35 dB(A). Our 

Production Manager Bernd Osterloh together with 

the Düsseldorf Institute for Sound Technology, 

Room Acoustics and Thermal Insulation (ISRW) 

Dr. Ing. Klapdor GmbH and the exhaust specialists 

from Höcker Polytechnik formed a think tank 

and began with the planning. Every source of 

noise, from the motor to the rotary valve had to 

be encapsulated in sound boxes as far as possible, 

resonances in the filter housing were to be 

minimised by intensive sound insulation, all pipework 

required noise insulation and all this had to 

be assembled in a constructively perfect way. We 

have been using the new filter system since August 

2017, it exhausts our machinery in an optimum 

way and works so quietly that operating noise is 

barely perceptible. All test measurements fell well 

below the level of 35 dB(A). Nothing now stands in 

the way of an expansion in production.” 

MultiStar purge air filter 

with integrated energy saving features 

Pelipal now operates a MultiStar purging air 

filter from Höcker Polytechnik with a filter surface 

of 1,244 m 2 . The required total volume flow 

of 120,000 m 3 /h are supplied by the six frequency 

controlled, energy efficient 37 kW fans (IE3) in 

the fan attachment module. An integrated heat recovery 

module with residual dust monitoring ensures 

additional economic gain, since the valuable 

heat energy of the dusty raw air extracted from the 

machines is largely retained. The filtered air is returned 

to the building during winter operation (residual 

dust content

USER REPORT 

Circular saw blades carve out a path for India’s 

economic boom 

For years, India‘s economy has been growing at a rapid pace. In 2014, the “Make in India” economic initiative was developed specifically for 

this purpose. One of the key manufacturers taking part in the initiative is Basco Tool Industries from Faridabad, to the south of New Delhi. The 

company manufactures carbide-tipped circular saw blades and has relied on sharpening technology from VOLLMER for more than 15 years. 

The Biberach-based specialist in grinding and erosion machines has previously supplied seven machines, including sharpening machines from 

the CP and CHP model series. 

common tooth geometries in just one cycle ‐ even 

when sawing with an axial angle and group toothing. 

The CP 200 machine is equipped with multiprocessor 

technology and integrated software 

programs. So, whether it’s tooth faces or tooth 

tops, the grinding speed can be freely selected 

and there’s no need to set tooth pitch or blade 

thickness. In addition to the sharpening machines, 

the service technicians at Basco Tool Industries 

have also received training at VOLLMER’s site in 

Biberach. 

Customers from the wood and metal 

industries 

”We are currently manufacturing around 3000 

carbide-tipped circular saw blades a month for 

companies in the wood and metal industry,” says 

Vikas Tiwari, CEO of Basco Tool Industries. ”Our 

vision is to not only increase the quality of products 

and services, but also achieve further growth. 

Specifically we want to produce at least 10,000 

saw blades per month within a few years.” 

More than 25 circular saw variants 

Basco Tool Industries’ ambitious goals reflect 

how the Indian economy looks. For two decades, 

the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown by 

more than seven per cent a year. Five years ago, 

the “Make in India” initiative was established in 

the country. The goal is to support Indian manufacturers 

to produce goods in their own nation. 

Employing around 20 people, Basco Tool 

Industries develops over 25 variants of carbidetipped 

circular saw blades for Indian manufacturers, 

which they then use to process plywood, solid 

wood, wood composites, plastics and aluminium. 

Good links between Germany and India 

Economic life is booming in the neighbourhood 

around Basco Tool Industries with small 

workshops, medium-sized factories and large manufacturing 

companies, all witnessing prolonged 

growth. Many global companies have regional 

subsidiaries in Faridabad, including German companies 

such as the agricultural machinery manufacturer 

Claas and technology firm Voith. German 

workmanship also plays a key role at Basco Tool 

Industries, since the company relies on machines 

from the Swabian sharpening specialist VOLLMER 

to sharpen its carbide-tipped circular saw blades. 

“The connections between Faridabad and 

Germany have been successful and strong for decades. 

For that reason, it was clear to us from 

the start that we, too, could rely on German quality 

for our machines,” says Vikas Tiwari. “Our 

first VOLLMER sharpening machine arrived from 

Biberach back in 2003. Now there are seven machines 

that we use to manufacture circular saws 

and tools around the clock.” 

Growth with VOLLMER sharpening 

technology 

VOLLMER has sent equipment that includes a 

CHP 840 and two CP 200 sharpening machines 

on the 6000-kilometre journey to Faridabad. With 

the CHP 840, carbide-tipped circular saws can 

be sharpened in a single set-up. Its four CNCcontrolled 

axes allow complete machining of all 

The customers of Basco Tool Industries are primarily 

based in the north and east of India. Apart 

from circular saws and tools, the company also offers 

a range of services including tool re-sharpening, 

tool repairs and technical consultation. The 

customers from the wood and metal industries are 

supported with training, to help them design efficient 

and profitable production processes for furniture, 

windows and doors with technologies from 

Basco Tool Industries. The aim is to establish additional 

regional distribution and service centres 

and ultimately become the leading manufacturer 

of carbide-tipped circular saws in India. 

www.vollmer-group.de 


USER REPORT 

Automated veneer handling - sheet by sheet 

With the help of Piab’s Kenos KVG area gripper, Heinrich Kuper GmbH carries out veneer sorting systems. The biggest challenge was to pick 

up split and perforated sheets one by one with a vacuum Smart solutions for the automated worldTM gripping system. Piab’s innovative and 

fine tuneable vacuum technology makes such sensitive handling possible. 

The plant from above. 

The veneer sheets in the double compartments are handled 

with vacuum with the Kenos ® KVG gripper from Piab. 

In the furniture and flooring industry, more 

and more veneers are being used, both for cost 

and weight reasons. Real wood veneers, cut from 

a tree trunk, continue to be used, especially for 

high-quality products. The Kuper company builds 

appropriate systems to sort and assemble the veneers 

into the desired stacks or to deliver them directly 

to production. 

Raw, cut to size, or glued veneers are placed 

on a distribution table with ten double compartments. 

An employee in the production department 

places the veneers of the delivered bundles 

of sheets, package by package, on one side of 

the double compartment. When this is full, Piab’s 

Kenos KVG gripper starts lifting the sheets one by 

one from the respective stack. When the sheet is 

secured by vacuum, it is transferred to the pickup 

unit of a second gripper, which mechanically 

clamps the sheet and pulls it into the system for 

sorting or loading. In the meantime, the employee 

can fill the other compartment, so that the individual 

veneer sheets can be automatically removed 

without interruption. 

Mr. Manuel Duebeler, one of the system designers 

at Kuper, explains: “The big challenge for 

us was to find a gripper that was able to pick up 

only one sheet at a time, regardless of whether it 

is intact or split or has holes in it. Our first attempts 

failed, which is why it helped us enormously when 

one of our customers referred us to Piab because 

he had good experiences with veneer handling 

with their Kenos grippers.“ 

”The Kenos ® KVG gripper from Piab that was 

chosen offers a high degree of flexibility and in 

particular allows the handling of products of different 

compactness. With the help of flow valves 

and a flow limitation, the integrated vacuum generation 

with Piab’s innovative multi-stage COAX ® 

technology can be precisely adapted to the vacuum 

requirements. In this way, it was possible to 

exactly match the level of vacuum generation to 

the veneer sheets and to balance the performance 

needed for handling air-permeable sheets with the 

requirement of picking up just one sheet at a time,” 

explains Hasan Simsek, responsible sales engineer 

at Piab, the reasons for the product selection. 

In addition, the gripper was designed in such 

a way that there is an intermediate blowing over 

the entire length of the sheet when it is picked up, 

so that the veneer sheet is briefly in the air. This 

process also ensures that only one sheet is lifted 

per pick. 

To ensure that Piab’s gripper met expectations, 

several tests were carried out in advance, 

first at Piab, then at a test facility at Kuper. 

“The Kenos ® KVG gripper from Piab convinced 

us on the one hand because it was the only one 

that was able to reliably and continuously pick up 

The veneer sheet is taken over by the pick-up unit of the second 

gripper. 

the sheets individually. With a working width of 

330 mm and a total width of 350 mm, the gripper 

can pick up all veneers with a width of 230 mm to 

330 mm. The gripper is positioned so that it only 

handles veneers from one compartment. When a 

compartment is empty, the entire magazine moves 

over to the other side and the gripper removes the 

veneers from the compartment that has been filled 

in the meantime, ”continues Dübeler and adds,” 

the cooperation with Piab was also excellent. The 

gripper was adapted exactly to our needs, which 

also included the dimensioning of the length of 

350 mm. ” 

Piab’s Kenos vacuum grippers are also characterized 

by low downtimes during maintenance, 

since the technical foam that forms the surface can 

be replaced in a few minutes. With the online configurator, 

customers can quickly define a possible 

solution. 

www.piab.com 


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DECORS 

Places of tomorrow Schattdecor at the SICAM 2019 

Urban Styles 

Under the motto “One Source. Unlimited Solutions”, Schattdecor now captured the megatrend of urbanization at their booth at SICAM. 

The mission: To develop modern surfaces for their customers that go beyond the home. 

Living, residing and working in the big city is 

very much in vogue. Where many people meet, 

new concepts and versatile surfaces have to be 

used. Our international trend research shows: 

More and more people are drawn to the big cities. 

Modern decorative surfaces must meet new needs 

and trends. In popular metropolitan areas, they 

can contribute to the feeling of coziness, lightness, 

and versatility. Speaking of lightness, we are seeing 

a new trend here: e-commerce. 

Highlights and Innovations 

Smart furnishings, cleverly used storage 

space in combination with homey, bright surfaces 

ensure a great sense of well-being even in 

small rooms. 

Coliving is aimed at professionals, creative 

people, start-ups and urban nomads. This flexible 

concept offers fully functioning living spaces, temporary 

rentals, and a life without material ballast. 

Our decor highlights: 

Pacific Cherry meets the demand for softly textured 

fruitwoods. As the name suggests, our team 

designed this decor to replicate an elegant cherry 

tree wood. The layout is notable for its subtle 

planking, little inlays, and knots. The digitally 

generated gray shade also adds something a bit 

unique. This decor works beautifully with kitchen 

or bedroom furniture. 

Amberwood had been in its original place 

for centuries, supporting the foundations of 

Polish warehouse facilities that date back to 

sometime between the 13th and 16th century. 

Over time, they became submerged deeper 

in the water, eventually forming the construction 

supporting the entire harbor infrastructure. 

The effects of extremely heavy loads combined 

with erratic and extreme weather conditions 

caused the wood to alter as the years went 

by. Its dense growth rings took on characteristic 

coloring and the naturally nuanced, yellowishgreen 

contrasts between the gray tones brought 

about an attractive finish. 

The expansive layout of Delano Oak, with 

its appearance reminiscent of wide solid-wood 

planks, is both clearly structured and dynamic at 

the same time. Its rough, rustic features, resulting 

particularly from its distinctive cracks and knots, 

are what make this furniture decor so special. 

Light and dark areas of color mimic natural wood 

patterns. 

Tropea Oak is another decor that reflects the 

unwavering oak trend. In this context, the developers 

skillfully accentuated the striated surface 

and created a natural yet striking dynamic effect 

in the lines. The result is a modern look, alternating 

between wide and fine growth rings. The fine 

and very modern looking material has been partially 

brushed. Tropea Oak meets the demand for 

linear woods that bring a subtle change to small 

rooms and can, for example, also be used beautifully 

in recreational vehicles. 

www.schattdecor.de 


DECORS 

"Boudica Oak" shows true character by its very fine wood grain and unmistakable growth marks and is the perfect companion in real oak colours, in rooms inspired by nature. 

Impress at ZOW 2020 

Ideal location, perfect timing 

The decor specialist impress once again exhibited 

at the East-Westphalia (ZOW) supplier 

fair in Bad Salzuflen in 2020. From 4 to 6 

February 2020 impress presented its new 

and further developed design concept I‘m 

Pulse to the German furniture and kitchen 

industry. Visitors could experience the latest 

decors, both individually and in use, whether 

as wall designs, furniture decors or kitchen 

fronts, at the approximately 60 square metre 

fair booth. 

ZOW is an event in a communicative workshop 

atmosphere that invites inspiration, networking 

and discussion. Impress likes to use this focused 

industry meeting in the heart of the German 

furniture industry to - following the philosophy of 

the current design concept I‘m Pulse - give new impulses 

for decor decisions in the coming years in 

intensive discussions and exchanges with customers 

as well as to take fresh impulses with them. 

Permanent changes, various incentives and inspirations 

influence us every day. Even if we all perceive 

the same impulses, we often feel them very 

differently. This is also reflected in our homes and 

how we want to be furnished. Whether industrially 

rustic, urbanly elegant or naturally modern: instead 

of only being inspired by one trend, our lifestyle 

- quite individually - shows itself in a mixture 

of the most diverse design styles. impress takes up 

this diversity under the heading ”Welcome Home“ 

and, with I‘m Pulse at ZOW, presented its authentic, 

contemporary decors for tomorrow‘s modern 

interior design. 

Behind the name impress stands a globally 

successful company that is engaged in the development 

and manufacture of trend-oriented woodbased 

surfaces for the furniture and flooring industry 

as well as modern interior finishing. The trendsetting 

decors for the design of tomorrow are created 

in-house. They are based on trends that are 

continuously and interdisciplinary determined by 

excellently networked internal scouts on a global 

level. The full-service provider‘s product portfolio 

includes decor papers, finish foils and melamineimpregnated 

papers. As a market leader in the industry, 

impress supplies well-known customers all 

over the world with the latest design trends. 

www.impress.biz 


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SURFACES 

RENOLIT Colour Road 

A journey through the world of scents 

The sense of smell is a direct gateway to the world of human emotion. As the most immediate of all the five senses, it is also the most important 

one for our social life and, last but not least, even for our very survival. With the title, “Scent of Colours”, the RENOLIT 2020/21 trend 

report emotionally captivates the reader and is at the same time a useful guide through the multitude of current trend inspirations. 

Photos: RENOLIT SE 

Every scent is coded in our subconscious and 

forms the basis for decisions made within a matter 

of seconds. Around 50 million olfactory receptors 

are directly connected to our cranial nerves and to 

a gigantic database of experiences and emotions. 

“The associated colour shades are also stored in 

this database. Colours are scents made visible, 

translations and bearers of a scent message,” is 

how Verena Mundle from the Colour Road team 

describes the enigmatic influence of emotional 

signals. If a person associates a scent with a certain 

product or colour then they will remember 

it ten times longer, as the Bochum olfactory researcher 

Hanns Hatt discovered. It’s no wonder 

that millions are invested in the research and development 

of scents that can influence decisions 

to purchase. 

So, it takes a good nose to put the Colour 

Road trend report and the corresponding trend 

colours together, as the latest 2020/21 issue 

proves. Lavender and rose scents entice in the 

“Temptation” trend world. In the trend subject 

“Appreciation”, complex scents of velvety, elegant 

wines and aromatic, roasted coffee beans please 

the senses while “Vitalization” sweeps the reader 

away to places with memorable scent experiences. 

Monika Haag, Head of Corporate Design 

Management at the RENOLIT Group, believes that 

such emotional experiences will be increasingly 

important in the future: “The more anonymous 

everything becomes in our digitalised daily lives, 

the more people seek authenticity and a desire to 

explore personal sensations.” 

www.renolit.com/colourroad 

Temptation 

The visual impressions of Wild Rose, Lavender, 

Lemon and Orange are each directly tied to a distinct 

scent. Noble Wild Rose delicately balances 

sophisticated grandeur with a velvety warmth that 

envelops the skin. The new trend colour Wild Rose 

Supermatt captures this elegance, emphasised by 

the fine supermatt surface. The pink shade with 

slight blue tones perfectly complements light or 

grey décors. 

Lavender, on the other hand, is a gentle invitation 

to linger peacefully, relaxing and healing 

at the same time. The classic purple Lavender 

Supermatt also welcomes - providing a distinctive 

accent that goes well with the harmonious, warm 

brown tone of oak. 

In combination with a clear design, these 

colours - along with Lemon Supermatt and HG 

Gerbera - add targeted statements to living spaces. 

Reserved designs and medium brown oak decor 

present a contrast to the vibrant colour shades 

and create a pleasant balance. 


SURFACES 

Appreciation 

“Appreciation” is the trend world with predominantly 

neutral shades and complex scents. A good 

Bordeaux contains up to 400 aromatic compounds 

and a single coffee bean over 800 ‐ two symbols of 

the various ways love and appreciation are expressed. 

Both products stand for extraordinary taste paired 

with craftsmanship and a love for detail, and the passion 

of an experienced producer. 

People today make conscious decisions about 

what and how they consume. Sensuous taste experience 

is accompanied by a sense of responsibility, 

appreciation and a good conscience with regard to fair 

production ‐ this is expressed in the shades Almond 

Supermatt and Cubanit Grey Suedette Matt in this 

colour world. The sophisticated examples of this colour 

world are the muted red HG Bordeaux with highgloss 

surface and the precious Bronze Metallic. 

The trend colours of “Appreciation” form a stage 

for timeless design solutions, which - inspired by 

natural stone or ceramics - create a warming atmosphere 

of well-being with their neutral tones matched 

with high quality materials such as dark marble or refined 

surfaces, which combine elegance, durability 

and value. 

Vitalization 

The ocean stands for freshness, open space and vitalization. 

Taking a deep, fulfilling breath, you can relax 

and slow your pace; everything is blue. Blue is the 

colour, scent and state of being. The fresh green of the 

Swiss pine is a casual partner; its scent energises and 

clears the mind. This is accompanied by lemongrass, an 

evergreen native to Asia that is used as a spice and medicinal 

plant. It not only promotes health and uplifts the 

mood but is also used as an invigorating ingredient in 

facial lotions, bath and aromatherapy oils. 

Symbolising blue in this colour world is the fresh, 

bright Ocean Breeze Supermatt, with its small amount 

of red taking away the coolness. The range of green 

tones is marked by two contrasts: With its high yellow 

content, Lemongrass Supermatt is an extremely bright 

and fresh green. Whereas Pine Green Supermatt has 

only a slight yellowish tinge and triumphs as a sophisticated 

green tone with depth. Bridging the gap 

between green and blue is the understated trend 

colour Acai Berry Supermatt. 

The blue and green shades of “Vitalization” perfectly 

pair with equally natural and stimulating decor 

partners: wood, either natural or in subtle grey 

shades, provides a fresh touch and creates a cosy 

feeling of home. 


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SURFACES 

New product thanks to digital printing: Digital staining 

Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLE) is a patented, in-house development of Hymmen GmbH Maschinen- und Anlagenbau and is the first method 

which uses digital printing technology for something other than “painting pretty pictures”. A new product has been created; a digitally 

applied UV protective lacquer. Much like with this technology, Hymmen has developed another method which can create completely new 

products. It will lead to completely new product opportunities, in particular in the parquet industry. 

Benefits of digital printing 

Digital printing provides some basic essential 

benefits: it enables industrial production of 

small batch sizes, the embedding of digital print 

in process chains in the decor industry, individualized 

mass production, speedy reaction to market 

trends, short retooling times and low warehouse 

costs. Digital printing creates products 

which would be impossible with analog technology. 

Extra-long pattern repeats, designs with 25 

or more different boards, without repetition and 

designs with motifs which spread over multiple 

boards (logos, mosaic etc.) are just a few examples 

of decorative options. It is fair to say that printing 

decorative designs digitally with CMYK inks has 

become more or less established. The production 

of digitally printed flooring with Hymmen JUPITER 

printing lines alone is estimated at 70 million m²/ 

year. 

Digital structure printing 

The digital structuring of surfaces (DLE) is 

a very new technology. One of the most important 

properties, alongside the appearance of the 

flooring, is quite definitely the surface structure. 

However, the flexibility of digital printing is confronted 

by the inflexibility of the analog structuring 

processes. When it comes to appearance, decorative 

designs can be changed without losing time, 

pattern repeats can be infinitely long etc., as already 

mentioned. 

When it comes to the surface feel, the analog 

structuring processes cannot keep up the pace. 

This is where Hymmen’s patented, in-house development 

Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLE) comes 

into play. It can be connected directly to a JUPITER 

digital printing line or even be used for digital 

structuring of surfaces printed and lacquered in 

other ways. 

the DLE machine technology already developed, a 

method has been created and the patent is already 

pending. 

In the first step, the wood is fine-ground in 

order to reduce standing fibers. Digital printing is 

then used to apply a highly transparent ink to the 

areas which are not to be stained. The ink is cured 

and the stain is then applied and distributed. A 

topcoat is finally applied to seal and protect the 

wood. 

The applied ink layer is very thin (5-8 µm) 

and can be removed with a fine “cleaning grind”, 

meaning that a second passage with another 

stain color or treatment with an open-pored seal 

is possible. 

Design options 

At the beginning, every new technology is 

faced with the same challenge: how do you bring 

together this new technology with existing products? 

And this is where you have to think outside 

the box. It isn‘t always necessary to replace 

existing solutions with new technology. New technology 

can create something new or just something 

extra. 

www.hymmen.com 

Board with crack (before, digital printing mask, after). 

Flooring with lines and logo. 

The basic idea of DLE has now been picked up 

on in order to create a further product which previously 

was only possible to produce with analog 

techniques: furniture finishes and flooring which 

are decorated with a stain. 

Formerly, staining was only ever possible over 

the entire product surface. The only way to include 

patterns and shapes in the design was by masking. 

Taking this method as inspiration, and using 

Floor at the Ligna show. 


EVENTS 

Focus Components area 

Focus Components is the new "business event" created within Xylexpo 2020; organized in collaboration with Made expo, it is an exhibition 

area dedicated to semifinished materials, components and consumables for furniture, a world-class showcase to exhibit your production and 

provide visitors - mostly furniture manufacturers - with an all-round view of the entire wood value chain. 

Focus Components is a turning point for Xylexpo, a real platform for the Production "4.0" of furniture and interior decorations with a focus on the industry, 

while offering an opportunity of in-depth information and professional update to architects and designers. 

www.xylexpo.com 

Giampiero Mauri innovation center trade day 

Some forty agents and distributors from all over the world met last December at the headquarters of Giardina Group in Figino Serenza, in the 

province of Como. 

There are many reasons behind the choice to 

invite their distribution network to Italy, to the factory 

where finishing and drying equipment is designed, 

manufactured and tested. 

Most important is the ‘official inauguration’ 

for the ‘Giampiero Mauri Innovation Center’ 

business network, a 2,500-square-meter facility 

with meeting and training rooms surrounding a 

1,500-square-meter showroom/workshop which 

includes all the operational technologies of the 

Giardina Group. 

“This was a very important moment for us”, 

declared Stefano and Riccardo Mauri, owners of 

the company. “We have put on display the fruit of 

a determined approach that allows us to have an 

effective centre where today all our skills are made 

explicit and available. A place that we have officially 

opened to our worldwide sales network because 

it is, and must always be, available to them, 

so that they may illustrate what we know and 

what we can do to their customers”. 

This event ended an excellent 2019 for the 

group, which has seen a significant increase in 

sales, even at a time that many judged and experienced 

as being rather stable. “We have reached 20 

million euros, and the orders we have for delivery 

in the coming months are giving us a very positive 

outlook for 2020”, added the two brothers. 

“Our technologies and, more importantly, the 

quality of our excimer solutions allows us to be the 

ideal leading partner in many countries around the 

world today”, commented Stefano Tibè, Giardina 

Group sales manager. 

www.giardinagroup.com 

11th European TMT Workshop 

In 2003, some years after the first introduction of thermally modified timber (TMT), the IHD started to organise the European TMT Workshop 

as a specific workshop focused to this material. In the same year, the European Conference on Wood Modification (ECWM) was established. 

Both conferences can look back to many successful events, but on the other hand, the technical and economic conditions of thermally and 

chemically modified wood changed continuously. For instance, a number of manufacturers appeared, but some disappeared. 

After meanwhile 10 TMT Workshops, the 

time has come to rethink the concept, particularly 

in light of ECWM, with a very similar content 

and target group. In result, we decided to 

finish the TMT Workshop series and to merge it 

into ECWM in the near future. 

This idea was proposed to the board of 

ECWM, together with the suggestion to organise 

the next but one ECWM conference 2022 in 

Dresden, as a joint conference. The Institute of 

Wood Technology Dresden (IHD) invites home 

and foreign speakers on 14 - 15 May 2020 to 

the 11th European TMT Workshop to Dresden. 

Conference language is English. 

Registrations are possible not later than 

4 May 2020 by using the online form. 

www.ihd-dresden.de 


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FAIRS 

The trend is in the detail 

The world of interiors is in a state of flux. 

Increasingly urban and mobile lifestyles and 

the desire for individualisation call for new 

solutions. More and more people want a 

living environment that can be adapted to 

their own needs, creating a demand for flexible, 

versatile concepts and making each 

furnishing element all the more significant. 

Customised and innovative details are what 

make individual ways of living possible in the first 

place. ZOW focused on such components for the 

furniture industry and interior design. The supplier 

fair in Bad Salzuflen showed the new developments 

for the lifestyles of tomorrow. Renowned 

market leaders and small manufacturers were 

there to present their pioneering product developments. 

A special focus was placed here on socalled 

“hidden ideas” - groundbreaking solutions 

on a small scale that are quickly overlooked at 

large industry events. 

Flexible, bespoke solutions 

Today, customising processes mean that products 

can be adapted in line with personal preferences. 

For the interiors sector, such design freedom 

is increasingly gaining in importance. On 

the one hand, the individualisation megatrend is 

changing the demands we are placing on our personal 

environments, with consumers wanting to 

configure their interiors to suit their own lifestyles. 

On the other hand, increasing urbanisation calls 

for adaptable design. Adjustable furniture and interiors 

elements should enable high-quality living 

for different needs and room sizes. Flexible and 

bespoke furniture or furnishing systems are therefore 

a major growth market. From global players 

to start-ups ‐ exhibitors at ZOW drove this development 

forward with new furniture components and 

furnishing systems. 

Great diversity for design freedom 

In one example, internationally established 

printer of decorative finishes Interprint is breaking 

free from the traditional collection concept to 

showcase something totally new at ZOW. “Press 

Play” is an ever-expanding “decor playlist”, which 

was presented live for the first time at the trade 

fair. Interprint is using its “decor playlist” to meet 

the need for custom design in order to be able to 

react flexibly to new developments and trends at 

any time. 

www.zow.de 

INDIAWOOD 2020 

Asia’s largest platform driving the Indian 

furniture manufacturing and woodworking 

industry to emerge as one of the top manufacturing 

destinations in the region. 

FIMMA – Maderalia 

As Asia’s largest woodworking exhibition 

IW has always been setting higher benchmarks 

for the industry to follow. The 11th edition of 

INDIAWOOD under NürnbergMesse is all set to 

create an international standard experience with 

a targeted approach in bringing all stakeholders 

together to create a uniformity in the industry. 

INDIAWOOD is one of three trade shows in 

India that NürnbergMesse acquired in 2018; together 

with HOLZ-HANDWERK, they make up the 

“Woodworking Events” family of products, collectively 

accounting for about 2,000 exhibitors and 

200,000 trade visitors. INDIAWOOD 2020, to be 

held under the auspices of NürnbergMesse India, 

is looking forward to host more than 875+ exhibitors 

from 50+ countries over 65000 + square meters 

in Bengaluru ‐ something that has never been 

experienced before. 

Taking steps in Furniture Manufacturing 

Tech: 

Smart factories can possibly change the Indian 

furniture manufacturing industry. Latest tech is 

profoundly productive and progressive for the all 

categories of furniture producers to accomplish 

their business objectives. Likewise, the time is crucial 

for the furniture manufacturers to have a better 

understanding of the digital space and how 

beneficial it is for maximum reach and to make 

India the top manufacturing hub of the world. 

This edition of INDIAWOOD exhibition is going 

to be the biggest ever woodworking industry 

show in India. The demographics of the visitors 

are furniture manufacturers, kitchen manufacturers, 

saw millers, board manufacturers, fittings 

and component manufactures, traders, architects, 

builders and interior designers who can look forward 

to the latest in technologies, materials and 

innovations once again at this edition. 

www.indiawood.com 

FIMMA ‐ Maderalia is putting the final touches to this next edition of the fair, which takes place from 10th to 13th March at Feria Valencia. 

This edition is raising high expectations, not just amongst Spain’s manufacturers and professionals but also in the international marketplace, 

which has shown renewed interest in Spain’s biennial fair. 

One good example of this is that the upcoming 

fair boasts the biggest offering of recent years 

in terms of the number of foreign exhibitors. The 

most recent figures indicate a total of 132 foreign 

exhibitors, 15 % more than at the last edition of 

the fair ‐ and it is of course quite possible that yet 

more companies will come on board. 

What this means is that the fair’s international 

content has grown from just under 25 % last time 

round to more than 30 % of the total offering this 

year. In other words, almost one in every three exhibitors 

is a foreign company. The number of countries 

contributing to this percentage has grown 

too, standing now at 17: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, 

the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, 

India, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, 

Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the 

USA. The countries of North Africa, the EU (especially 

France and Portugal), Latin America, the 

Balkan countries and Sub-Saharan Africa have 

been the priority target markets for the trade missions 

organised by Feria Valencia and trade associations 

ARVET and AFEMMA. 

It has to be pointed out that, with 38 companies 

exhibiting, Italy is the foreign country with 

the most product on show, followed by Germany 

and Portugal. 

In terms of visitors, FIMMA ‐ Maderalia has 

given its international buyer recruitment campaign 

a significant boost ahead of this year’s show. It has 

rolled out a number of promotional initiatives as 

well as arranging trade missions to countries considered 

to be key target markets for the exhibitors 

at this year’s fair. 

www.fimma-maderalia.com 


FAIRS 

8th World’s leading trade fair for industrial coating technologies 

Surface finishing is the decisive criterion for the success of products, and thus for a company’s competitive edge. Consequently, industrial 

coating technologies make an essential contribution to value creation. Companies with in-house painting operations and coating job-shops 

are faced with changing and new requirements as a result, which necessitate corresponding process adjustments. PaintExpo will present the 

world’s most comprehensive and future-oriented solutions to this end at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre from the 21th through the 24th of 

April, 2020. The exhibition portfolio covers everything from pre-treatment, right on up to quality control and packaging. 

Companies in all industry sectors are currently 

being confronted with a wide variety of trends 

and changes. Amongst others these include new 

manufacturing technologies, the use of new and 

modified materials and material combinations, the 

realignment of entire industry sectors, shortened 

product lifecycles and smaller lot quantities, personalisation 

of products, regulatory changes, the 

digital transformation and more rigorous goals 

with regard to energy efficiency and climate protection. 

Industrial coating technology is being impacted 

by this as well. 

High levels of complexity necessitate 

comprehensive information 

Although some of the issues are by no means 

new, the competitiveness of coating operations 

will increasingly depend on how well and quickly 

they can respond to these changes. As a prerequisite, 

the coating process has to be adapted 

or optimised. The great complexity of painting 

and coating processes with numerous interlinking 

work steps makes comprehensive information 

concerning trends, technologies, new developments 

and the suppliers throughout the entire process 

sequence indispensable. PaintExpo will present 

a corresponding cross-technology, cross-industry 

overview with more comprehensive and upto-date 

offerings than anywhere else in the world. 

The portfolio covers all process sequences for 

powder coating, liquid and UV painting and coil 

coating technologies. The spectrum of materials 

to be coated ranges from metals, plastics, wood, 

wooden materials, glass and ceramics, right on up 

to material combinations. 

From pre-treatment to quality control 

Exhibitors will present future-oriented solutions 

for meeting the increasing demands now being 

placed on quality, flexibility and productivity, 

as well as material, energy and cost-efficiency. For 

example, these include new and further developments 

for classic wet chemical pre-treatment, as 

well as alternative processes. New and optimised 

solutions, including the simulation of painting and 

coating processes, provide for improved energy 

and material-efficiency in the fields of equipment 

and application technology. Attention is also being 

focused on increasing flexibility and productivity 

in this regard. Improved energy-efficiency 

is also the primary focus of solutions for conventional 

circulating-air drying, as well as alternative 

methods such as IR, condensation and UV drying. 

Robot painting is playing an increasingly important 

role for mid-sized and small painting operations 

in order to ensure reproducibly high quality. 

New automation concepts make it possible for 

these companies to get started with flexible, costeffective 

solutions. 

www.paintexpo.com 

First signals for Xylexpo 2020. Introducing Focus Components. 

We are moving fast towards the next Xylexpo, the international showcase of wood and furniture technologies and supplies, that for the first 

time will span four days (from Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 May 2020), instead of five. This change has been appreciated by the industry, as witnessed 

by early registrations that have been submitted slightly "in advance" compared to the past, a signal that the renewed commitment of 

the biennial exhibition is being recognized. Many industry "big" players have already sent their application forms: Biesse, Cefla, Homag, Ima, 

SCM, Weinig are leading the group of companies that will attend the exhibition in Milan next May. 

“We really feel that our determination to reaffirm 

the exhibition's role has been readily recognized”, 

said Lorenzo Primultini, president of 

Xylexpo. 

“The decision of many companies to come to 

Milan witnesses to the effectiveness of an exhibition 

that we want to focus more and more on the 

quality of the solutions on display, on the most advanced 

technologies, on real integrated systems. 

Xylexpo will show the woodworking business and 

furniture production under a new light, following 

the momentous change of Industry 4.0". 

After the new calendar and the new logo, 

the third piece of news is the debut of “Focus 

Components”, an area dedicated to supplies, components 

and semifinished materials for the furniture 

industry, “…a business dominated by excellent 

exhibitions, but we believe that in Milan, in a 

totally different setting and in close synergy with 

technology, this business can find new and different 

opportunities”, Primultini added. 

The new format is a collaboration with Made 

Expo, that will contribute not only with their experience 

and close relationship with architecture and 

construction players, but also with the "common 

language" shared with many companies and big 

industry players. 

The project will revolve around the possibility 

for exhibitors to have a dedicated area, choosing 

the most effective option to introduce their products, 

their strategies and their organization. “We do not 

want to run after records or to venture into new territories 

where we don't belong, but we want to respond 

to those who have always appreciated the opportunity 

to fin materials and technologies in one 

place”, Primultini concluded. 

www.xylexpo.com 


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Guide to Products and Manufacturers 

Manufacturer 

Products 

Electronic Wood Systems GmbH 

Robert-Henseling-Str. 1, 31789 Hameln 

Germany 

Tel: +49 5151 5574-0 

Fax: +49 5151 5574-222 

Email: info@electronic-wood-systems.de 

Measuring systems for the panel industry 

Thickness gauges and blow detection systems 

Area weight measurement 

Foreign body detection for mat 

Density profile measurement for Laboratory 

Spark extinguishing systems 

www.electronic-wood-systems.com 

ELKOM-Elektroheizplatten-Technik GmbH 

Oberbecksener Str. 80, 32547 Bad Oeynhausen 

Germany 

Tel: +49 5731 7782-0 

Fax: +49 5731 7782-12 

Email: elkom@elkom.de 

www.elkom.de 

Cooling plates 

Fluid medium plates 

Heating plates 

Preheating station for solid surface and thermoplastics 

Thermoforming station for solid surface and thermoplastics 

Vacuum plates 

Vacuum tables 

euroTECH Vertriebs GmbH 

Dammstr. 1, 72351 Geislingen 

Germany 

Tel: +49 7433 90468-0 

Fax: +49 7433 90468-13 

Email: info@etvac.de 

Customized plant engineering 

Transportation and handling equipment 

Vacuum components 

www.etvac.de 

Fagus-GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG 

Hannoversche Str. 58, 31061 Alfeld 

Germany 

Tel: +49 5181 79-0 

Fax: +49 5181 79-229 

Email: marketing@fagus-grecon.com 

Automatic woodinspection machines, scanners 

Density profile measurement 

Fire protection for industrial risks 

Measuring systems for the panel industry 

Moisture meters, in-line type for boards or veneer 

Spark extinguishing systems 

www.fagus-grecon.com 

Höcker Polytechnik GmbH 

Borgloher Str. 1, 49176 Hilter 

Germany 

Tel: +49 5409 405-0 

Fax: +49 5409 405-595 

Email: info@hpt.net 

Briquetting press 

Cyclone separator 

Dust extractor 

Industrial fan 

Paint booth 

www.hoecker-polytechnik.com 

HOLZ-HER GmbH 

Plochinger Str. 65, 72666 Nürtingen 

Germany 

Tel: +49 7022 702-0 

Fax: +49 7022 702-101 

Email: kontakt@holzher.com 

www.holzher.de 

Edgebanding 

CNC machining centres 

Panel saws

Guide to Products and Manufacturers 

Manufacturer 

Products 

Hymmen GmbH 

Maschinen- und Anlagenbau 

Theodor-Hymmen-Str. 3, 33613 Bielefeld 

Germany 

Tel: +49 521 5806-516 

Fax: +49 521 5806-3145 

Email: sales@hymmen.com 

www.hymmen.com 

Industrial digital printing lines 

Lacquering and liquid coating machines 

Laminating presses 

Presses, multiopening 

Presses, continuous 

Printing machines, direct 

Leitz GmbH & Co. KG 

Leitzstr. 2, 73447 Oberkochen 

Germany 

Tel: +49 7364 950-0 

Fax: +49 7364 950-662 

Email: leitz@leitz.org 

Tools and tooling systems for the processing of wood, 

wood-products, and plastics 

www.leitz.org 

Ledermann GmbH & Co. KG 

Willi-Ledermann-Str. 1, 72160 Horb a. N. 

Germany 

Tel: +49 7451 93-0 

Fax: +49 7541 93-270 

Email: info@leuco.com 

www.leuco.com 

TC and DP tipped machine tools for processing wood, 

wooden and composite panels, plastics and NF-materials, 

tool management & service 

Michael Weinig AG 

Michael-Weinig-Str. 2-4, 97941 Tauberbischofsheim 

Germany 

Tel: +49 9341 86-0 

Fax: +49 9341 7080 

Email: info@weinig.com 

Planers and molders 

www.weinig.com 

Reichenbacher Hamuel GmbH 

Postfach 28, 96487 Dörfles-Esbach 

Germany 

Tel: +49 9561 599-0 

Fax: +49 9561 599-199 

Email: info@reichenbacher.de 

CNC-Machining centres 

CNC-Processing centres 

CNC-Routers 

Drilling systems 

Milling machines 

www.reichenbacher.de 

Your company is missing? 

You want more product listings or your logo has to be included in the 2019 edition? 

Get in touch with us and we will be happy to assist you in any way! 

win@harnisch.com

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