Panels & Furniture Asia May/June 2022

FURNITURE MANUFACTURING
incorporated snipping and sanding
units in addition to edgebanding
and flush trimming. Today, up to 15
units are installed on these types of
machines, allowing workpieces to be
processed in a way that makes them
ready for installation.
To offer smaller furniture companies a
suitable edgebanding machine, HOMAG
launched the KH 10-13 series in 1973.
These machines were offered with two
different gluing stations to allow coil
material, solid edges and pre-coated
edges to be processed.
1
Legend
1 HOMAG’s firstever
edgebanding
machine for
the hot-cold
application
process
2 The KF 60
3 The powerLine
series
4 The Ambition
series
At the 1975 LIGNA trade fair, HOMAG
presented the cold-glue activation
process to the industry for the first time
— a technology for edge gluing using
polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) glue.
The following year, a majority stake
was acquired in Heinrich Brandt, later
BRANDT. This move strengthened
HOMAG’s position in the woodworking
sector.
2
In 1982, a new generation of
edgebanding machines, the KL 70, was
shown at a trade fair for woodcraft
in Munich, Germany. Fundamental
innovations in construction, versatility
and work safety were implemented
in these machines, particularly
the mechanical air-supported chip
removal, which was integrated into
the stand and reduced required
suction power by 70%. The machine
was further developed to become, for
example, the KL 70 Optimat in 1995.
3
In 1999, HOMAG launched its
powerLine series, a range of doublesided
machines designed for series
production. According to HOMAG, they
offered a 50% increase in performance
at just 30% additional cost, achieved
with higher feed speeds, shorter gaps
and changeover times, and longer
availability.
Small series production and individual
production became more and more
important in the following years.
4
In 2001, HOMAG presented a new
automated generation of the powerLine
series for batch-size-one production.
In 2004, HOMAG responded to the
growing use of lightweight panels and
began offering machines and systems
not only for the production but also for
the further processing and edging of
these panels.
HOMAG was again able to celebrate a
world premiere at LIGNA 2009, through
the launch of the Ambition series of
edgebanding machines in the form of
six series from BRANDT and HOMAG.
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