Weinig’s “technology offensive”

Weinig Group will exhibit a range of innovations at Ligna in Hall 12. The core themes will be resource efficiency, flexibility and networked production, which − we anticipate − will be shared by many other exhibitors. What are we going to find? Summing up, pioneering developments in the profiling as well as in window manufacturing, reaffirming Weinig’s leadership in solid wood, with solutions including high-productivity and high-automation production lines.

Plus the latest Holz-Her innovations for the panel industry, especially for edge banding (a technology that is already causing buzz and that was originally developed by Holz-Her), CNC processing centers and panel cutting.

 

But let’s go back to Weinig, solid wood and the new generation of “Powermat”, that will be revealed to the global audience for the first time. So, a big launch for “Powermat 700” and “Powermat 1200”, featuring the innovative “Comfort Set” operating concept, which enables largely tool-free setting and significantly reduces set-up times. Further benefits of the four-sider include high operating safety and very good accessibility. It also impresses with its high energy efficiency, which is primarily attributable to the optimization of the extraction system. Particular progress has been made with the optimized flying of chips, while the “Smart-Touch” function makes the new Powermat a trendsetter in ease-of-use. Wireless communication, for example, is possible between controls or tablet and the machine.

 

The new Weinig “System Plus” connects all processes involved in preparing the moulder for production. The “Moulder Master” software, the new “Rondamat” 1000 tool grinder, tool measurement with “OptiControl Digital” and “PowerCom” machine controls allow not only to create − from design to the production of the tool ready to work − straight and profile knives, but also to provide in real time all information required by the machine to position each aggregate for a specific operation with a specific tool. Information is shared, “networked” to cut risk of errors and downtime.

 

In the “Rondamat 985”, Weinig will be exhibiting a new grinder in Hanover for tool production and maintenance, featuring integrated radius measurement of the knives.

 

In wooden windows, the corners and connections of the horizontal and vertical transoms, mullions and glazing bars have always been the most sensitive areas. Mechanical or glued, accurate connections are required to ensure the solidity of the finished element. The Weinig “Conturex” window machining centers are precisely tailored to round tenon production, using new processing units and tool clamping systems to achieves optimal precision and productivity.

 

The “Weinig Concept” division, the engineering arm of the company, will be presenting at Ligna a current project for a patent-pending system for the simultaneous gluing of several wooden parts of medium length, a system conceived to speed up operations and use material and time more efficiently.

Such “block gluing with butt joints” process is safe and flexible, as it can be applied to a wide range of products, from windows to top layers, from uprights to door elements, up to X-Lam. The centerpiece of the system, the “ProfiPress C”, presses the glued butt-jointed strand without height offset and with perfect alignment in length.

 

The new Weinig “ProfiPress L II” will also be presented in Hanover, primarily aimed at workshop businesses for one-man panel production. Both the positioning of the glued lamellae and transfer of the lamellae from the gluing station to the infeed belt or infeed chain are automatic. The pressure cylinders are also selected automatically, making the “ProfiPress L II” suitable for high-capacity layer formation.

 

The extensive “Dimter Line” range of cross-cut saws from Weinig has been expanded with model “OptiCut 200 Elite”, which will be presented as an inline scanner solution with “EasyScan”. A new design, new and larger touchscreen user interface and performance-optimized machine concept will all enhance the attractiveness of the cross-cut saw, while for the “OptiCut S 50 Window”, the alignment aid for packages in the infeed table is also now available. The popular option of the “OptiCut S 90” provides for increased length accuracy and process reliability. The options for workpiece recognition have also been extended for models from the “OptiCut S 50”, “OptiCut S 90” and “OptiCut 450 FJ+” series, from simple recognition of workpieces to application of high-definition graphic logos even at high feed speeds in the outfeed.

Also at Ligna, a system solution will be exhibited for the first time that builds upon the “OptiCut S 90 Speed”. This cross-cutting system for pure defect removal achieves performance that can otherwise only be achieved by throughfeed saws while also impressing with its high length accuracy.