The machine is so hot off the production line, that it wasn’t actually for sale. In fact, it’s still going through final modifications leading to a demo at Weinig’s October customer event.
The headline grabbing feature of the Multipower is that, besides undertaking four-side profiling and planing, it incorporates an end-profiling tenoning feature with a work table which flips smoothly out from the machine body at the push of a button.
And while this might have been the show stopper, it was far from the only new release on Weinig’s 3,000m2 stand.
The latest Powermat planer moulder, the 400, was shown in three variants up to 300mm wide. Updates were also on show in the rest of the Powermat stable, from the entry level 40 to the 600m/min 6000, all featuring Powerloc quick cutter-head release.
Also new was the Raimann Speed Rip cross-wise optimising saw, capable of cutting 600m a minute, while a Dimter S90 saw was shown in line with a WoodEye scanner to demonstrate optimising at its most automated. Latest Grecon finger-jointing technology was also on show.
“With ever higher timber prices, processors need to get more from the raw material,” said Weinig UK managing director Chris Osborne. “We’re all about increasing yield and raising efficiency.”
