More than 70 companies from 15 countries were briefed about new technology and current trends in solid wood processing at Weinig’s Solid Wood Days.
The October 12-13 event was held at Weinig customer Ohnemus, based near Freiburg.
Ohnemus has developed from a hardwood sawmill and timber trader to be a manufacturer of sorted solid wood panels and an interesting customer base in the staircase, furniture and interior fittings market.
It has installed a variety of Weinig technology, from cutting to size through to production of the finished solid wood panel.
Solid Wood Days focused on increasing added value, looking at optimisation of cutting to size of widths and lengths, wood optimisation through the introduction of scanners, use of planers and intelligent gluing systems.
Information on Weinig’s finger-jointing systems rounded off the schedule.
Customer were able to tour Ohnemus’ factory, which features a Maxicut 800 pre-cut saw, a ProfiRip KR 450 M multiplied buzz saw, an OptiCut 304 optimising cross-cut saw, a Powermat 500 moulder and a ProfiPress T 3500 HF.
“Our concept of demonstrating Weinig’s overall expertise in a manufacturing company has worked as planned,” said Weinig chief sales officer Stephan Weber.