Beam production plant

For more than 40 years we have been planning and supplying customised installations to produce glued laminated timber (glulam) worldwide. In addition to the customary material handling system and conveyor technology, our product portfolio includes a wide range of hydraulic glulam presses. Both the glulam presses and the conveyor technology for boards, lamellas and glulam beams are almost infinitely scalable. In the field of engineered timber construction, we thus implement installations for considerably large glulam beams of up to a length of 50 m, but also highly efficient and highly automated production lines for straight standard glulam beams of up to a length of 18 m. Depending on the requirements, we plan our line technology customised in existing buildings as well as in greenfield projects. Upon request, we can integrate a wide range of third-party machines into the overall concept. Especially in flexible production lines for order-based production - batch size 1 - our higher-level production control technology FlowMate is used. It provides the PLC controllers just-in-time with the necessary production data and ensures an efficient and continuous production. The entire line, including all third-party machines, is controlled. Glulam production in Russia This glulam production was designed as an addition to an already existing production line. The customer was looking for a possibility to press both 18 m long glulam and 600 mm wide LVL strips into solid supports of 600 mm x 300 mm. As these were only small series, the personnel and space requirements as well as the investment sum should be kept to a minimum.