FOUR PROFILES, ONE MACHINE
IMA Schelling develops a never-before-implemented solution for a kitchen manufacturer.
FROM J TO OBLIQUE
How can differently profiled and straight edges be produced in an automated plant? This has been a problem faced by many kitchen manufacturers. The market trend towards handleless kitchen fronts has made it necessary to produce handle profiles. Previous methods – fitted aluminium profile rails or MDF boards with milled profiles and subsequent painting – are both expensive and complex. IMA Schelling has now designed a 40-metre-long machine tool based on the Combima format and edge processing machine for a kitchen manufacturer.
„The actual edge banding area put the creativity of our development engineers to the test,“ explains Dennis Reddig, Product Manager Edge Processing. In addition to straight edges, four profiles needed to be edge-banded and automatically changed: J-profiles, C-profiles, angled and folded profiles. During development, it quickly became clear that the standard edge material used for softforming was too thin. But stronger edge thicknesses posed a challenge when it came to joining the edges and applying adhesive. In order to overcome these challenges, IMA Schelling experts combined the preparation of the edge material with a heat gun and the simultaneous application of adhesive to the workpiece and edge to create a never-before-implemented solution.
These four profiles can be processed with the new IMA Schelling solution:
J - PROFILE
C - PROFILE
ANGLED PROFILE
FOLDING PROFILE
