Company Category: Defecting Systems (Scanners)

Eagle Machinery & Supply Inc

Eagle Machinery & Supply, Inc. is a world class custom machinery and automation supplier specializing in wood processing systems, optimization solutions for scanning, ripping and crosscutting, planing and sanding, finger jointing, robotic work cells, bulk material handling and hydraulic fluid power units. Eagle proudly designs and manufactures industrial processing system solutions in the USA. Eagle is also the sales distribution systems integrator for sales, training, installation, technical support, parts and service of MiCROTEC/WoodEye Scanning and OSI Machinerie Systems throughout North America.

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Biele S.A.U.

Biele is a European company providing state-of-the art turnkey projects for several domains related to the Woodworking Industry including their own manufactured hydraulic presses. Biele has consolidated its presence in North America, installing manufacturing lines for leading companies in various sectors and increasing the work team and capacity of its subsidiary Biele USA in Atlanta (Georgia), opened in 2.015. Biele is organized for developing, for manufacturing, for installing and for commissioning at the customer’s site production lines with a high level of technical complexity, but always from a customized and innovative perspective. For Panel manufacturers, Biele will show in IWF the last innovations related to the pressing operations for plywood, HPL and EIR technology. In Plywood, Biele’s main expertise starts after the drying operation up to the final packaging of the line, including lay-up lines, pre-press and multiopening presses, trimming and packaging. Also before the dryer, Dewatering Presses have been proved as a way of big saves in energy consumption as the drying time is minimized. For Furniture manufacturers, Biele will show last generation lines focused in the High Speed Feeding and Stacking systems (up to 30 cycles/min), Fully automatic Outsorting and Insorting Systems, and Fully Automated Packing Lines organized in a modular way in order to fit with the customer’s requirements as they can be installed in different stages. Regarding Door industry, Biele manufactures Turnkey Complete Lines, both for Residential doors and Architectural Doors. Biele is flexible to customer’s needs, in a way that the projects can be focused to both high production rates with big batch sizes and smaller production rates where every door can be different from the next one (batch size 1). In the last years Biele has become an expert in Complete Turnkey Press Lines for manufacturing Lightboard Panels using different type of glues for the bonding operation, as i.e.: PVAC and PUR. Besides, Biele by means of its Building Division, has been developing and producing turnkey lines for companies processing materials like gypsum, fiber cement, mineral fiber and fiber glass, starting from the motherboard, up to the final stacking, boxing and palletizing, with high output and flexible performance, according to customers’ needs. Also, using 4.0 Industry concepts Biele provides to the customer a higher control of the processes by means of a bigger volume of processed information. These technologies can also be adapted to each customer’s expectations and requirements.

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ARGOS SOLUTIONS

Argos Solutions core business is engineering, design and manufacture of Surface Grading Systems and Panel Repair Systems for the wood panel and building industry worldwide. Argos invests significant research and development efforts to maintain and expand our technology leadership. Our high-technology systems and solutions have been preferred by many of the leading global manufacturers of wood panels (Plywood, particleboard, MDF, OSB, Engineered wood floor, TLF), furniture and and gypsum wallboard. ARGOS SOLUTIONS offers primarly the following products: ARGOS GRADING SYSTEM Argos Grading System (AGS) is a powerful and effective system for automating the inspection of all types of surface defects. The system is designed to handle panel sizes from small furniture components to full-size panels. ARGOS is the prefered supplier of automatic grading systems for Plywood, Particleboard, MDF, OSB, Furniture components, Laminated panels, painted panels, and Gypsum board. ARGOS PANEL REPAIR SYSTEM The Panel Repair System from Argos is a fast and accurate repair system for plywood and other wood panels. The system can easily be configured to perform many different repair tasks like routing, face-putty, hot-melt putty and 2-component filler.

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AikenControls

AikenControls

AikenControls is a supplier of high performance industrial controls, vision systems, optimization, and automation solutions as well as a certified UL 508A control panel builder. Based in North Carolina, AikenControls brings over 30 years of automation and optimization experience to their clients including a deep understanding of heavy manufacturing with a focus in the wood and wood products industries. In addition to traditional PLC based controls, AikenControls provides complete software development for manufacturing. From simple automation to complex process controls, AikenControls can assist you in your next project design and implementation.

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