Modern, efficient, dynamic and with clearly defined objectives, EFFISA is specialized in the manufacture of machines and equipment dedicated to handling and surface treatment for profiles and panels. With professionals with more than 25 years of experience in the different segments in which they operate, EFFISA continues to work hard, consolidating its products. We at EFFISA are driven by technology, we are constantly challenged in the search for innovative solutions and inspired to develop equipment internationally recognized for its quality and ability to serve each customer with excellence. Come to learn more about EFFISA!
Co-Matic Machinery Co., Ltd.
CO-MATIC is the world’s largest dedicated power feeder provider in the woodworking industry, with its headquarters and manufacturing facility located in Taichung City, Taiwan. CO-MATIC has earned its reputation by offering a wide range of power feeders and portable edgebanders known for their exceptional quality and excellent customer service. Its products are now distributed in over 70 countries worldwide.
Choice Machinery / Ritter / Evans Midwest
Choice Machinery Group manufactures American-made machinery brands and provides custom machinery and automation solutions for a variety of industries. Headquartered in Holland, MI USA, Choice Machinery is proud to manufacture the well-known woodworking machinery brands of Ritter Machinery, Evans Machinery and Midwest Automation, the last two have merged under the new title of Evans Midwest. The Choice team delivers high-quality, dependable, cutting-edge machinery and has a long history of serving the woodworking industry. Please contact us today and allow us to help you with your future machinery needs! Choice Machinery Group is a veteran owned company. Since 1956 and 1959 respectively, Evans Machinery and Midwest Automation have been trusted names in the fields of countertop production and panel laminating equipment to customers worldwide. Our years of experience serving the laminating community have given us a unique understanding of the needs and challenges that our customers face. This allows us to respond with heavy duty, automated solutions at prices that any shop can afford. Our experienced team has worked tirelessly to build on the foundation that has been developed over the past 40 years with the Evans and Midwest brands. Evans Midwest is proud to say that all our machines are engineered and built in the United States for distribution worldwide. For more information on our machines, capabilities, and prices please contact your local distributors. A complete list of our distributors can be found online at www.evansmidwest.com/distributors. For over 40 years, Ritter Machinery has been a premier manufacturer of American-made industrial woodworking machinery. Ritter’s signature reputation is for heavy-duty, ruggedly built and user-friendly machinery, backed by excellent customer service. Ritter boasts a robust line of clamping tables, assembly tables, drilling and boring machines and sanding equipment. Today, Ritter is a recognized name in the worldwide woodworking industry and is one of America’s leading woodworking machinery manufacturers. Ritter has a long history of serving the woodworking industry and is committed to excellence. For more information on our machines, capabilities, and prices please contact your local distributors. A complete list of our distributors can be found online at www.rittermachinerycompany.com/ritter-distributors/.
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.
Barbaric North America
Barbaric – “Ideas that Move” Automation Solutions Designed for your specific requirements Automatic parts and panel handling made easy. At Barbaric, our goal is to provide optimal solutions for every handling application – not only in the field of manual vacuum lifting technology. In addition to our vacuum lifters, we also develop automatic systems in the field of panel and part handling for commercial or industrial production plants. Manual vacuum lifters from Barbaric enable efficient handling of heavy panels and save valuable time in production. While conventional manual manipulation requires 2-3 employees, a vacuum lifting systems allows a single employee to move oversized panels with maximum ergonomics and without physical exertion. Our automatic handling solutions take over fully automated process steps in panel and part production. Panel storage, feeding systems, buffer storage and return systems are just a few examples of modern systems in the field of material handling. Each plant in this area is built individually according to the requirements of our customers, while existing components and proven concepts are used. | Barbaric is an Austrian company specialized in handling solutions for wood and glass manufacturing. With our innovative approach to material handling, we can offer a suitable solution for any material handling application – from compact manual vacuum lifters up to highly automated industrial handling solutions.
AutomaTech Robotik
Automatech Robotik has been helping wood manufacturers achieve sustainable and long-term growth since 1997. Having already helped more than 100 factories across North America, our team of 50 passionate employees continues to work with dedication to achieve your vision: get the automation you want, the way you imagine it. Our company, led by a team of renowned engineers, is located in Quebec, Canada – 347 million acres of forest, biggest AI research ecosystem on the planet and world renowned engineering. Our values are professionalism, respect, cooperation and customer satisfaction. Working with passionate wood manufacturers is our calling and it’s why we’re early in the office and stay until the job is done. Together, we can bring your company to new heights and, if you so choose, transform it in the worlds’ most effective and agile wood-transformation factory.