Press Release, January 2009 (Contact: Frank Wiehl, Marketing ...

Press Release, January 2009
(Contact: Frank Wiehl, Marketing, Phone: +49 7371/500-142, E-mail:
marketing@paul.eu)
Heavy-Duty PAUL 18GE CNC Cross-Cut System successful in operation
The PAUL 18GE cross-cut system at Anton Kessel GmbH (ANKE) has proved very
successful in pre-edging waney-edged hardwood, i.e. beech boards. Approx. 50 cbm
of beechwood pass through the cross-cut system per shift.
The waney-edged boards are fed via a tilt hoist destacker with automatic turn-over
device and a powered roller conveyor into the cross-cut system. The length of the
board lying on the transfer slide of the destacker is measured whilst the previously
optimized board is fed by the roller table into the cross-cut system (overlapping
working method). Defects in the timber, such as knots and cracks are marked without
touching the timber. The easy-moving measuring carriage is equipped with function
keys and a laser indicating its current position on the board. The operator moves the
laser to the defects to be cut out and presses a key to transmit their locations to the
optimization software in the MAXI 5 Premium control. Based on the lengths
programmed in cutting lists, it selects the optimum combination of lengths giving
minimum waste. The cut pieces feed on a belt conveyor to powered sorting tables.
Trim cuts and other waste pieces are automatically removed and disposed of. The
good pieces are sorted by length at preset sorting stations.
Thereafter the cut pieces are ripped on a multirip saw. The strips produced are kilndried
from 15% to a residual moisture content of approx. 7%.
After drying the workpieces are used in the production of work benches, joiner’s
benches and kitchen panels.
ANKE is a leading manufacturer of work benches, joiner’s benches and all kinds of
works equipment and employs a total workforce of approx. 110.

Fig. 1: Sawn timber packs on a large air-drying yard
Fig. 2: Feeding and simultaneous measurement of waney edged boards on an automatic tilt hoist destacker

Fig. 3: Operator, Roland Herter, grades the board without touching it
Fig. 4: Entering the cutting lists on the MAXI 5 Premium CNC control via touch screen

Fig. 5: Outfeed of cut pieces and length sorting system
Fig. 6: The workpieces are manually fed into a multirip saw

Fig. 7: The ripped strips are used for the production of work benches
Fig. 8: The end product – a solid ANKE work bench