SPAIN – Barberán, the Spanish manufacturer of industrial surface finishing machinery, supplied the equipment for testing new products and designs at Ikea’s technology center in Älmhult, Sweden. 

The Speed Press is a post forming unit able to work with all kind of foils, even pre-glued foils, and it is equipped with a complete range of tools so it can produce many different shapes of post forming panel edges. Designed for panels of up to 1000 mm width and 40 m/min, the new lab Speed Press was installed at the Ikea facilities at the end of March and is ready for testing the new Ikea furniture developments since April.

BARBERAN, S.A., founded in 1929, is a family owned company in the that manufactures industrial surface finishing machinery for the furniture, construction, decoration and packaging industries. Barberán is structured in four divisions: lamination, wrapping, lacquering and digital printing and exports 85% of its production.