ITALY – On Friday, October 14th, the XIA-Xylexpo Innovation Awards were assigned for the fourth edition.

The awards have become a traditional event of the biennial international exhibition of wood and furniture industry technology.

The award included five categories – solid wood, panels, finishing, digitalization and sustainability.

The award for the “Solid wood processing” category went to Paoletti Energy  for the gluing system “Iglueing PUR Hyper”.

For the “Panel processing” category, the jury decided to reward two solutions “…which solve the same problem with different approaches but equivalent results”. The winners were “Hand Guard” by Altendorf and “Blade Off” by SCM.

In the “Finishing” category, “…the jury identified the automatic spraying machine “Excellent Cm80” by Makor, the winner in this category.

The “Digitalization” award went to the “Digital Factory” system of SCM.

The award for the “Sustainability” category went to the wood dust extractor by Spänex.