GERMANY – 60 years ago, Homag launched the first throughfeed edge banding machine using the hot-cold application process onto the market.

In 1962, just two years after the company was founded, it registered a patent for the KH 2/18, the first automatic edge banding machine — a series machine with veneer strip magazine, gluing unit, pressure zone and flush trimming unit.

This technology was to become the starting point for almost all further developments by Homag in this segment.

In the same year, 1962, at the Hanover trade fair, the company showed a new type of edge banding machine using the hot-cold process. In comparison to the competition, this machine allowed edges to be glued much faster and more economically.

This was a revolution. “As a result, the favorable price-performance ratio led to immense demand, meaning that from 1962, Homag concentrated entirely on the production and further development of this gluing technology,” explains Dr. Sergej Schwarz, member of the board. “The process was driven in particular by an innovative glue technology: hot-melt glue.”