GERMANY - Ligna 2019 was a great success for SCM. The Smart&Human Factory, which took center stage at SCM's stand, was a key attraction at this top quality international event, and its more than 90 thousand visitors, from more than one hundred countries.

Under the motto, "You will never work alone", that proves the Group's strength as a partner always ready to accompany and support its clients with the most advanced technologies, SCM's digital factory has shown how human work can be integrated with that of industrial, collaborative robots in state of the art cells that are open and safe, to relieve operators of low added value jobs and allow them to focus on supervising the production process.

SCM's exhibition vast exhibiting space was also rendered unique by the presence of a magnificent 12 meter table in ancient kauri wood, from an outstanding manufacturer like Riva1920, designed by Renzo and Matteo Piano and the cornerstone of the stand. A symbolic choice that aimed to render the exhibiting area a place for meeting and dealing. And indeed, business deals and contacts were up compared to previous editions.

Considerable interest was shown in all the new models designed and developed by the Group for each of the wood working stages: those integrated into the human friendly digital factory, like flexstore hp, the high performance automatic warehouse for shaped panels, integrated with the new morbidelli x400 nesting center and the "stand alone" ones. The dmc system sanding technology integrated with the Superfici spray painting systems and the new robotic glue applications as well as the new sergiani 3d form press attracted a lot of attention at the surface treatment island. The new CNC hypsos and balestrini power machining centers for solid wood technologies were well received as was the oikos x for carpentry work, thanks to its exclusive 6-axes machining heads. There were also plenty of new entries for joinery machinery starting with the new class px 350i mobile carriage circular saw.