ITALY - The “On the Leading EDGEBanding” event organized by SCM at its production site in Thiene (Vicenza) from 7 to 9 November came to a close on a high note with a significant turnout from all over the world (Europe, China, the Far East and South America) and key large-scale reknown international furniture producers who came to see for themselves the new SCM "batch 1" and Industry 4.0 flexible industrial edgebanding systems, which held center stage during the event.

Flexibility, integration and automation: these are the cornerstones of the new “Stefani Cell” range, designed and developed to fully interpret and meet the demands for efficiency, high production and customization from today's market. The edgebander is integrated into cells and plants fitted with rollers, panel return devices, automatic loading and unloading systems, assisted by robots and fitted with IoT sensors to guarantee immediate digital services in support of an optimal functioning of the machine.

Industry visitors showed considerable interest in the high innovative level of these new solutions. They also appreciated the wider objective of this event: to offer a general overview of key furniture and design trends for which the industrial edgebanding process is increasingly more decisive, with demonstrations and detailed explanations.

"Today's edgebanding is a process which can make a genuine difference to the aesthetic value of an end product”, explains Fabio Cernoia, Business Manager for SCM Edgebanding. “This is why we focus on always giving greater added value to our clients in the furniture industry with applications which not only guarantee high productivity and flexibility for a simple, rapid machining of increasingly smaller batches, but can also ensure that a quality finishing and a great look is achieved on all kinds of panels”.

“These new SCM flexible "batch 1" edgebanding systems prove our ability to generate sustainable, quality innovation for all companies seeking advanced and flexible solutions for their production process”, comments Luigi De Vito, SCM Division Director. “We have shared the latest technological solutions for the industry with clients and partners right where they take shape, at the heart of the SCM production site in Thiene. It was recently extended to 30,000 m2 (+35%) to guarantee machining lines and areas that are increasingly "leaner" and offer "greater performance”.

On top of the new SCM solutions the inhouse fair offered a program of workshops organized in collaboration with industry technological partners. Four topics were covered: Threespine Click Furniture Technology, Eco-friendly furniture, the future of polyurethane glues and the new trends on edges, with the presentation of SCM solutions for decorative edgebanding with attractive results on the panel.

The event was preceded by a community day with SCM's international sales network covering all the strong points in the "Stefani Cell" range, to provide a punctual, capillary, state-of-the-art service alongside the high technology of these new solutions.