Austrian industrial machinery manufacturer Fill Machine Engineering has won its first contract in the Finnish timber market with the delivery of a Speedfiller plywood spot repair system to Metsä Wood (formerly Finnforest).
The Speedfiller allows plywood surfaces to be touched up automatically with consistent quality, the company said. Because of space restrictions at the Metsä factory in Suolahti, central Finland, the machine was adapted to incorporate combined heads that perform milling and repair operations in a single operation.
“Alongside cost advantages, above all the automated production process provides a distinct improvement in working conditions,” said a Fill spokesman.
The machine repairs parquet, multi-layer boards or plywood. After automatic loading, a scanner detects possible faults. Larger defects can be milled out and filled with a two-component polyurethane while smaller defects are touched up with single-component filler material.
Fill said the Speedfiller can run up to 5,000 boards per shift correcting a maximum of 50,000 defects.
Joint CEO Andreas Fill said: “This is our first order for Metsä Wood and our first ever wood processing machine order in Finland. We have thereby succeeded in gaining a foothold in the highly interesting Scandinavian market for plywood.”
