A Scottish door manufacturer has upgraded its sanding technology to help with detailed finishing work required in the manufacture of fire doors.
Glasgow-based Tower Doors invested about £40,000 in a Bütfering wide-belt Optimat SC0213 Sandy machine for its fire door and doorset manufacturing work, which makes up 80% of the company’s business.
Tower Doors director Richard Glassford said accuracy and finishing were crucial so doors were perfectly calibrated before veneers were laminated and finished without blemish.
The Bütfering supplied by Airdrie-based Deral Ltd, Homag UK’s sales partner for Scotland, is a tin head machine with a 240mm profiled steel calibrating roller and a second “combi” style unit integrating both a rubber contact roller and segmented pad. Both rollers are positioned automatically.
The machine is of a constant pass line design to enable the use of fixed height infeed and outfeed tables for processing heavier or longer doors. Other features include 125 programmes available from a touch-screen, an abrasive belt length of 2150mm, the patented Bütfering CPS segmented pad and monitoring of sanding pressure to within 0.02bar.
Tower Doors claims to be one of the few companies in Scotland to supply fire doors with glazed apertures.
