Biesse and CADES Ltd will supply woodworking machinery and dust extraction equipment for Decorative Panels’ new £8.5m factory in Elland, West Yorkshire.
CADES Ltd is to install a negative pressure dust extraction system, while Biesse will supply new cutting, edgebanding and drilling lines.
Decorative Panels is relocating its two existing factories into one fully refurbished 175,000ft² manufacturing unit to allow growth and more flexibility to its customers.
The extraction systems in the old factories are traditional positive pressure-type chain filters but, with the rising cost of electricity, the new site needed to have a more energy-efficient system.
The factory will be processing panel components using more than 30 machines, including beam saws, double sided edgebanders and CNC drilling machines.
Dust extraction technology installed will be capable of 24-hour seven-day running using two large Moldow MHL-type negative pressure chain filters with a reverse air carriage cleaning system.
Six fansets per filter will be rated at 75kW and 90kW each, all inverter driven and controlled by the Moldow energy manager system.
The energy manager system receives signals from each production machine and duct automatic dampers and fires up the fans to achieve the required air volume for the machines in operation and switch fans off if not required.
All information for each shift is stored and can be accessed via the company network giving Decorative Panels exact power usage per shift, machine use and product feed rates.
