The mass timber industry is experiencing a surge in popularity, driven by its eco-friendly credentials and superior structural performance. However, ensuring a flawless aesthetic and efficient production process for these large-scale wooden elements can be a challenge.
Here’s where Sarmax steps in, offering a powerful duo: Apache Flow Coaters for streamlined primer application and Cheyenne Structuring Brush Machines for creating unique, textured finishes.
Mass Timber Range
The Sarmax Advantage for Mass Timber Processing:
By integrating Sarmax Apache Flow Coaters and Cheyenne Structuring Machines into your mass timber workflow, you gain a significant competitive edge:
- Streamlined Primer Application: Reduce processing time and costs associated with primer application.
- Enhanced Aesthetics: Offer unique, textured finishes that elevate the visual appeal of your mass timber products.
- Product Differentiation: Stand out from the competition with a wider range of aesthetic options for your clientele.
- Improved Efficiency: Minimize downtime through features like easy cleaning, rapid changeovers, and efficient primer utilization.
Flow Coater for Mass Timber Processing
Impeccable Primer Application
- Effortless Efficiency: The Apache range streamlines the primer application process for mass timber components with consistent shapes and sections (like laths or matchboards up to 60cm high).
- Superior Results: The system guarantees uniform impregnation through a combination of features: a front spray zone, counter-rotating brushes, and top/side pressers for optimal workpiece control.
- Reduced Costs & Maintenance: Easy brush adjustments, rapid changeover between primers/oils, and a high-pressure cleaning gun minimize downtime and maintenance needs. The three-times ceramic coating further promotes effortless cleaning.
- Optimum Primer Utilization: A closed-loop system with dedicated tanks for collecting excess stain and storing brushes when not in use ensures efficient primer usage and a clean working environment.
Brush Air Technology
This technology was designed to ensure the perfect coating of sections of wood elements already machined as grooves, holes, tenons and bevel cuts. The beam entering the machine undergoes 3 working cycles:
- The first stage ensures complete spraying of the primer across the surfaces of the beam.
- The second stage generates primary cleaning of the primer from the piece by means of a forced ventilation circuit that supplies 3 air blades. The excess primer is literally blown away from the beam, also following the machined areas as grooves, holes, tenons and bevel cuts.
- The third stage generates the finishing. It is obtained by means of a set of 5 counter rotating brushes that, with their contact with the external surfaces of the wood, mechanically remove any excessive of primer with a super grade of finishing.
Structuring Brush for Mass Timber
Brushing Technology
- Enhanced Aesthetics: Allows you to customize and elevate the surface texture of mass timber elements, accentuating the natural wood grain for a sophisticated look.
- Versatility & Adaptability: By changing brush types, you can achieve a wide range of finishes, from polishing and cleaning to applying different products onto wooden profiles.
- Superior Control & Precision: Features a vertical sliding system for accurate brushing, adjustable roller pressers for workpiece stability, and dynamically-balanced high-speed brushes for vibration-free operation.
- Flexibility & Efficiency: The modular design with independent brushing units allows for roughing and finishing steps in a single pass. Additionally, the ability to adjust work depth and swap brush types empowers you to achieve a variety of finishes efficiently.
The demand for a competitive advantage has prompted many manufacturers to offer something unique and innovative to their customers. The process of customisation of the wood item is therefore a unique concept on the market. A valid system to customise the product is that of brushing: the operation involves modifying the surfaces and highlighting the wood grain. Essentially what is taking place is drawing out from the wood what already exists, that is the natural shape of the grain, giving a natural and very refined appearance.
The fact of combining the brushing parameters such as depth and softness and secondly the colours of the impregnation fuels the imagination to create different solutions according to personal taste.
The term “brushing” is generic and groups all the tasks performed with brush machines such as sanding, polishing, cleaning and in our case, antiquing. Technically the operation of antiquing is performed by brushes that put into rotation abrade the wood consuming it.
Embrace innovation and unlock the full potential of mass timber aesthetics and efficiency.
Contact us today to explore how these industry-leading flow coating and structuring brushing solutions can transform your mass timber production process.
