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Smartedge: automated edge coating and sanding for high-quality panels

 

Automated edge-coating and sanding with Smartedge

To ensure high-performance edge-sanding and coating processes while maintaining top-quality standards, Cefla Finishing has developed Smartedge. This integrated system includes Edge&Go, a patented technology that automates key panel finishing functions. This allows for seamless processing of different edge types without switching between automatic and manual operations, eliminating production downtime.

When performed manually, edge sanding and coating are time-consuming and often reduce overall finishing line efficiency. In contrast, automation transforms production and quality. Thanks to its patented components, Smartedge increases productivity while ensuring consistent quality.

For instance, Smartedge performs edge sanding and vertical rounding of panel corners with a radius of 1 to 4 mm. This process, typically carried out manually, is now fully automated, significantly improving uniformity and accelerating edge finishing.

 

What is Smartedge and how it works?

What exactly is Smartedge, and how does it function? This machine is the ideal solution for those looking for a complete edge-finishing system, integrating coating, filling and sanding in a modular configuration that can be tailored to different quality and productivity needs.

Coating for straight or rounded edges (radius: up to 3 mm) can be performed using a traditional vertical roller, a soft vertical roller or using vacuum injection technology, a patented Cefla solution that can be used for all edge types, ensuring precise, uniform passes regardless of edge shape.

Drying is performed with an integrated oven implementing UV lamps for 100% acrylic lacquers or alternatively IR lamps for water-based or solvent-based coatings.

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The advantages of automation with Smartedge

In general, automating edge coating and sanding significantly improves productivity compared to manual techniques. However, using an intelligent, integrated solution like Smartedge brings additional quality advantages.

Smartedge, with its range of sanding tools, is designed to process even J-Pull edges and eliminate the seam between the rounded edge and the flat panel surface - on one or both sides if needed. The result? A more uniform finish, enhancing both quality and aesthetics.

Manual sanding often creates production bottlenecks, slowing down the entire process. By switching to an automated system like Smartedge, you achieve a more efficient and productive finishing line, lower operational costs and you eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing operators to focus on high-value activities.

Practical applications of Smartedge

The real strength of Smartedge lies in its adaptability. Its modular design allows for quick and easy configuration to process a variety of panels, including:

  • Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) – used for furniture, wardrobes, wall panels, and insulation coverings
  • Solid wood – for furniture and high-end decorative panels
  • Veneered panels – requiring precise sanding and finishing

Each material and its intended application have specific requirements, and Smartedge is designed to meet them all, leveraging Cefla Finishing’s extensive industry expertise.

Smartedge isn’t just a stand-alone solution; it is designed for seamless integration with other Cefla Finishing technologies to enhance its performance even further. Paired with Smartvacuum, for example, Smartedge can execute high-quality coating and sanding on both flat and curved surfaces, thanks to vacuum application technology. When working together, Smartedge and Smartvacuum deliver:
  • consistent application quality
  • reduced lead times
  • optimised factory floor space
  • minimised panel handling
  • lower costs per linear metregreater sustainability, thanks to optimised material use and waste recovery

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Profiles wrapping RoboWrap

Our experience led us to appreciate that manufacturers of doors, kitchens, furniture and wooden profiles all need a highly flexible system capable of responding quickly to customers' just-in-time demands while maintaining high-quality standards that can be repeated over time. Our latest wrapping technologies shorten machine set-up times when the profile shape changes. Consequently, downtime is reduced and manufacturers can easily respond to customer needs and stay competitive.

We have a large range of profile wrapping machines containing innovative and efficient systems that focus on your productivity, especially when you are faced with frequent requests for customization, leading to small production batches and frequent changeovers.

Relax with RoboWrap!

With its fully robotized mechanisms, allowing profile changeovers to be completed in just 5 minutes, combines limited set-up and maintenance times with high output rates. Now you can relax as we boost your profits through enhanced productivity. Intelligent software analyses the operator's procedure before each set-up process. This enables the machine to obtain the desired wrapping result even with worn or age-deformed pressure rollers.

RoboWrap is the first fully automatic wrapping machine which takes into account the altered shape of the pressure rollers when reproducing a set-up. No matter how much a profile's geometry differs from another, the set-up time (which can take up to 4-6 hours with conventional wrapping machines) has been reduced to a constant 5 minutes. Each RoboWrap is built with an individual configuration depending on the requirements of the specific project. This makes each RoboWrap unique.

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You could be relaxing for years to come, so be sure to chill out with RoboWrap.

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Imagine finding exactly the pattern you want for a series of panels or flooring. Until now, there were two good ways of reproducing a pattern such as that of natural stones, marble or wood grain.

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Once you had identified the pattern you wished to print, either analogically or digitally, you could get a professional photographer to capture the image or employ a large-sized scanner to generate a file which served as the blueprint for your creation.
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