Pine Precision Machinery drives the upgrading of woodworking industry Launched “Multi Tasking Mill Turning Center “to provide multiple design options for chair legs and backs

• 2025-01-17

       Inheriting the experience of woodworking machinery production for half a century, Pine Precision Machinery adhering to the belief of “doing the right thing, doing everything right”, adhering to the concept of high quality and high performance, making woodworking knives and planers to meet the needs of the high-end market and providing customers with high Stable, high-speed, reliable production equipment.        The company’s innovative development "Multi Tasking Mill Turning Center" promotes the CNC industry. This machine is equipped with 12-tools magazine, and is equipped with a pc-CNC controller and a server loading system. It is suitable for curves and complex and changeable customized furniture, especially for the chair back, chair legs and bed legs etc. It provides multiple design and customization options for furniture. It also produces exquisite and high value-added furniture, and automation can solve the labor shortage. Pine Precision Machinery aims to provide "precision computerized production" and "provide automatic intelligent high-speed machine". Jumping away from traditional carpenter thinking, the company will carefully develop and design more intelligent machines that meet the needs of the industry and drive the woodworking industry upgrade.

"SMAU Innovation" Award to Scm Group

• 2024-11-05

The award is for the new “Solutions Library” project, a digital library of technical solutions which makes the most of artificial intelligence to process and share the group’s wealth of knowledge, acquired over 70 years of experience in the technologies sector for machining wood and other materials.        Scm Group is one of the “Made in Italy” entrepreneurial excellences to be honoured at the most recent edition of Smau, the annual Innovation trade fair held in Milan from 29 to 30 October.        The Italian group is a global leader in technologies for machining a wide range of materials and industrial components and won the 2024 Innovation Prize for its “Solutions Library” project.        Digital transformation and open innovation, key topics at the 2024 edition of Smau, are also the concepts at the root of this new service devised and developed by Scm Group: a library of technical solutions for co-workers and customers, which makes the most of artificial intelligence to process the company’s technical know-how, effectively classify it and make it available, as and when it is required, to those it may be of use to.        The purpose of the project, which is part of the group’s digital transformation programme, is to activate the process and enhance the wealth of know-how acquired over seventy years of experience in the technologies sector for machining wood and other materials.        Alessandra Benedetti, Digital Transformation&Business Remodelling Director picked up the prize on behalf of the group and she explained the purposes and advantages of the new, winning project during the Live Show on “Innovative tools to support and enhance employees’ work”.        “Solutions Library is part of a wider strategic plan - she explained - which involves offering customers, not only the product but also software and services beneficial for building a continuous and shared relationship”.        An example of innovation which highlights how digital technologies can transform business models by also creating sustainable worth.        Smau was an opportunity for networking with the key players and stakeholders of the Made in Italy innovation eco-system. Together with Sara Iaconianni, Scouting&Idea Generation Manager, and Lorenzo Monti, Digital Projects Manager, Scm Group took part in the “Startup Safari” initiative for examining open innovation ideas and potential opportunities. The SMAU Live Show was broadcast in streaming and can be seen on the link: https://www.smau.it/milano/programma/strumenti-innovativi-per-supportare-e-potenziare-il-lavoro-dei-dipendenti Source : SCM Group

SHARP EDGES: AN UNDERESTIMATED DANGER…

• 2024-10-25

       Functionality and aesthetics. These are the main requirements for a piece of furniture. Unfortunately, however, we are not always talking about furniture that has been made in a workmanlike manner or, at least, made with the utmost attention to the danger, however small, that even the smallest of its components can create.        One can - for example - make the mistake of underestimating the presence of a hole in which a finger could get stuck, rather than the presence of heavy elements or moving parts that could even cause the crushing of a person or part of his body.        Even edges, if not been properly rounded, can cause scratches, abrasions and even deep cuts. The weaker persons, children and the elderly, are of course the most likely victims; but adults can also experience similar unpleasantness.        Safety has always been one of the main focuses of standardization and the subject of “sharp edges” is dealt with in all European standard documents concerning furniture, whether for domestic use (EN 14749) or for non- domestic use, or for office storage and community places (EN 16121). These standards require that all “accessible” parts of a piece of furniture, with which a person may come into contact, must have rounded edges and vertices.        It is therefore necessary to verify that this potentially dangerous situation does not exist, but the standard does not indicate how to “measure” it, in order to avoid assessments that are little more than subjective.        On this front, Catas has always deployed the experience of its technicians who, in addition to participating in the tables where these standards are defined, compare themselves daily with other institutes in Europe and around the world, so that they can objectively aligned their assessments.        In recent years, however, Catas has decided to conduct a study to define an objective system for assessing and measuring the risk of injures that a “sharp edge” can create, moving on two levels: people's perception of the danger and the validation of a laboratory instrument that can objectively measure whether an edge is sharp and how much.        The tests carried out firstly established that most people consider edges and vertices of panels with a radius of curvature of less than 0.6 millimeters to be “sharp”.        It should be noted that in industrial edgebanding processes, “edge scrapers” are generally not activated in the presence of edges up to 0.5 or 0.6 millimeters thick.                The second part of the project involved the laboratory implementation of an instrument that emulates a person's finger, an “artificial finger” equipped with a spring system that allows to apply a known force to an evaluation pad that simulates human skin. Well, by sliding this “roll” over the edge of a piece of furniture, exactly as if it were the finger of a hand, it is possible to detect whether the furniture is more or less dangerous. In a word, whether or not it cuts our “false finger”.        The comparison between the two phases of this research made it possible to establish a precise correlation between the values collected, demonstrating how the instrument developed by Catas gives a “measure” of the actual dangerousness of an edge, providing laboratory technicians with a way of assessing the dangerousness of an edge or a vertex of furniture by applying a reliable, objective, repeatable and reproducible criterion.   Catas is a joint-stock company whose shareholders are the Chamber of Commerce Pordenone-Udine, FederlegnoArredo Eventi, Banca di Cividale, Confindustria Udine, Aial-Associazione italiana artigiani del legno, Cna-Confederazione nazionale dell'artigianato di Como, Associazione Piccole e Medie Industrie del Friuli Venezia Giulia-Confapi FVG and Confartigianato Udine. The “headquarters” in San Giovanni al Natisone (Udine) has been joined over the years by Catas Brianza in Lissone (Monza Brianza) and the Catas Point in Pesaro. Source: CATAS    

Reputable manufacturers and high warranty periods are the only way to choose flooring. Muca’s SPC flooring is recycled to environmental protection.

• 2024-10-22