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Low-weight boards:

Aluminium composite panels: Throughfeed edge banding and processing

The complexity of products is increasing: a variety of modern materials requires innovative and flexible solutions. In this situation, the customer's requirement to apply aluminium edgings to aluminium composite panels and to process them became our incentive for technological progress. Applications of aluminium low weight boards [with two different core structures, i.e. aluminium honeycomb or aluminium cellular core] range from architecture through industry, transport, medicine technology to display systems.

A team of IMA R&D engineers, customer representatives, as well as the manufacturer of the aluminium composite board, of the edging material, of the adhesive and of the adhesive application system accompanied the entire process until it was ready to run in a production environment. The IMA research & development converted the various test series into a consequent machine concept formed out of standard components and special units.