Furniture Industry

Versatile machines for complex tasks

The furniture industry displays featured live demonstrations of state-of-the-art plant and equipment for industrial furniture production. Recent developments in CNC machines and processing centers in particular have lead to previously unheard-of levels of diversity. Increasingly complex industrial furniture manufacturing requirements and the steady rise of short and micro-run production is driving demand for machine systems that offer maximum flexibility and fast retooling. Trade visitors looking for optimized CNC processing centers offering the greatly extended range of applications required to meet these challenges were almost spoiled for choice at LIGNA.

Big-name manufacturers mounted displays of high-performance cells designed for the start-to-finish processing of highly diverse component variants.

These attracted enormous visitor interest, as did the showcases of solutions for processing (thick-format) lightweight composite panels. Lightweight construction was, in fact, one of the big themes at LIGNA. Manufacturers of thick furniture panels can reduce their raw material consumption by 75 to 80 percent by substituting lightweight composite panels for solid-core engineered wood panels of the same thickness.