Gloria Valtorta, Superfici’s Business Unit Manager adds: “We deal with finishing, painting, tactile aspects, aesthetics and sensitivity. This is our mission within the Group. An important challenge because we are talking about appearance, that first impression when you find yourself in front of a unit, a piece of furniture, a door or a window. We are specialists strongly integrated into the Group’s work, world leader in technologies for secondary wood processing. The technical and technological part of the finishing and painting is in our DNA and everything is devised, designed, planned and manufactured: whether we are talking about a line to integrate into a new plant produced by the Group’s Engineering or a machine that a long-standing or new client asked us for. At Superfici, we cover everything.”

The Integrated Project

Sanding: DMC system sanding machines are distinguished for being flexible abrasive machining centers used to create exclusive 3D surface finishing by pairing carving and brushes units. These innovative carving units allow SCM to obtain refined design lines and finishing effects that evoke manual woodworking processes, providing an authentic and valuable characteristic to wooden furniture. With this technology, SCM can also create a wide and varying range of different surfaces, changing from one 3D surface design to another one in a very short time and an amazing productivity.

The carving unit is able to rapidly reproduce, by brushless servomotors, various carving effects that differ in depth, direction and shape of the pattern grooves. This multifunctional solution also creates the look of a truly carved surface on solid wood, veneer and MDF, and the technology can be applied to many application sectors such as parquet flooring, home furniture and internal wall manufacturing. Moreover, these modular machines can use different units inside whose action, from longitudinal or transversal sanding to super finisher units, or units like the Planetario, which allows many different sanding processes due to three different movement types – for example by using orbital brush discs it can perfectly sand solid wood door frames, windows frames or kitchen cabinets.

Finishing: Superfici mini Plug&Spray spraying machine offers all the advantages of an automatic spraying in a small case of efficiency and simplicity. Adding Superfici mini – SCM’s entry level automatic spraying machine – enables users to either paint panels and doors, or coat them with glue. According to SCM, the machine a a plug and spray solution for anyone who wants to make the move up from hand spraying to automatic spraying and it has been priced to suit smaller users. Superfici mini can handle different working programs and be fully connected, making things easier for the user to handle orders and keep quality under control. All the parameters can be controlled and that means high quality and consistency, as well being able to control cost. More and more customers want this kind of integration.

Another Superfici technological solution that can be perfectly integrated with SCM models for sanding and pressing is the Superfici Bravorobot. This machine is more suitable for higher production. It offers increased accuracy when glue spraying, and it has the technology on board to cope with more complicated shapes. Typically, for spraying glue, you would want one gun dedicated to edge spraying that has specific nozzles; a fan size that’s effective on vertical sides; and two guns on a robotic arm for the surface with different nozzles to apply very little glue. With the Bravorobot, the gun nozzle angle can be controlled for the edge but for the surface, the guns are fixed on the arm. As such, this solution can select where to apply more glue and where to apply less glue very easily so more can be applied on the edges and a mist can be applied to the surface. Superfici offers different nozzles to spray inside groove.

Pressing: to complete the integrated project developed by SCM, there is also the new range of Sergiani 3d form pressing solutions for laminating curved panels and those with three-dimensional effects. This model can offer a vast range of stand- alone or integrated solutions in automatic lines to meet the varying production needs. The pressing cycle is electronically adjustable and programmable at each stage to ensure the best panel finish according to the material being processed, guaranteeing top quality surfaces and gluing, plus a highly versatile application. The Sergiani 3d form is the last piece in the SCM labelled finishing process puzzle. This way the client has an opportunity to have a unique partner capable of providing ad hoc solutions for all the production needs for surface treatment – sanding, glue application and pressing.