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With HEMA, a In close coperation with our We have made it our task to Swabian family customers our specialist teams develop and then build indivi- business, you develop customized solutions dual solutions for innovative have a competent and expe- for flexible production. products together with our rienced partner by your side. customers. We listen carefully and cont- Throughout the 85 years that ribute our considerable know- “As Swabians we our company has been in exis- ledge from a wide variety of know all about tence we have learned to carry sectors to produce a convin- invention.” out extensive projects com- cing, economic overall con- petently, single-mindedly and cept. with an understanding of the essentials.

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4 3 HORIZONTAL BANDSAWS

To suit your 4 requirements:

- variable table dimensions - automatic panel cleaning systems - modern user-friendly controls - vacuum tables - low tool costs

Horizontal Bandsaws for Panel Cutting

Cutting blocks into accurately A special guide system as well dimensioned panels, in parti- as optimized dust collection cular high density ones, de- guarantee a high level of pro- An effective panel clea- mands a very special machine duction reliability, particular- ning system sucks the solution. The sawing aggregate ly in the case of abrasive and accumulating dust from the surface of the block must be designed to absorb hard ﬁbre materials. prior to each cut enormous belt tension with absolutely no distortion.

As our horizontal bandsaws were originally produced for wood processing, they are exceptionally sturdy and are equipped with very precise guide and drive elements. It is The technically high 4 therefore possible to produce quality of the equipment excellent cutting surfaces with as well as the sturdy mode of construction of very low tolerance. our customized HTR 800 series guarantee a high cutting capacity. This machine works within a narrow tolerance range and produces an optimum cutting quality

4 3 Examples of Materials With these sawing machines it is also possible to cut high - Polyurethane foam blocks without having to remo- ve the panels that have already - Rock wool been cut. The bandsaw blade - Glass/mineral wool runs round four 800 mm di- Ergonomic control panel - High-temperature- ameter wheels, which means that complete blocks of up to resistant ﬁbre materials 1,500 mm in height can be - AIREX cut. - ROHACELL - Composite honeycomb Spray cooling - Polystyrene cement - Glass foam - Graphite - Sandstone - Aluminium honeycomb High quality servo motors

4 5 CONTOUR CUTTERS

Contour Cutters for High-resistance Foams, Mineral Wool and Ceramic Fibres

A high speed rotating cut- We have continuously develo- HEMA designs its profile cutting wire has revolutionised ped this tried and tested pro- ters to suit the exact require- Adjustable stop system the customized production of cess and are now in a positi- ments of its customers. for multiple panel cutting moulded parts and technical on to supply contour cutters articles. for almost any application and The machine can be equipped material. Half pipes made of with a third CNC axis for ridge PU foam, insulation roof fillers and valley panels used in the made of rockwool, insulating manufacture of sloping roofs. wedges or intricately shaped parts for the packing industry can be cut precisely and very Variable cutting width efficiently.

3-axis CNC machine for 4 ridge and valley panels. Integrated conveyor belt

6 3 4 To suit your requirements:

- a variety of cutting widths and table sizes available - loading facilities from the front and rear of the machine - large-sized touch screen - vacuum table - stop system for panel processing

Examples Our professional machine con- of Products trol panel is Windows-based, well-equipped and easy to operate. Production data can - Insulation roof ﬁllers be transferred directly at the - Roof wedges machine. - Half pipes Our FoamCAD-XP software is - Panels provided for off-line program- - Trimmed pieces ming. With this new develop- - Moulded parts ment even complex work- pieces can be programmed - Sloping roofs faster than ever before. DXF - Ridge and valley panels data transmission is of course possible.

A large-sized touch screen provides optimum ease of use

4 7 VERTICAL CONTOUR CUTTER

Vertical Contour Cutter

HEMA vertical contour cutters The high speed circulating wire With optional additional blades are capable of producing parts can cut small radii just as ac- it is possible to provide a com- of any shape from panels. Se- curately as acute angles, along plete cutting installation so that A well thought out veral panels can be laid on top the entire thickness of the ma- manless night shifts can also height adjustment sys- of each other up to a maximum terial. be operated. tem enables the cutting height to be aligned height of 500 mm. What al- with the workpiece ternative process can achieve this?

Examples of Materials

- PU foam The vertical contour cutters are also equipped - PE foam with our top FoamCAD- XP software - Laminated mineral wool - Fibre materials - Balsa wood - Polystyrene - Rock wool

Machine in operation

8 3 BANDSAWS FOR SANDWICH ELEMENTS

Examples Special guide for longitu- Bandsaws for Sandwich Elements dinal and cross cutting and Panels of Products

Sandwich elements are not ea- Should mitre cuts, corner joints - Cladding elements sy to saw due their structure or other diagonal cuts be re- - High speed doors and varying materials. Circular quired, we can provide custo- - Cold storage saws have a high noise emissi- mised solutions. on and often destroy the fragi- containers Practical stop system le layers of the element. A pneumatic or manually ro- - Container building tatable guide system permits - Rooﬁng elements A bandsaw, on the other hand, both longitudinal and cross cut- can produce a clean cut with ting on the same machine. virtually no burrs. The bonding of the top layer also remains intact.

Mitre cuts on wide panels are also no problem

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Compactly-designed 4 automatic panel cutting machine with pallet feed, leveller and stacking unit

Integrated Solutions – From One Source

HEMA not only provides soluti- All the equipment is from one local conditions. You have one ons to sawing and cutting pro- single source with an integrated contact person only who has blems but also for the “before” design using standardized, tried detailed knowledge of your pro- and “after” stages. We design and tested technology and inte- ject and is responsible for all production lines and manufac- grated safety standards. aspects, right up to commence- turing equipment, tailor-ma- ment of production. This saves de to the requirements of our We also pay careful attention frayed nerves and cash! customers. We offer integrated to the periphery of the equip- concepts covering all stages, ment. For instance, we design from loading the workpiece to high capacity sucking units to palletizing and packing. suit both the machine and the

Conscientious and 4 careful planning guarantee reliable production later

10 3 4 Automatic strip cutting machine for high bulk density products

Panel cutting with 14 circular Our conveyor systems consist Production line with optimized Panel trimming and cutting saws of high quality, durable machine use of space to size in one production parts line using 6 sawing units 4

4 11 CUTTING SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCTION LINE INTEGRATION

Large width pieces are 4 cut using tilted horizontal bandsaws

“Flying Saws”

For continuous processes such The speed of the sawing unit pidly returns to the starting as the polyurethane foaming is increased to that of the pro- position for the next cut. The

4 process, the production of mi- duction line and cutting com- production line often reaches “Flying saw” as assembly neral wool or the manufactu- mences as soon as a synchro- speeds of over 25 m/min. unit for integrating in a sandwich panel produc- re of sandwich panels, “ﬂying nised speed has been reached. tion line saws” are indispensible. Subsequently the machine ra-

An automatic twisting system for the saw band make the sawing up and sawing down processes possible. Particular- ly advantageous for high speed production lines 4

“Flying circular saw” with omega bands for the production of wide sandwich panels. This machine is equipped with an additional blade cleaning system 4

12 3 Examples of Materials

Cutting Systems for Integration - Mineral wool in Production Lines - Wood ﬁbre products - Folded ﬁlters

Production processes frequent- Accurately deﬁned interfaces - PU-foam ly require sawing units within allow for unproblematic inte- - Catalytic converters the production line. We supp- gration. Whether you need to - Chip board ly sawing units for existing as trim, centre, level or cut in- well as new machines which are to sections – make use of our - Cardboard adapted to the product and the know-how! - Rolled goods space available.

4 Cutting width of 3500 mm – could be a world record

4 13 BANDSAWS FOR CUSTOMIZED PRODUCTION

When processing blocks 4 and panels, special sizes in small quantities are often required.

This horizontal bandsaw is equipped with a simple, easy to operate control system which makes a “quick cut” possible. This in turn reduces Serial Production of Mineral Wool and PU-foam delivery times and saves expensive storage space The customized production of For requirements such as these For general cutting purposes we mineral wool or high-resistance HEMA provides a complete pro- provide bandsaw machines in foam is very challenging for the gramme of standard and spe- all cutting heights and widths processor because of the va- cialist machines for any kind of as well as with sliding tables in riety of shapes and number of cut – even the most unusual or a variety of sizes. pieces. “Ordered today – deli- complicated. vered yesterday”- with ﬂexib- le machinery it could “almost” be possible to fulﬁl these de- mands.

14 3 4 Cutting roof insulation ﬁllers and roof wedges is quite tricky …

… the workpiece must be continuously rotated du- ring the cutting process. Not very effective and quite dangerous! But not with this pendulum saw! It travels forwards and backwards and ensures a high cutting capacity, safe operation and a minimal amount of dust

Examples of Products

- Roof insulation ﬁllers Horizontal bandsaw with - Roof wedges holding down rollers - Half pipes - Panels - Trimmed pieces - Shaped parts - Sloping roofs - Ridge panels

Easy to read scale for the roof pitch

4 For the manufacture of sloping roofs HEMA has come up with a real highlight! Equipped with slope adjustment and conveyor belt this horizontal band saw produces “non-stop” diagonal cuts in hard rock wool!

415 MACHINES FOR FLEXIBLE FOAMS

To suit your 4 requirements:

- variety of cutting widths and table sizes available - revolving tables - conveyor tables - digitizing board

CNC Contour Cutters for Flexible Foams

When cutting any shape from The entire machine is stur- Numerous practical auxiliary PU, PE or other ﬂexible foams, dily and precisely built using accessories, a variety of cutting dust is absolutely taboo. high quality durable machine widths and table sizes as well Modern control system parts. as practice-orientated software This is why our newly develo- modules are available. ped MSM 2200 H proﬁle cutting All guide and drive elements, machine produces an absolu- both for the vertical travel as tely dust-free cut . A precisely well as the table drive, are pro- guided, oscillating blade traces tected by bellows. every contour exactly Standard centre guide and cuts the smallest of radii A motor-powered adjustab- just as accurately as sharp- le centre guide and a workpi- edged corners or acute ang- ece clamp are standard equip- les. ment.

The modern Windows-based control system with clear ope- rating instructions is very ea- DXF-design data can be transferred directly to sy to learn and has a substan- the machine tial storage capacity for 40,000 programmes.

16 3 Cutting Machines for Flexible Foams

Our vertical cutting machines The blade wheels have a spe- Dynamic ﬁne balancing and can be used for a variety of cial vulcanised coating with an plane-parallel alignment of purposes including the produc- almost unlimited service life. the blade wheels guarantee top tion of single blocks, panels or quality cutting results and vi- Lever ratchet for series cut-to-size pieces. bration-free travel. cutting (optional)

Primarily heavy foams can be processed on this robust, stable machine. The high blade tension makes it possible to even cut very high pieces accurately. The machine’s “cockpit”

4 A ﬂexible vertical cutting machine is required in the production of ﬂexible foam samples or in the packing industry.

Our newly developed VZS 304 fulﬁls these requirements exactly and is even reasonably priced

4 17 CNC MACHINE CONTROL

FoamCAD-XP contour cutting Clear layout of monitoring system Simple “nesting” and interlacing using programme “drag and drop”

CNC Machine Control System for HEMA Contour Cutters

Programming is great fun with With the mouse you can easi- Newly developed service win- the new Windows-based CNC ly turn, mirror and reposition dows will help you to monitor machine control system! the parts, nest them for opti- all the machine parameters mum utilisation of the material and provide numerous analy- A modern touch screen makes and simulate the whole cutting sis functions. it possible to enter data direct- process on the screen. ly on the screen. A logical and clear arrangement You can write programmes di- of the buttons and a correspon- rectly at the machine or import ding layout of the operation in- ﬁnished data with the aid of the terface enable even complica- simple import function. ted parts and combinations of parts to be produced quickly. Subsequent programme changes can be carried out quickly

and easily directly at the ma- Digitize part Import part (DXF) Parts editor chine.

CNC parts

Speed Supported Programme programming programming editor Machine

CNC programmes

18 3 Programming insulation piping is very Original conﬁgurations are easily Automatic optimisation of cut easy adapted

Programming Possibilities

Any number of geometric ter the data in direct CNC co- in a few minutes from one sin- A single part is quickly digitalized

shapes can be quickly and ea- de. Irrespective of which input gle part. The number of hori- 4 sily created as a CNC part or method is chosen, parts can be zontal or vertical parts to be cut programme using the Foam- subsequently reworked in the is variable and can be adjusted CAD-XP. A variety of input op- editor (turned, mirrored, re- to suit the size of the block by tions are available: sized …). The CNC part (single means of simple counters on part, sample) is then processed the machine. directly on the machine. DXF-Data Transfer Most CAD programmes are Electronic Drawing Board able to display drawing ﬁles Existing drawings or templates in DXF format. With FoamCAD can be scanned using a digiti- contour parts are imported in zer. The received data is then DXF format. In order to produ- directly translated into CNC da- ce sharp-edged corners Foam- ta. CAD automatically adds idling times when the cutting direc- Duplication tion changes. If several of the same or dif- fering parts are to be cut from Parts Editor the material, FoamCAD helps The parts editor makes it you to transfer from part to possible to design geometric programme. With the speed shapes using simple drawing programme you can produce tools. It is also possible to en- a functioning CNC programme

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4 13 PIPE BANDSAWS

Examples of Products

- Plastic pipes - Air ducts - Cladding elements - Hollow plaster boards - Aluminium proﬁles

Bandsaws for Plastic Pipes

We supply a wide range of ma- The saw travels on vibration- The blade´s fulcrum is always chines for cutting 100–1,800 free, stable guide elements, at the centre of the pipe and mm diameter plastic pipes! In thereby executing the actual serves as the point of refe- Mitre cutting a 1000 mm special cases diameters of up feed motion. This whole piece rence diameter pipe to 2,500 mm are possible. of equipment is pivotal to enable segmental arches, T-pieces and branches to be sawn economically and accurately.

With this saw thin-walled 4 air ducts or unstable cladding panels can easily be cut into pieces or mitre cut .

20 3 HORIZONTAL BANDSAWS

Spring-mounted holding down device Horizontal Bandsaws for Deep Drawn Parts

Drawn edges of deep drawn The large diameter of the wheel Variations and accessories: parts can be removed quickly as well as its extremely robust - suction conveyor and economoically using our ho- construction allow even large - cutting chip suction rizontal bandsaw. This can sa- cutting widths to be cut accu- Rapid blade change - variable cutting speed ve a great deal of milling time rately. - central guide on expensive machining cen- tres. The piece is fed by a con- Available cutting widths: veyor belt which means that the 650–2,500 mm bandsaw can be positioned directly behind the deep drawing machine.

4 The HTR 400 is a com- pact horizontal bandsaw which can always be used when samples or a pre-production series have to be produced quickly and simply. However, this machine also proves its worth in continuous operation at- tached to the production HTR 600 - line of a deep drawing with a cutting width of 2,200 mm machine

4 21 PROBLEM SOLUTIONS

Your Product

- Aluminium honeycombs - Balsawood - Composite honeycombs - Fluted ﬁlters - Filter mats - Graphite - High resistance foams

Contour cut on landing ﬂaps Cuts ranging from extreme - Wood for the Airbus A380 diagonal to horizontal - Wood ﬁbre boards - Limestone - Calcium silicate - Plastic pipes - Air bubble sheeting - Air ducts - Mineral wool - Model making boards - Pallets Carpet rolls for car mats Diagonal cutting of foam glass blocks - Paper rolls - Sandwich elements - Rockwool - Polystyrene - Deep drawn parts - Dry ice - Flexible foam - Corrugated cardboard

Large wedge-shape glulam planks Flexible panel cutting (high-resistance and ﬂexible foam)

Test cuts on car batteries Cutting rolls of sheeting into lengths Pre-crushing of hollow plastic containers

22 3 Your Branch

- Aluminium foundry - Car industry - Container production - Roof insulation - Insulating material industry - Cladding construction

- Filter production Hot-wire contour cutting Angle cutting of limestone blocks - Aircraft industry of large EPS parts - Furnace construction - Limestone works - Customized cutting - Plastic tanks - Laboratories/ testing laboratories - Air ducts - Model making Tilted mitre cutting Pre-crushing of large plastic tanks - Pallet repair of large construction elements - Upholstered furniture - Recycling - Pipe insulation - Pipeline construction - Gate manufacture - Packing industry - Wind power plants - Carpentry ﬁrms

Cutting high density foam panels Mitre cutting of aluminium for model making cladding elements

Batch cutting of rubber sheeting Row of horizontal saws “Do you by any chance process a material for cutting rock wool panels that we haven`t cut yet?”

4 23 BANDSAW TECHNOLOGY CUTTING SYSTEMS

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