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L EUCOline Highlights 2014 page 1 HIGHLIGHTS 2014 TB A LE OF CONTENTS 2 LEUCO p-SYSTEM Why should I buy a p-System? Real-life examples 5RU TH O GH-FEED MANUFACTURING High-speed hogging New jointing cutters, edge trimming 8 CIRCULAR SAW BLADES The new „No-noise saw blades“ Panel sizing, sizing, trimming 11 „NON-WOOD PROCESSINg“ Systematic way of cutting window profiles I DO NEED GOOD Tools for aluminum composite materials 12 STATIONARY PRocessING TOOLS! Door production: serial and batch size 1 Clever solutions for 5-axis processing 16 MACHINING OF solID WOOD OF COURSE! p-System profile cutters in saw mills AND WE DO HAVE Small fingers, large yield THOSE. 18 SERVIces Market report flooring LVT S harpening service logistics, tool management 20 LEUCO IN-HOUSE LEUCO worldwide LEUCO management board 22 1954 - 2014 Wealth of ideas - the heart of LEUCO L EUCO´s 60th anniversary www.leuco.com page 2 Highlights 2014 LEUCOline T ools on LEUCO p-System basis „ECO ON MIC MiraCLE“ How do you calculate the economic efficien- Why does each degree in shear angle cy of a tool? Economic efficiency is defined count? by profit divided by expenditure. Transferred The edge life of tools is clearly increasing to tools, profit means edge life and expen- with larger shear angles. The cutting edge is diture means the price of the tool. exposed to less pressure. This means less In order to make a tool economical the edge wear and longer edge life. life performance must be higher in proporti- on to the surplus price. THIS INCREASE OF EDGE Free of charge ... Apart from the reduction of tool costs and How can you calculate the economic effici- LIFE BY ITSELF MAKES the increase in profit you will receive: ency of the LEUCO p-System tools? THE p-SYSTEM THE MOST | free of charge excellent cutting quality, You only have to consider the edge life in ECONOMIC tool IN THE | reduced machine downtimes thanks to less relation to the tool´s shear angle. The edge tool changes, life of a tool with a shear angle of 55° is INDUSTRY SEGMENT. | chip-free quality when cutting on end, new twice as long compared to a common | processing possibilities also for difficult ma shear angle of 35° for instance. The p-Sys- How are resharpening costs of the diamond- terials tem tool with a shear angle of 70° reaches tipped LEUCO p-System tools included? | and much more. 8 times the edge life. This was documen- After resharpening, the tools reach the extre- ted by the engineers of the LEUCO R&D mely long edge lives once again and additio- Please read the examples on pages 3, 4, department. nally increase the profit. and 16. L EUCO System Philosophy LEU CO p-SYsteM Jointing CHAMFERING RABBeting Grooving Profile CUTTING P EELING – THE REVOLUTIONARY wood PROCessing TEChnologY BY MEANS OF THE PATENTED p-SYSTEM LEU CO PATENT FOR THE PEEL IT, SEE IT, FEEL IT! StationarY OR THROUGH I best cutting quality in the whole industry segment FEED PROCessing I long edge lives Video about I materials and applications which have been www.leuco.com / considered as technically impossible so far. LEUCO p-System www.leuco.com LEUCOline Highlights 2014 page 3 WHY SHOULD I BUY A p-SYSTEM? Be cAUSE EVERY degREE OF SHEAR ANgLE MORE PAYS off! Report of the LEUCO edge life documentation T he most economical tool of the industry segment TEH journeY to R EAL-LIFE EXAMPLE How does the LEUCO p-System pay off DUBai for a kitchen manufacturer? Or: only a nail can stop us What did you do in November 2010? LEUCO A large kitchen manufacturer produces the mounted a p-System tool for milling the long cabinet components on several production side of hard wood scantlings. The cutter which lines and processes pre-coated 16 mm and was in operation at the parquet manufacturer 19 mm particle boards. Production is made Bauwerk in Switzerland was stopped in Febru- on through-feed machines with feedrates ary 2014 only because of a steel pin in the of up to 70 m/min. The customer´s demand wood. as to jointing is finish-quality as the edging „It is true that planing knives are much less ex- of the panel is done directly afterwards. pensive compared to a p-System tool, but after 4,906,729 running meters and an edge life of For approx. 2 years the kitchen manufac- 3.5 years the p-System proved highly effici- turer has been using LEUCO p-System join- ent,” says Paul Hehle of Bauwerk. „The p-Sys- ting cutters with a shear angle of 70°. De- tem was not resharpened. I only cleaned it tailed edge life analyses prove: compared from time to time.“ to the previous standard jointing cutters On one machine jointing is done without „The approx. 5 million running meter match this solution offers 1 million running meters hoggers with and against feed. On another machine hogging is done with the distance between Hamburg and Dubai. per edge life which means 10 times the LEUCO PowerTec hoggers in a double hogging Each single cutting edge cut the distance bet- edge life of the standard cutters. process. The next step is jointing with LEUCO ween Leipzig and Göteborg“, explains Dr. p-System cutters. Dressler from the LEUCO R&D Department. The production manager reports: Below: p-System jointing cutter „Even if I was given the planing knives free of „We were able to reduce waste due to edge charge, the p-System would be more inexpen- chippings in the decor by 80-90%. As well, sive,” states Hehle. machine downtime caused by the change A parquet scantling processed with the dama- of jointing cutters could be reduced by ged tool still shows an excellent cutting quality 90%.“ next to the damaged spot on the cutting edge. The microscope picture shows that next to the These two factors by themselves allowed break the cutting edge is still sharp. savings in the six-digit range. The LEUCO This means that the way back from Dubai to p-System pays off! Hamburg would certainly have been possi- ble without the steel pin. With all advan- tages. S top after 4,906,729 running meters only because of a nail in the wood. www.leuco.com page 4 Highlights 2014 LEUCOline Applications NW E QUALITY DIMENSIONS and appliCATION POSSIBILITIES Peeling - The revolutionary wood processing technology by LEUCO FINISHED! cHIP-FREE! ProtecTION FOIL! Milling with finish-cut quality without Chip-free jointing of Long edge lives in the case of high-gloss postprocessing veneerd boards material with protection foil The p-System produces edges in finish-cut The cutting edges of the p-System cut veneer As soon as the foil was no longer cleanly cut, quality, time-consuming sanding is no longer like a sharp knife. Across the veneer they the tools were changed. Thanks to the shear necessary. hardly exert cutting force and make a clean angle design the p-System cuts the foil „sharp cut, regardless whether the veneer overlap is 2 as a razor“ which allows to benefit from the or 10 mm. whole edge life of the cutter. mbH Save TIME G ! Image: HOMAG Holzbearbeitungssysteme Holzbearbeitungssysteme Image: HOMAG Reduction of downtimes Preparing edges for zero joint In the case of end-grain cutting, the p-System often allows to pass the edge against the feed without Thanks to the cutting edges with very large shear causing edge chipping. This also works with edged workpiece materials depending on edge thickness angle, p-System tools cut the surface „like a pair of and board quality; tool changes are no longer necessary, machine downtimes can be reduced. scissors“ with exceptional edge quality without micro chippings. Peel it! E ASY MILLINg OF LIgHTWEIgHT panels SEE it! FEEL it! Why is the LEUCO p-System the ideal tool system? Especially thanks to the LEUCO p-System fibres can be cut extremely well. This results So far: Jointing quality with TC tipped turn over in a good cutting quality not only along the knives grain but also across the grain. Thus, in wood-based panels such as plywood a clearly Machining of solid wood with a diamond- increased surface quality can be obtained tipped tool already by jointing. In such material the cri- In addition, we want to point out that the tical cutting direction across the grain deter- LEUCO p-System tool is a diamond tool with mines the cutting quality. The round ope- a much longer edge life than a carbide-tip- ning on the pictures clearly shows the ped turnover knife tool. So far, the meaning New: Opening in the same poplar plywood difference in quality. The p-System cut sepa- was that such materials consisting of solid processed by means of a diamond-tipped LEUCO rates all layers cleanly, the turnover knife cut wood layers require the sharper cutting edge p-System tool. It can be seen and felt that all creates a raw surface in all layers across the of tungsten carbide. layers have a smooth and clean surface in spite of the difficult fibrous wood type poplar. grain. www.leuco.com LEUCOline Highlights 2014 page 5 Recently included in the product range! NEW: Adjustable diamond tip- U PDATE of DP JOINTING Cutters ped (DP) jointing cutter WITH full height diaMOND tips One-part jointing cutter up to D 220 and an adjustable DP jointing cutter Both jointing cutters are destined for the use 28 mm. Customers processing panel thick- adju- on double-end tenoners and are suitable for nesses from 19 – 25 mm can adjust the cut- s t a b l e chip-free jointing of melamine-, paper-, HPL- ter 3 times and reach up to 4 single edge lives jointing laminated and veneered panels! The one-part per resharpening interval.