MAIER Knife Ring Maintenance Center

Application

  • Wood-based panel plants (PB, OSB)
  • Suitable for different types of flakers

Description

The MAIER Knife Ring Maintenance Center is an automated multimodular system enabling quick sharpening and precise adjustment of flaker knife rings with various diameters and cutting geometries.

The system measures, cleans and disassembles the knife packages before analyzing the wear on the knives and individual sharpening or replacing them. After reassembly and adjustment, the knife packages are remounted in the knife ring.

Customer benefits

  • Improved flake quality due to continuously maintained ring components and knives
  • Increased performance by reduced downtime and more knife rings processed per shift
  • Reduced wear cost by wear-based knife sharpening
  • Savings thanks to extended knife service life and less staff operating time

Technical features

  • Automated multimodular maintenance of knife rings
  • Suitable for knife rings with various diameters and cutting geometries
  • Wear-based knife sharpening
  • Emulsion-free high-speed sharpening technology
  • Precise knife protrusion adjustment according to wear plate abrasion
  • Automated wear analysis and reporting
  • Cleaning of knife ring components

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MAIER Knife Ring Maintenance Center

Knife Ring Maintenance Center