Hardwood Floors October/November 2025

PRODUCT FOCUS Floor Manufacturing Equipment

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AKHURST MACHINERY Marinus Powermax The Marinus Powermax is a high production end matcher that can be used for hardwood/softwood tongue and groove flooring to wall and ceiling paneling. Its unique design combines defecting, cutting to length, and end matching processes to be carried out in one machine, increasing throughput with a reduced footprint. akhurst.com HASKO HSSC Extra Our goal was to build one of the best machines in the world for processing rough or planed hardwood and softwood lumber strips. The HASKO HSSC Extra is an automated chopsaw designed to operate accurately at faster feed and acceleration rates than most saw machines. haskomachines.com

EAGLE MACHINERY & SUPPLY INC. EagleEye Talon Vision Saw

The EagleEye Talon Vision Saw combines two-sided, vision-based defect scanning with high-speed crosscutting in a single machine. The integration of these two processes allows for greater accessibility for ease of calibration and machine maintenance, along with easy access to scanning hardware. eaglemachines.com LICO MACHINERY INC. Wood Flooring Equipment For more than 25 years, Lico Machinery Inc. has stood out for the quality and reliability of its equipment, the flexibility of its adapted solutions, and its unmatched dedication to customer service. Lico specializes in the design and manufacture of wood flooring equipment such as ripping systems, automated cross-cutting systems, and grading systems. licoinc.net

HIGH-CAPACITY OPTIMIZED CROSS-CUT SAW SYSTEM STO SERIES

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MESSERSMITH MANUFACTURING INC. Biomass Wood Boiler System The Messersmith traveling auger pulls fuel from the storage bin onto a conveyor, which leads to the metering bin. The metering auger conveys fuel from this bin to the stoker auger. The stoker auger quickly moves the fuel onto the specially designed grates in the combustor to be burned. burnchips.com

OGDEN GROUP PUR Press In the flooring industry, the PUR

Continuous Roll Feed Press is a fast and efficient method for laminating the top veneer wear layer to the plywood substrate using PUR adhesives. This heavy-duty designed press can be equipped with an automatic in-feed which places the random length veneer on top of the plywood. ogden-group.com

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