More than 2,500 visitors from all over Europe, Asia, and North and South America, crowded the SCM Group headquarters in Rimini (Italy) late in September last year to open its new Technology Centre dedicated to the entire woodworking industry.

This new 4,000-square-metre space presents technological and digital innovations for every machining requirement in the furniture industry, windows and doors production, timber construction and bespoke joinery. The centre was created as part of a re-development plan involving an additional 11,000 square metres of the entire Rimini industrial site.

Other investments, totalling an increase of 20,000 square metres, were made to increase production efficiency at the SCM sites in Monza, Piacenza and Siena, as well as at the Villa Verucchio site of the SCM-controlled company, Hiteco, which specialises in electro-mechanical components.

In the new Technology Centre every detail has been designed to offer the widest range of technologies and services and provide integrated, connected, flexible, more sustainable and optimised processes at each stage of secondary wood processing.

The event was an opportunity to discover the latest solutions developed by the Group which combine the strong technological skill to produce solutions for furniture, doors and windows, timber construction and artisan joinery with the development of software and services, to accompany the client at each stage of their production process.

The centre displays automated and connected solutions, as well as interaction systems between humans, machines, articulated robots and AMR shuttles, software and digital services.

On display is the Gabbiani VSI vertical panel saw with independent motors for main blade and scorer, with mechanical plunging designed to make horizontal and vertical cuts on different types of wood materials.

Making its debut was the new Maestro Edgestore manager software for centralised control of the customer’s edges: it ensures their use and position in the warehouse are always under control, as well as sharing information with software and company management systems.

SCM presented the latest entries of DMC Eurosystem and DMC SD 90 for sanding and calibrating.

Superfici specialists presented the latest trends for finishing, standing out among the new solutions digitally illustrated for spraying robotic solutions. Also on display was the new System-9 integrated line for windows and doors manufacturing, which includes another absolute novelty: the Celaschi action double-sided tenoning machine.

Another attraction was Windorflex, the new automatic machining cell for producing complete windows, designed to optimise production rhythms by maintaining high flexibility and excellent finishing.