Objective
The objective of the project is the development of a complete cutting line for hardwood cutting especialy adapted to small and medium european companies The process is located between log breakdown and secondary transformation and consists of sawing un-edged hardwood lumber (boules) into rectangular and complex shaped pieces with the highest value and recovery yield. It will take into account the complexity of the pattern (straight and curved pieces) and the raw material heterogeneity. The innovation will first concern the improvement and adaptation of a cutting laser system to saw solid hardwood, species such as beech or oak, up to 50 mm in thickness. The minimal cutting speed will be 5 m/min on 35 mm in thickness, with a depth of burnt surface limited to 0.3 mm, in one pass, in industrial conditions. The systeme will also be able to mark on the lumber sawing patern to be process with conventional saws. Because un-edged lumber is a very heterogene raw material (shape, defects, different quality zone), the second part of the innovation will be to develop a scanning station and an optimizer to improve the value and the recovery yield. They will have to be able to work on undefined raw and finish product shapes with different quality zones, a wide range of defect kinds. They also will take into account that with laser we are not any more limited to straight cutting from edge to edge. With conventional sawing, the average recovery yield is 50 %. Our objective is to increase the value yield from the same raw material by at least 25 % . The introduction of laser cutting coupled with a new optimization concept applied to solid wood processing is a very important step for the sawmill and furniture industry. To prove the results we will build a prototype working in industrial conditions . It will be also used for the technology tranfer to the industry. On average, SMEs involved in this project machine about 6000 m3/year of lumber, average size of the relevant targetted market for the innovation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering woodworking
- natural sciences physical sciences optics laser physics
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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Coordinator
HP12 3TR High Wycombe
United Kingdom
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