Goldeneye 900: Perfect solution for SME’s
“My company is only medium-sized – not an industrial-scale company with a cutting volume of 1 million m³ a year. It wouldn’t pay off to invest in a scanner.” MiCROTEC knows that this opinion is quite common among many small or medium-sized sawmills. One of the company’s reference customers in Italy is proof that purchasing optimization solutions pays off especially for such companies. The Mariana Luigi sawmill, which cuts around 35,000 m³ of log wood a year, has been a MiCROTEC customer for many years and has been making repeated investments in its scanner solutions.
The most recent MiCROTEC solution installed at Mariana Luigi is a scanner inside the Springer sorting line, for which MiCROTEC already supplied the electronics. Last year, the Goldeneye Transverse, a high-precision multi-sensor grading scanner with a crosswise transport system, was integrated into the line. “This scanner reliably determines the surface quality of green, dry or planed lumber from all four sides. The seamless integration of color and laser imaging in a multi-sensor system enables a quick and uncomplicated installation and increases production output,” Martin Baumgartner, sales account manager at MiCROTEC, explains.
MiCROTEC’s Variosort control suite supervises the fully automated sorting process. “Thanks to the scanner, much more homogeneous results can be achieved in sorting,” Baumgartner says about one of the major advantages. The scanner has been used in lumber sorting since October 2023. Even after such a short time, Maurizio Mariana, managing director of Mariana Luigi, is more than satisfied with his decision. “With the Goldeneye 900, we can scan 80 boards per minute. Also, its sorting and optimization accuracy when selecting lengths and qualities is exceptional and could never be achieved by one operator alone,” he sums up.
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