Wadley, GA— Frances Cooper, CEO of Cooper Machine, headquartered here, has announced the recent installation of another three saw edger project in Denmark, SC at Denmark Lumber Company, part of the Beasley Group. This system includes a drop belt and cant catcher where the cants and boards are separated off the carriage. Then the boards go to a 66-foot rollcase with two sets of jump chains and over to a collection deck and through a 3-inch three saw edger with a self-tailing outfeed, to separate the strips from the boards. Then it’s over to a 20-foot outfeed rollcase and kicks off onto a landing deck. Allen Bradley Controls and Starter Panel were included.
Cooper Machine also has an improved design for its VSA to make pallet boards. This is part of the slab recovery system Cooper Machine offers. The new design is built more like a vertical edger. According to Cooper, this machine works better optimized, because it shifts every slab to ensure the customer gets no shim boards to jam up the machine and comes out finished lumber. The slabs will travel down a belt and be scanned lineally with a top scanner (JS-25 MX). The raw board data from the scanner will then be inserted into the A&E optimizer where a 3D profiler will optimize the slab to user defined products. The product fit will be based on full length/clear wood products that are set up by the user. The slab will continue down into VSA infeed side rollers. Saw bank is on a linear axis, and this axis will have an MTS temposonic probe with servo valve. The sawing head is controlled by the PLC/Opti system based on the product fit required. Cooper Machine works with A&E on the optimization.
Cooper Machine has recently completed several other repair projects, including an Igus upgrade on their existing scraggs so that they can continue to deliver at peak performance.
Cooper Machine continues to provide custom equipment solutions to fit the needs of its customers, as well as solutions to reduce labor. For more information on Cooper Machine’s product offerings, you can call Cooper Machine at 478-252-5885. Or you can learn more at www.coopermachine.com.
