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Gilbert: High productivity no matter the conditions!
For over 35 years, Gilbert Products has been the market in leader in the design and manufacturing of sawmilling, construction and forestry equipment as well as snow groomers. Totally oriented towards innovation, quality and production, Gilbert offers highly profitable methods and technological equipment surpassing the industry standards.
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For this reason, Gilbert developed the GRIP system: Gilbert Roll Intelligent Positioning. (Grip system installed on a Gilbert 6 Roll Planer.)
This system can be offered with each model of Gilbert’s line of planers. It is controlled with the Gilbert Automatic Positioning System. This system moves the top rolls to a certain position and holds contact on the board. It keeps a well sustaining sufficient force without damaging the lumber. It
Once again, Gilbert has pushed the limits of its Planer Equipment.
New options have been designed, installed and proven, to adapt to the specific requirements of its Planermill customers.
There are more and more customers that receive their wood supply from different sawmills. The products can be very different from day to day. The Gilbert planer has proven to be significantly high performing when planning boards with large thickness variation. It will handle thick and thin boards as well as boards with a total different quality of fiber.
Flexibility and the capacity to easily adapt to new products becomes essential.
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(1"( 20mm) boards, coming in the planerline with important thickness variation).
optimizes the feeding of the boards that are too thick, too thin and too fragile. All can be fed keeping a high operation efficiency. It has also helped mills increase piece count.
A client from South Carolina, stated ‘’I can amazingly run all my Southern Yellow Pine 1’’ boards through this machine. I used to have lots of breakage and had to run real slow. I have increased speed and efficiency with the Grip!’’
By using its unique PullThrough technology, the Gilbert Planer handles the boards one by one, keeping a small gap between each board. Therefore, it is easy to apply the right force on each board.
Safety, a Priority!
In order to always offer its customers the best planing solutions, Gilbert has continually been developing a range of automatic upgrades designed to increase planer efficiency and make the planer room a much SAFER environment.
The Gilbert Automatic Cutterhead Positioning System controls the cutterheads and an unlimited number of axes for optimal precision and higher grades. Easy to use, the automatic positioning system allows fast and easy recipe changes offering greater flexibility, less downtime and a safe environment.
Many automatic and safety functions have been developed over the past years, like top and bottom head jointers, side head jointers, top head pressure plate, width and height adjustment, after-cut shoes and triple pattern side heads. Very precise, these automatic upgrades increase the quality of the wood finish, ensure safety and efficiency. Adjustments are made remotely from the HMI screen outside the planer room, or from a tablet or phone anywhere in the mill. With special features like the triple pattern side heads, the operator can remotely switch from one pattern to the other, without stopping for jointing, or changing side heads on the machine. Keeps nicer finish, and less work required!
Gilbert’s Engineering team is presently working on making the planer more and more intelligent.
For many years, they have been making upgrades to make the planer more performing for its customers. Coming soon, many more options will be available to offer a semi-automatic machine that can auto adjust itself without operator intervention.
Gilbert is comprised of a team of 135 workers, all devoted to making the best planer in the world, and a grand team of aftersale technicians, available 24/7 to support customers worldwide. Distance is no obstacle to our service team who easily and efficiently offers online remote controlled service to customers worldwide.
We invite you to visit www. gilbert-tech.com to view the complete line of planers and learn more about the company and all its divisions.
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