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Salvamac, the people at the centre – 2021 is another positive year!

All indicators are growing, confirming the validity of the strategies adopted to cope with the economic and structural changes that have occurred in many markets. For Salvamac, which recently celebrated its birthday, it is time to make an assessment of a long and intense industrial history. A company that today seizes every opportunity, perhaps also looking for a new “social approach”...

“After a record-breaking 2019 and a 2020 that ended with an extraordinary growth, we did not expect similar satisfaction in 2021.” This is how co-owner Christian Salvador views the preliminary data of the multinational woodworking machinery specialist group.

“We carried on along the path we had set ourselves,” he continues, “working to consolidate our presence in many markets and to experiment with new opportunities where we are less known. And the results were not lacking, allowing us to close an important three-year period, during which we have accompanied the growth in turnover and the machines produced with a fine-tuning of the company organisation.

“Because selling more requires producing more, giving more and more certainties in terms of service, the ability to guarantee

Salvamac co-owners Ziemowit Dolkowski (left) and Christian Salvador

“In Europe, the growth was made possible by the acquisition of new market share, to which was added the consolidation of the presence in the UK, a market with important results in recent years and which this year – thanks also to the commitment to a deep-rooted on-site presence – has allowed Salvamac to have an edge”

continuity and quality in the relationship with customers and resellers is of paramount importance. In Europe, the growth was made possible by the acquisition of new market share, to which was added the consolidation of the presence in the UK, a market with important results in recent years, and which this year – thanks also to the commitment to a deep-rooted on-site presence – has allowed Salvamac to have an edge.

“Our sector is becoming less and less profitable and, in turn, is asking for more and more investments and an originality that I feel is sometimes missing. Everyone is talking about innovation – originality is a different concept, it means being different not only in the product but also in the ideas, in the way of dealing, in the human aspects.

“Seeing the business not only as coated steel with a few electronic circuits and some cables, but by placing people ahead of everything – something that is perceived less and less. And, in my opinion, human relationships and ethics will have greater importance than in the past.”

Wood cutting with 3S – solid, simple, safe

“The ethical message goes through the details. The Salvamac optimising saws, such as the SalvaPush 2000, are in themselves an ethical product, because cutting wood with these machines means saving 5-15% of the raw material. It also makes work easier and safer for the operator – it is only necessary to load and unload or to mark the wood, so reduces the strain on the worker, who can be moved to more qualified tasks,” says Christian.

“Furthermore,” adds Salvamac co-owner Ziemowit Dolkowski, “the recent evolutions in the entry-level range of the semi-automatic cutting saws, combined with the Salvastop 100 device, have made it possible to achieve incredible results. We have done our best to make our machines even easier and to make wood optimisation an essential part of the process for quality and affordability.

“The software that is entirely ‘made in Salvamac’ for Salvastop 100 will also allow us to offer strong developments in the future, constant implementations that favour the best integration of our saws with the upstream and downstream phases,” says Ziemowit.

“Many producers build machines to which the customer must adapt. As per our philosophy, the customers can follow their own way of working, and do not have to adapt to the machine.”

Salvamac Air & Painting – another step forward

Thanks to Salvamac’s entry into a market which, for over 30 years, it has been oriented towards delivering high-quality products, it is continuously gaining ground in various markets, with an offer that, remaining faithful to the company’s philosophy, ranges from filters and dust-extraction to systems for painting booths, and which includes solutions for companies of different sizes and needs.

The Salvamac Air & Painting division saw “tremendous” growth in 2021, with the move to a new, larger building of 2500m2 on a total area

Salvamac Air & Painting division’s new building

of 5000m2. Marco Trasente, head of the division, explains: “We have much more space to increase our production and our stock, but we are also investing in new technologies, such as in a new production system that includes a new, very powerful laser cutting machine and a folding line with fully automatic loading and unloading.

“In particular, the most recent projects and products confirm Salvamac’s success also in the extraction systems – especially the high-tech

Manufacturing cross-cut saws

extractors of the SuperDep series. These special filters are designed and manufactured using the highest technologies. They are very versatile filter groups, which take up little space, suitable for indoor and outdoor use, extremely functional in extracting dust and wood chips.”

The near future – the people at the centre

“In over 20 years of experience in this business, I have had incredible satisfaction,” says Christian. “We strongly believe in human relationships – our customer is not a serial number but a person with a name and needs. They must be satisfied and happy with our machines in order to smile! The people must be at the centre of everything!

“Let’s say that, unlike many others, we stand up and assume responsibility for what we do! We have to believe in what we do, and have to combine that pinch of emotion with a great deal of calculation and intelligence – think as if you were a giant multinational but have the necessary agility to move very quickly. Because it’s not always the big fish that eat the small ones – sometimes the fast ones eat the slow ones … and, in the next few months, we’ll have some incredible news!”

www.salvamac.com

AMS can service all kinds of woodworking machines – from small to huge

Advanced Machinery Services (AMS), the wellknown woodworking service company based in Leicestershire, can and does repair a wide range of woodworking machinery, from small machines to huge industrial machines such as planer moulders, multi-rip saws and CNC machines.

AMS boasts engineers all over the UK and Ireland, who work in AMS customers’ workshops, helping them with their maintenance and repair work on their machines when they stop working properly. There is a workshop in Leicestershire where the business has at least seven engineers on-site and three apprentices, servicing and rebuilding woodworking machines for clients all over the UK and Ireland.

Gary, AMS’ service director, says: “We are able to service all type of woodworking machines, from small machines to huge planer-moulders. At the moment, we are servicing a nine-head Leadermac high-speed planer-moulder, and at the same time we are finishing two Wadkin multi-head moulders and two Wadkin four-sided planers. All our engineers have the expertise and experience to provide meaningful reactive and proactive service solutions, as well as informative and engaging training sessions.”

The AMS service engineers are experts in Wadkin, because most of the engineering team have been Wadkin trained. They also specialise in the maintenance and repair of Weinig, SCM, Wadkin Bursgreen, Leadermac, Altendorf, Interwood, Multico, Sedgewick, Striebig, Felder, Martin, Startrite and Robland woodworking machinery, and many more besides.

Gary continues: “We love to rebuild and refurbish old machines and convert them into as-new machines. When the rebuilt/refurbished machines leave our workshop, they are ready to give years and years of service in our customer workshops.”

The AMS service engineers explain how the AMS service department works: “If you need help in your workshop such as repair, pre-planned maintenance, installation, training or moving machines to a new workshop, just contact us – we’re here to help. The service team will ask some questions about your machines and they will send a quotation. After that, if you are happy, one of the AMS engineers will visit your workshop, they will service your machine, and, only if needed, will replace parts, leaving your machine in a fully operational condition and ready to run.”

The AMS service department also has an emergency call-out service and a free service survey facility, as well as a spare parts/tooling/ training department and rebuild/refurbish programme.

0116 259 8900 servicing@advancedmachinery.co.uk www.advancedmachinery.co.uk

Xylexpo – work in progress for the event launch

Xylexpo, the biennial world exhibition for woodworking technology and components for the furniture industry, is changing its settlement period, moving from spring to autumn, to meet the investment needs of visitors who, after the pandemic, are confronted with a radically changed exhibition calendar.

The event, promoted by ACIMALL, the association of Italian manufacturers of woodworking machinery and tools, and organised by CEPRA, will take place from 1215th October 2022 at fieramilano Rho.

With this decision, Xylexpo will be the starting point of an innovation cycle that will span the 2022-24 period, reaffirming its role as “the ideal stage” to preview the new technologies developed by industry players in these years of almost total absence of exhibition appointments.

Recognised as a principal international exhibition of high technology for woodworking, Xylexpo will take place concurrently with BI-MU, the biennial international exhibition of machine tools for metalworking, which will be held in the halls facing the Xylexpo area.

The synergy between the two exhibition events – which have already agreed on total and reciprocal admission permeability for the 100,000 operators expected in Milan – will allow Xylexpo to increase its visibility with the international public, for the benefit of the companies exhibiting at the event.

Details of the forthcoming event, plus the presentation of the many novelties that will characterise the next edition of Xylexpo, together with the application form, are now available online.

www.xylexpo.com

Kite Packaging invests in new mobile packaging laboratory

Kite Packaging continues to lead the way with its culture of innovation, by announcing the new arrival of a purpose-built, state-ofthe-art mobile packaging laboratory (MPL). Incorporating a focus on the company’s green credentials, the brand-new mobile facility hosts innovative features, the most up-todate equipment, an abundance of space and custom-built testing facilities.

The new laboratory accommodates a complete range of packaging machinery and systems to showcase Kite’s multitude of solutions available to existing and prospective customers. A range of customer packaging solutions can be trialled and tested live in the mobile lab, with a purposebuilt box testing facility (including a precision multi access drop test attachment) and state-ofthe-art load stability-testing function.

Kite has a reputation for a focus on sustainability and so this, its latest generation of mobile facility, has been designed and built to incorporate a green energy solution.

The trailer section is entirely run on solar power taken from the roof-mounted panels. The plastic panels which make up the lab interior are made from 80% recycled content, demonstrating that at any opportunity, Kite will continue to help the planet. Gavin Ashe, Kite Packaging’s managing partner, comments: “This new MPL represents a significant investment by Kite to help our customers find a more efficient and greener packaging solution. It allows us to take what is probably the bestequipped packaging innovation and testing facility directly to our customers.”