Automatic Plugging Machines
Wood refining
Improve your product quality and replace damaged areas such as knots, resin pockets and other wood defects in your solid wood panel.
Reduce your purchasing costs by sourcing solid wood panels with defects, which you can then refine using our machines.
With our automatic patching machines, you can give your workpiece quality, stability, durability and, last but not least, a better appearance. You can choose to patch knots with real knot dowels or patches from batten and/or replace resin galls with resin gall patches.
After sanding the patched solid wood workpiece, you will hardly see any traces of the patched areas. By varnishing the workpiece, the patched areas disappear.
Left: real knot plug
Middle: normal plug
Right: pitch pocket plug
al310 series
Automatic Knot Plugging Machine - Alomat AL310L-A
Single-spindle machine for plugging wood defects. The 2-in-1 automatic plugging machine produces normal plugs from battens. Alternatively, use of prefabricated real knot plugs from plug bunkers. Workpiece clamping by lowering the unit. Cycle time approx. 2.2 s.
Automatic Plugging Machine - Alomat AL310A-HGF
Two-spindle plugging machine with 2 stations for plugging knots, pitch pockets and other wood defects. The 2-in-1 plugging machine uses prefabricated real knot plugs from plug bunkers and pitch pocket plugs, which are fed in via spiral conveyor. Workpiece clamping by lowering the unit. Cycle times: real knot plugs approx. 2.2 s; pitch pocket plugs approx. 3.5 s.
hgf series
al100 series
Automatic Plugging Machine - Alomat AL100ASE-HGF
Two-spindle plugging machine with 2 stations for plugging knots and pitch pockets. The 3-in-1 automatic plugging machine uses either battens to produce normal plugs or prefabricated real knot plugs with a knot plug insertion device. On the other hand, it uses prefabricated pitch pocket plugs, which are fed by a spiral conveyor. Workpiece clamping by lifting the table. Cycle time approx. 3.5 s each.
Our Automatic Plugging Machines at a Glance:
| Machine type | Cycle time [s] | Normal plugs from batten | Real knot plugs | Pitch pocket plugs | Number of processing options in one machine |
| AL310 | 1.8 | yes | 1 | ||
| AL310L-A | 2.2 | yes | yes | 2 | |
| AL310A-HGF | 3.5 | yes | yes | 2 | |
| AL100 | 3.5 | yes | 1 | ||
| AL100-ASE-HGF | 3.5 | yes | yes | yes | 3 |
| AL200 | 3.5 | yes | 2 | ||
| HGF310 | 3.5 | yes | 1 |