Cameron Automation’s Rack & Stack received the Challengers Award on the latest Worldwide Woodworking Honest (IWF) 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. Cameron Automation says the Rack & Stack is the latest improvement of a brand new automated nesting and bundling machine for the flooring trade. Designed to nest and bundle flooring strips as much as 5″ vast and bundles as much as 7.5′ lengthy, the corporate says the Rack & Stack can deal with a mean of 30 boards per minute, will increase yield over hand nesting, and requires minimal flooring area.

The Rack & Stack is designed to precisely measure every board, kind, nest, and construct bundles primarily based on a buyer’s wants. In keeping with the corporate, the Servo Pushed Rack System is designed with a steep angle that makes use of gravity to its benefit. Boards are launched and slide out and in of the 12 slots on the rack rapidly and constantly and are assembled into rows, layers, and eventually a completed bundle. Cameron Automation says most significantly, it creates bundles the precise sq. footage wanted, growing earnings by as much as 2.5 %, and {that a} 2.5 % yield financial savings equates to 1 further bundle for each 40 shipped.

The aim of the Challengers Award is to encourage and promote the event of progressive new expertise within the subject of woodworking equipment, provides, and providers for the furnishings, kitchen cupboard, architectural woodwork, retailer fixture, upholstery, or specialty and normal wooden product industries. From the unique subject of 86 contestants, 20 finalists had been chosen, and 7 winners had been introduced.