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I. Introduction to Fiberboard
Fiberboard is an engineered wood panel primarily made from wood or other plant fibers. The manufacturing process involves fiber separation, resin application (typically urea-formaldehyde, phenol-formaldehyde, or MDI), drying, mat forming, followed by hot pressing under high temperature and pressure.
Main Types:
Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF): The most prevalent type, with a density range of 450-880 kg/m³. It offers excellent machinability, smooth surfaces, and easy finishing/lamination. Widely used in furniture, interior decoration, door cores, and packaging.
High Density Fiberboard (HDF): Density typically exceeds 800 kg/m³, often surpassing 1000 kg/m³. Characterized by high hardness, strength, and impact resistance. Commonly used as laminate flooring substrate, interior/exterior wall panels, and applications demanding high wear resistance or strength.
Low Density Fiberboard (LDF): Density below 450 kg/m³. Lightweight with good thermal insulation and sound absorption properties, but lower strength. Primarily used for interior partition walls and acoustic panels.
Core Production Process: For all types, hot pressing is the critical stage. This process cures the resin binder between fibers, transforming the loose fiber mat into a solid panel with defined thickness, density, and physical/mechanical properties.
II. Introduction to Continuous Presses
Prior to continuous presses, fiberboard was mainly produced using batch-type multi-opening hot presses. These were inefficient (requiring cyclic loading, pressing, curing, and unloading), energy-intensive, and offered relatively poorer surface quality and thickness control.
Advent of Continuous Presses: To overcome the limitations of batch presses, continuous presses emerged in the 1980s and rapidly became the mainstream equipment for MDF/HDF production. The Continuous Belt Press is the dominant type.
Continuous Belt Press Working Principle:
1. Forming: Dried and resinated fibers are spread uniformly via a forming station onto a moving bottom steel belt, creating a continuous fiber mat.
2. Infeed: The formed mat enters the press inlet.
3. Pressing & Heating:
The mat is sandwiched between two massive, endless loop heat-resistant steel belts.
Driven by rollers, the steel belts continuously transport the mat through a pressing zone consisting of multiple sets (dozens to over a hundred) of heating platens.
Heating platens are internally heated by high-temperature thermal oil (or steam), transferring heat to the mat via the steel belts.
Each platen is connected to independent hydraulic cylinders (or oil systems). These cylinders precisely control the pressure applied to the corresponding section of the mat according to a predefined pressure profile.
The press is divided into multiple pressure zones and temperature zones along its length. Highest pressure is applied at the inlet (to rapidly compress the mat to target thickness) with lower temperature (to prevent surface pre-cure). Intermediate zones have gradually reduced pressure and peak temperature (to ensure core resin curing). The outlet zone applies minimal pressure and reduced temperature (for panel setting and minimizing springback).
steel belt
hot pressboard
4. Curing & Setting: While moving continuously under precisely controlled temperature and pressure profiles, the resin binder cures, bonding the fibers into a solid, continuous panel with stable thickness and density.
5. Panel Exit & Cooling: The cured continuous panel exits the press, is cut to length (typically by synchronized flying saws), and then enters a cooling star cooler or rack for cooling and stacking.
cooling machine
sanding machine for fiberboard
Key Advantages of Continuous Belt Presses:
1.Extremely High Production Efficiency: Continuous operation eliminates cycle time, enabling significantly higher single-line capacity than multi-opening presses (capable of thousands of cubic meters per day).
2.Superior Product Quality:
Minimal thickness tolerance (±0.1mm or better achievable).
Highly uniform density distribution (lengthwise and widthwise).
Excellent surface flatness.
Consistent physical/mechanical properties.
3.Significantly Reduced Energy Consumption: Continuous production minimizes intermittent heat losses, lowering energy use per unit product.
4.High Automation: Easily integrates with full-process automated control and online quality monitoring.
5.Production Flexibility: Enables quick thickness changes (within range, no caul sheet changes needed) and relatively flexible recipe adjustments.
III. Common Specifications for "Wide" Continuous Presses
"Wide" Definition: Relative to earlier or standard-capacity lines, "wide" typically refers to continuous presses with an effective pressing width exceeding 2.5 meters (approx. 8 feet). This is the standard configuration for new, large-capacity mainstream lines.
Common Wide Width Range:
1.Mainstream Wide Width: 2.5m (8') - 3.0m (9.8') is the most common range.
E.g., 2.5m, 2.7m, 2.8m, 3.0m.
2.Corresponding Product Width: The press effective width determines the rough panel width. Typically, the rough panel width is 100-300mm less than the press width (for edge trimming).
3.Length: Continuous press length generally ranges from 30 meters to over 60 meters, depending on design capacity, product thickness range, and pressing requirements. Longer presses provide more dwell time under high pressure/temperature, beneficial for thicker boards or those requiring full cure (e.g., thick HDF or special resins).
4.Typical Capacity: A suitable continuous press line with an effective width of 2.5-3.0m can achieve an annual capacity typically between 300,000 m³ to 700,000 m³ (depending on specific design, product thickness, operational efficiency). Daily output can exceed 1000 m³.
5.Product Thickness Range: Modern wide continuous presses typically produce fiberboard from 2mm to 40mm (or thicker), covering thin to thick board requirements.
IV. Specification Characteristics of "Super-Wide" Fiberboard Continuous Presses
"Super-wide" denotes an even higher specification than "wide," representing the pinnacle of current continuous press technology, primarily used for building world-scale giant fiberboard production lines.
"Super-Wide" Definition: Typically refers to continuous presses with an effective pressing width exceeding 3.0m (9.8'), reaching 3.5m (11.5'), 4.0m (13.1'), or even larger.
Core Specification Characteristics:
1. Massive Effective Width: The most prominent feature. Common super-wide specifications include 3.5m, 3.8m, 4.0m, 4.2m, 4.8m (16'), etc. A 4.8m wide press can produce rough panels close to 4.6m wide.
2. Extra-Long Press Length: To match the massive width and achieve high capacity/thick board production, super-wide presses are often significantly longer, reaching 60 meters or even over 70 meters. This provides sufficient pressing and heating distance.
3. Very High Design Capacity: Super-wide presses are built for extreme economies of scale. Single-line annual design capacity is typically over 700,000 m³, often exceeding 1 million m³. Daily output can reach 3000 m³ or higher. One such line can match the output of multiple traditional factories.
4. Advanced Steel Belt Technology:
Massive Size & Thickness: Belts must match the press width and are over 100 meters long (forming the loop). Requirements for thickness, strength, stiffness, and thermal conductivity are extremely high.
Precision Tensioning & Tracking Systems: Ensuring absolute stability, flatness, and alignment for such massive, high-speed belts in both length and width directions is a major challenge, demanding highly complex, sensitive, and powerful hydraulic or electromechanical control systems.
Special Surface Treatments: Ensure smooth mat release and panel surface quality.
5. Complex & Massive Heating Platen System:
Large Quantity: More pressure/temperature zones along the length (potentially over 100).
Oversized Dimensions: Individual platens must cover the entire effective width, posing significant manufacturing challenges.
Precise Zonal Temperature Control: Achieving highly uniform and independently controllable temperature profiles across such vast width and length is a core technical challenge.
High-Efficiency Heat Transfer Fluid System: Requires very high flow rates of thermal oil (or steam) circulation to ensure stable heat supply and transfer efficiency.
6. Ultra-Powerful Hydraulic System:
Enormous Total Closing Force: Required to generate tens of thousands of tonnes (even exceeding 100,000 tonnes) of total force to compress the mat across the full width.
Finer Zonal Pressure Control: More zones demand higher precision, independence, and faster response in controlling pressure for each zone to ensure absolute density uniformity across the super-wide panel. This is a severe test for hydraulic system design, component precision, and control systems.
7. State-of-the-Art Automation & Control System:
Must process vast amounts of sensor data (temperature, pressure, position, speed, thickness, etc.).
Enables coordinated control of the entire massive system (forming, press, sawing, cooling, sanding, etc.).
Employs advanced model predictive control (MPC) and AI algorithms to optimize process parameters (temperature/pressure profiles), ensuring ultimate product quality stability at super-scale production.
8. Matched Upstream & Downstream Equipment:
High-Capacity Fiber Preparation: Chipping, refining, drying, and blending systems must match the press capacity.
Super-Wide Forming Station: Capable of precise, uniform fiber distribution across the ultra-wide mat, especially critical for surface/fine and core/coarse layer structures.
Giant Finishing Equipment: E.g., super-wide flying saws, large cooling star coolers/racks, super-wide sanders (often 4-head or more), and massive stacking/packaging systems.
9. Plant & Infrastructure Requirements: Demands enormous factory space (height, span, length), very high electrical power supply (tens of Megawatts), large-capacity thermal oil heating systems, and corresponding logistics (raw material intake, finished product dispatch).
Shandong MingHung OSB&MDF Machinery Equipment is a China professional factory who specilize in manufacturering and offering Wood based panel machine, including OSB making machine, MDF making machine, and Chipboard /PB making machine.
Our factory with the advanced processing lathes, Mature production technology, and Professional engineers and technicians, and independent ability of reasearch and development, and quickly service, ensure that we have the ability to offer you the suitable and good woodworking machinery as different conditions and requires.
The machines we can offer includes: Wood chipper, Ring flaker, Strander, Wet silo, Drum dryer, Dry silo, Glue dosing and applying system /Glue blender, Mat forming, Continuous Multi-rolls pre-press, Multi opening hot press and Continuous press, Auto edge cutting machine line, Sanding machine line, kinds of related belt conveyor and so on.
Customize Your Line! Full-service solution from layout design to production optimization. Request a tailored proposal now.
Whatsapp: +8618769900191 +8615589105786 +8618954906501
Email: osbmdfmachinery@gmail.com
I. Introduction to Fiberboard
Fiberboard is an engineered wood panel primarily made from wood or other plant fibers. The manufacturing process involves fiber separation, resin application (typically urea-formaldehyde, phenol-formaldehyde, or MDI), drying, mat forming, followed by hot pressing under high temperature and pressure.
Main Types:
Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF): The most prevalent type, with a density range of 450-880 kg/m³. It offers excellent machinability, smooth surfaces, and easy finishing/lamination. Widely used in furniture, interior decoration, door cores, and packaging.
High Density Fiberboard (HDF): Density typically exceeds 800 kg/m³, often surpassing 1000 kg/m³. Characterized by high hardness, strength, and impact resistance. Commonly used as laminate flooring substrate, interior/exterior wall panels, and applications demanding high wear resistance or strength.
Low Density Fiberboard (LDF): Density below 450 kg/m³. Lightweight with good thermal insulation and sound absorption properties, but lower strength. Primarily used for interior partition walls and acoustic panels.
Core Production Process: For all types, hot pressing is the critical stage. This process cures the resin binder between fibers, transforming the loose fiber mat into a solid panel with defined thickness, density, and physical/mechanical properties.
II. Introduction to Continuous Presses
Prior to continuous presses, fiberboard was mainly produced using batch-type multi-opening hot presses. These were inefficient (requiring cyclic loading, pressing, curing, and unloading), energy-intensive, and offered relatively poorer surface quality and thickness control.
Advent of Continuous Presses: To overcome the limitations of batch presses, continuous presses emerged in the 1980s and rapidly became the mainstream equipment for MDF/HDF production. The Continuous Belt Press is the dominant type.
Continuous Belt Press Working Principle:
1. Forming: Dried and resinated fibers are spread uniformly via a forming station onto a moving bottom steel belt, creating a continuous fiber mat.
2. Infeed: The formed mat enters the press inlet.
3. Pressing & Heating:
The mat is sandwiched between two massive, endless loop heat-resistant steel belts.
Driven by rollers, the steel belts continuously transport the mat through a pressing zone consisting of multiple sets (dozens to over a hundred) of heating platens.
Heating platens are internally heated by high-temperature thermal oil (or steam), transferring heat to the mat via the steel belts.
Each platen is connected to independent hydraulic cylinders (or oil systems). These cylinders precisely control the pressure applied to the corresponding section of the mat according to a predefined pressure profile.
The press is divided into multiple pressure zones and temperature zones along its length. Highest pressure is applied at the inlet (to rapidly compress the mat to target thickness) with lower temperature (to prevent surface pre-cure). Intermediate zones have gradually reduced pressure and peak temperature (to ensure core resin curing). The outlet zone applies minimal pressure and reduced temperature (for panel setting and minimizing springback).
steel belt
hot pressboard
4. Curing & Setting: While moving continuously under precisely controlled temperature and pressure profiles, the resin binder cures, bonding the fibers into a solid, continuous panel with stable thickness and density.
5. Panel Exit & Cooling: The cured continuous panel exits the press, is cut to length (typically by synchronized flying saws), and then enters a cooling star cooler or rack for cooling and stacking.
cooling machine
sanding machine for fiberboard
Key Advantages of Continuous Belt Presses:
1.Extremely High Production Efficiency: Continuous operation eliminates cycle time, enabling significantly higher single-line capacity than multi-opening presses (capable of thousands of cubic meters per day).
2.Superior Product Quality:
Minimal thickness tolerance (±0.1mm or better achievable).
Highly uniform density distribution (lengthwise and widthwise).
Excellent surface flatness.
Consistent physical/mechanical properties.
3.Significantly Reduced Energy Consumption: Continuous production minimizes intermittent heat losses, lowering energy use per unit product.
4.High Automation: Easily integrates with full-process automated control and online quality monitoring.
5.Production Flexibility: Enables quick thickness changes (within range, no caul sheet changes needed) and relatively flexible recipe adjustments.
III. Common Specifications for "Wide" Continuous Presses
"Wide" Definition: Relative to earlier or standard-capacity lines, "wide" typically refers to continuous presses with an effective pressing width exceeding 2.5 meters (approx. 8 feet). This is the standard configuration for new, large-capacity mainstream lines.
Common Wide Width Range:
1.Mainstream Wide Width: 2.5m (8') - 3.0m (9.8') is the most common range.
E.g., 2.5m, 2.7m, 2.8m, 3.0m.
2.Corresponding Product Width: The press effective width determines the rough panel width. Typically, the rough panel width is 100-300mm less than the press width (for edge trimming).
3.Length: Continuous press length generally ranges from 30 meters to over 60 meters, depending on design capacity, product thickness range, and pressing requirements. Longer presses provide more dwell time under high pressure/temperature, beneficial for thicker boards or those requiring full cure (e.g., thick HDF or special resins).
4.Typical Capacity: A suitable continuous press line with an effective width of 2.5-3.0m can achieve an annual capacity typically between 300,000 m³ to 700,000 m³ (depending on specific design, product thickness, operational efficiency). Daily output can exceed 1000 m³.
5.Product Thickness Range: Modern wide continuous presses typically produce fiberboard from 2mm to 40mm (or thicker), covering thin to thick board requirements.
IV. Specification Characteristics of "Super-Wide" Fiberboard Continuous Presses
"Super-wide" denotes an even higher specification than "wide," representing the pinnacle of current continuous press technology, primarily used for building world-scale giant fiberboard production lines.
"Super-Wide" Definition: Typically refers to continuous presses with an effective pressing width exceeding 3.0m (9.8'), reaching 3.5m (11.5'), 4.0m (13.1'), or even larger.
Core Specification Characteristics:
1. Massive Effective Width: The most prominent feature. Common super-wide specifications include 3.5m, 3.8m, 4.0m, 4.2m, 4.8m (16'), etc. A 4.8m wide press can produce rough panels close to 4.6m wide.
2. Extra-Long Press Length: To match the massive width and achieve high capacity/thick board production, super-wide presses are often significantly longer, reaching 60 meters or even over 70 meters. This provides sufficient pressing and heating distance.
3. Very High Design Capacity: Super-wide presses are built for extreme economies of scale. Single-line annual design capacity is typically over 700,000 m³, often exceeding 1 million m³. Daily output can reach 3000 m³ or higher. One such line can match the output of multiple traditional factories.
4. Advanced Steel Belt Technology:
Massive Size & Thickness: Belts must match the press width and are over 100 meters long (forming the loop). Requirements for thickness, strength, stiffness, and thermal conductivity are extremely high.
Precision Tensioning & Tracking Systems: Ensuring absolute stability, flatness, and alignment for such massive, high-speed belts in both length and width directions is a major challenge, demanding highly complex, sensitive, and powerful hydraulic or electromechanical control systems.
Special Surface Treatments: Ensure smooth mat release and panel surface quality.
5. Complex & Massive Heating Platen System:
Large Quantity: More pressure/temperature zones along the length (potentially over 100).
Oversized Dimensions: Individual platens must cover the entire effective width, posing significant manufacturing challenges.
Precise Zonal Temperature Control: Achieving highly uniform and independently controllable temperature profiles across such vast width and length is a core technical challenge.
High-Efficiency Heat Transfer Fluid System: Requires very high flow rates of thermal oil (or steam) circulation to ensure stable heat supply and transfer efficiency.
6. Ultra-Powerful Hydraulic System:
Enormous Total Closing Force: Required to generate tens of thousands of tonnes (even exceeding 100,000 tonnes) of total force to compress the mat across the full width.
Finer Zonal Pressure Control: More zones demand higher precision, independence, and faster response in controlling pressure for each zone to ensure absolute density uniformity across the super-wide panel. This is a severe test for hydraulic system design, component precision, and control systems.
7. State-of-the-Art Automation & Control System:
Must process vast amounts of sensor data (temperature, pressure, position, speed, thickness, etc.).
Enables coordinated control of the entire massive system (forming, press, sawing, cooling, sanding, etc.).
Employs advanced model predictive control (MPC) and AI algorithms to optimize process parameters (temperature/pressure profiles), ensuring ultimate product quality stability at super-scale production.
8. Matched Upstream & Downstream Equipment:
High-Capacity Fiber Preparation: Chipping, refining, drying, and blending systems must match the press capacity.
Super-Wide Forming Station: Capable of precise, uniform fiber distribution across the ultra-wide mat, especially critical for surface/fine and core/coarse layer structures.
Giant Finishing Equipment: E.g., super-wide flying saws, large cooling star coolers/racks, super-wide sanders (often 4-head or more), and massive stacking/packaging systems.
9. Plant & Infrastructure Requirements: Demands enormous factory space (height, span, length), very high electrical power supply (tens of Megawatts), large-capacity thermal oil heating systems, and corresponding logistics (raw material intake, finished product dispatch).
Shandong MingHung OSB&MDF Machinery Equipment is a China professional factory who specilize in manufacturering and offering Wood based panel machine, including OSB making machine, MDF making machine, and Chipboard /PB making machine.
Our factory with the advanced processing lathes, Mature production technology, and Professional engineers and technicians, and independent ability of reasearch and development, and quickly service, ensure that we have the ability to offer you the suitable and good woodworking machinery as different conditions and requires.
The machines we can offer includes: Wood chipper, Ring flaker, Strander, Wet silo, Drum dryer, Dry silo, Glue dosing and applying system /Glue blender, Mat forming, Continuous Multi-rolls pre-press, Multi opening hot press and Continuous press, Auto edge cutting machine line, Sanding machine line, kinds of related belt conveyor and so on.
Customize Your Line! Full-service solution from layout design to production optimization. Request a tailored proposal now.
Whatsapp: +8618769900191 +8615589105786 +8618954906501
Email: osbmdfmachinery@gmail.com
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