With the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union 2014/C 259/1 on 8.8.2014 the new harmonized standard EN 14080:2013 for glued laminated timber and glued solid timber is applicable with Microtec machine grading systems.
Already in March 2014 Microtec got the approval for optimized machine settings, which are available for immediate use:
Glued laminated timber
Boards for glulam are graded according to the new standard in T-classes. The approved machine settings apply to the following Microtec grading systems:
For the production of glued laminated timber it is still allowed to use L-classes (see news from 11.09.2013) and C-classes. The use of C-classes is recommended in the following cases for glulam production:
Glued solid timber
With the introduction of this new standard EN 14080:2013 for the first time it possible to mark glued solid timber (Duo/Trio/Quattro) with the CE mark. For glued solid timber the lamellas are graded according to the new standard in C-classes.
Official Journal of the European Union
ITT-107-08-11_ViSCAN_T-classes
ITT-108-22-08_ViSCAN-COMPACT_T-classes
ITT-109-20-09_ViSCAN-PLUS_T-classes
ITT-111-05-09_GOLDENEYE-702_T-classes
ITT-112-10-09_GOLDENEYE-706_T-classes