Planer mill with new Goldeneye 900 transverse scanner

"This projects was a great experience for us due to the challenges that we were able to solve successfully. We are very proud to work with Microtec, because we feel that our requests are taken seriously", states Roy Dias, Operation Manager at CHH in New Zealand.

Country: New Zealand

N.1 transverse quality scanner and sorter for the planer mill 

CHH installed brand new Goldeneye 900 in transversal feeding in Whangarei, New Zealand. The leading manufacturer of wood-based building products integrated a Goldeneye 900 Multi-Sensor Transverse Quality Scanner in its Whangarei planer mill to grade, classify and sort radiate pine for highest quality requirements.

After dry kiln and planing, a Goldeneye 900 is installed as a 4-side scanner, making a full 360° 3D board profile using colors, shadow/light, polarized scatter, 3D laser dimension scanning as well as X-ray. The seamless integration of color and laser scanners into one multi-sensor system delivers a gapless view on the surface of lumber. A Microtec moisture meter M3 Scan further increases value recovery by automatically sorting lumber according to its moisture content. A Viscan Plus determines the modulus of elasticity.

New Zealand

First scanner in transversal feeding in New Zealand

At the planer mill in Whangarei the Goldeneye 900 is the first scanner of new generation worldwide and the first in New Zealand. The external devices that communicate with the scanner are Viscan Plus for determination of the modulus of elasticity and M3 Scan to control the moisture content. 

Full quality grading

The scanner detects and localizes all types of knots as well as cracks, discoloration, pitch pockets, wanes, curvature and other dimensional defects. This allows customers to automate, streamline and optimize all further production steps. The value optimization software implements customer specific grading, trimming and sorting rules. 

Providing the most added value to the final product

The Goldeneye 900 reduces costs in planning, installing, commissioning and servicing. Parameters and grading rules can be refined together with our engineering teams in order to get the most out of production. The main goal of all Microtec solutions is to increase the added value in every production step.