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Wood-Mizer is gearing up to present its latest sawmills and woodworking machines at LIGNA to many customers, including large and medium sawmills, small businesses, farmers, artisans, and hobbyists. The pandemic years without exhibitions have been a time of intense work for Wood-Mizer's R&D group, resulting in a range of new machines, features, and solutions to improve overall usability and increase wood processing efficiency. Wood-Mizer will present these innovations during Europe's largest wood industry trade show, LIGNA, from 15 to 19 May in Hannover, Germany.

In the open area FG (stand K44), Wood-Mizer will exhibit the LX and LT sawmill series in action and a full line of EG edgers, starting with the small EG100 and the popular EG300 edger/multirip. A new WIDE head option to cut large-diameter logs will be demonstrated on the LT20 WIDE and LT15 WIDE sawmills. Europe's most popular LT15 sawmill with a segmented bed will be displayed in a mobile version.

Two LT15 sawmills will run at LIGNA, including one sawmill with a brand-new innovation that the sawmilling industry has never seen before! The smallest Wood-Mizer LX50 sawmill, designed for homeowners and hobbyists, will be displayed in two versions. In addition, there will be new machines for processing slabs – the LX250 wide slab sawmill capable of cutting massive slabs up to 138 cm wide, and the MB200 SlabMizer that efficiently surfaces and flattens slabs up to 142 cm wide with minimal labor. The famous LT40 and LT70 sawmills in WIDE versions will also be displayed in the Wood-Mizer area.

Responding to the needs of high-performance wood processors, Wood-Mizer will present two types of industrial sawmilling lines. The first line is designed to process a large timber volume and is based on the well-known WB2000 industrial sawmill, using a band blade of 50-75mm width. At LIGNA, the WB2000 sawmill will be equipped with a new state-of-the-art control station, log loading, and material transporting system, and at the end of the line, exhibiting for the first time, the MR200, an industrial double arbor multirip with up to 12 circular blades at each shaft, capable of sawing timber up to 200 mm thick.

The second Wood-Mizer industrial sawmilling line at LIGNA is designed to process logs into pallet boards and other timber. The machines in that line are the TVS HEAVY DUTY twin vertical saw with a new control station, a log loading deck, material sorting equipment, the industrial HR700 horizontal two-head resaw, and the powerful EG800 edger for slab processing. Both Wood-Mizer industrial lines are complete solutions with a high level of mechanization, automation, and synchronized operation of machines and conveyors, ensuring the lines' smooth operation. At a separate area dedicated to industrial exhibitors (Hall 25, stand E06) Wood-Mizer will also showcase its newest, most advanced heavy-duty solution for the sawmilling industry – the EA3000 Transverse Edger, a part of Wood-Mizer Systems. It will be an outstanding opportunity for the visitors to research the topic of custom-designed sawmilling lines. Wood-Mizer's booth in Hall 13 (stand E08) will present the Woodworking series of compact and versatile machines for joiners and carpenters. In addition to the well-known planers, moulders, and jointers/thicknessers, such as the MP160, MP180, MP200, MP220, and MP360, new woodworking machines, including the four-sided MP280 planer/moulder and the MS750 panel saw will be demonstrated. In addition, Wood-Mizer will be exhibiting for the first time at LIGNA the CNC5003 machine for the automated processing of wood, plastics, composites, and light alloys.

Wood-Mizer, founded in 1982 in the USA, is the world's leading manufacturer of sawmills and woodworking machines and tools.