They really do exist: prime examples of insurance companies providing straightforward and pragmatic help when it's needed most. On July 3, 2024, help was certainly needed: the water in Jens Hübl's workshop stood exactly 1.08 m high. In this case, however, the story doesn't continue with endless, nerve-racking bureaucracy bringing the woodworking shop to a standstill for a long time. Quite the opposite: Jens Hübl's insurance company delivered on its policy's promise and helped the master joiner immediately – simply and without red tape. The current replacement value was reimbursed for all his machinery.
For his replacement investments, Hübl once again chose machines from his long-standing technology partner, the Felder Group: a Mayer horizontal beam saw, a sliding table saw, a wide-belt sander, a combination planer-thicknesser, an edgebander, and an RL 350 dust extraction system. He also replaced his Biesse CNC with a new Rover A.
A Flexible All-Rounder
Jens Hübl, who has been self-employed since 2001 and handles everything himself from planning and production to installation, primarily works with panel materials. However, his 250 m² workshop is also fully equipped for solid wood and veneer processing, including surface finishing.
Extensive Edge Processing in a Small Space
Short travel paths: After sizing on the Mayer – for which Jens Hübl feeds parts list data from his Pytha CAD program into the Ardis cutting optimization software – it's just a few meters to the Format4 Tempora F600 edgebander. It is very compact yet offers a great deal of operating comfort and precision. Most machine parameters can be selected via the intuitive smart-touch screen. The master joiner relies on an additional interchangeable glue pot with a tool-free quick-change system. Depending on the panel and edge material, he works with transparent or white EVA hot-melt adhesive. The Tempora is superbly equipped and offers complete edge processing. Some examples include the pre-milling unit, panel edge pre-heating, scraping unit, release agent, buffing unit, nesting package, and a multi-function trimming unit for flush, radius, and chamfer trimming of thin edges. It can process edge thicknesses from 0.4 to 6 mm on panel thicknesses from 8 to 60 mm.
The smart-touch control unit allows for quick and easy selection of units and precise fine adjustment of the motorized, position-controlled units (to an accuracy of 1/100 mm) directly from the control panel.
