Development The foundation of Homag AG in the year 1960 had its beginnings in the village smithy run by Eugen Hornberger and the consultancy firm of Gerhard Schuler. While their initial efforts were directed towards simple transport devices and processing equipment, they delivered the first edge banding machine only two years later, making the beginning of what was to be a rapid upward development.
Homag's progress over the following years was marked out by innovative technology and an offensive market strategy. The first foreign subsidiary was soon followed by additional company acquisitions to selectively extend the company's performance range - and so strengthen its market position. In the eighties, the company stepped up its integration of producing companies: Homag the system supplier was trimming its sails to assume world market leadership. As one of a whole string of pioneering developments, Homag is now underpinning its leading role with the world's first robot-controlled assembly cell. Added to this is the fact that the average age of the company's main earning developments today is less than three years.
Innovative Highlights
1962 World's first edge banding machine using the hot-cold technique
1967 First combined sizing and edge banding machine
1974 First double-end tenoner with NC axes and punch tape control
1977 Softforming with PVAc
1980 Quickmelt process for edge banding of shaped components
1982 First plant with production control and fully automatic resetting using identity numbers
1987 World's first throughfeed sizing machine for sizing and edge processing
1989 First stationary processing centre with edge processing
1991 Homatic system as integrated concept with HMI, CNC and PLC
1997Power line - New machine concept for high-performance systems based on mechatronics
2001Power line 1 - First Power line machine with batch size one
2002complete line
2003 Edge improvement
2004 Honeycomb panel production
2005print line edge printing using the inkjet process
