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Name of Company: Smart Edge (Pty) Limited

Name of Project: Continuous Molded Edge Boards

Project Description:

From 1998 to 2001, a local businessman and manufacturer of office equipment developed and patented a process for in-situ moulding of flat board edges. The rights to use the patent in all countries – except South Africa and Australia – were sold to a German manufacturer.

Smart Edge SA (Pty) Limited was established in June 2001 with the purpose of developing machinery and manufacturing a variety of profile and flat bed edged board components for the kitchen, office and domestic furniture industries. Smart Edge acquired the rights to use the patent in South Africa and Australia.

The patented process consists of extruding edging onto the edge of the board while moving the board past the head of the extrusion nozzle or by moving the extrusion nozzle along the board’s edge. Smart Edge designed and developed machinery where the extrusion nozzle as well as the finishing equipment is stationary and the board is moved past these. Further development included automation as well as development of improved bonding liquids.

To be able to coat boards with uneven edges, the boards are fixed and the coating and finishing heads are moved along the edges of the stationery board at slower speeds than straight edge coatings.