PLC Controlled Plywood Drying Solution

• Customization: Available
• After-sales Service: 1 Year
• Warranty: 1 Year
• Model NO.: MH-MD
• Type: Veneer Dryer Machine
• Name: Veneer Dryer Machine
• Automatic: Automatic
• Certification: CE, ISO
• Heating Medium: Oil/Steam
• Veneer Thickness: 1-3mm
• Original Veneer Humidity: 60%
• Dryed Veneer Humidity: 5-10%
• Transport Package: Plastic Film Wrapping
• Trademark: MINGHUNG
• Origin: China
• HS Code: 841939
• Production Capacity: 800sets/Year
• Package Size: 3200.00cm * 750.00cm * 470.00cm
• Package Gross Weight: 95000.000kg

Product Description

PLC Controlled Plywood Drying Solution

Our "PLC Controlled Plywood Drying Solution" is a core system designed specifically to enhance the intelligence and precision of plywood production. Centered around an advanced Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and integrated with high-precision sensors and a user-friendly touchscreen interface, this solution achieves fully automated and precise control over temperature, humidity, air velocity, and time within the drying kiln.

 

The system allows for the pre-setting and storage of optimized drying schedules tailored to different wood species (e.g., poplar, eucalyptus), veneer thicknesses, and target moisture content levels, enabling "one-touch" start operation. This not only completely eliminates the inconsistencies associated with manual operation in traditional drying processes, ensuring uniform drying quality batch after batch, but also effectively prevents defects such as cracking and warping, significantly increasing the yield of high-grade veneer.

The PLC-controlled plywood veneer dryer is a core piece of equipment in the modern wood processing industry for achieving efficient, precise, and automated drying. It is not merely a combination of a "drying kiln + controller," but an intelligent system that deeply integrates mechanical, thermal, and information technologies.

Advantages

   Superior & Consistent Quality: Eliminates human error, ensuring uniform drying results for every batch and significantly reducing defects like cracking, warping, and discoloration. This dramatically increases the yield of Grade-A veneer and improves subsequent gluing quality.

   High Efficiency & Energy Savings: The PLC intelligently coordinates heating, dehumidification, and fan operation—for example, automatically switching to energy-saving modes at specific stages or calculating heat recovery. This typically results in 15%-30% lower overall energy consumption compared to manual control.

   User-Friendly & Intelligent Operation: Operators simply select or call up the corresponding drying program via a color touchscreen HMI and initiate the process with "one-touch start." The system completes the entire cycle automatically, reducing dependence on highly skilled workers.

   Data Traceability: The system can fully record and store historical data for each drying cycle (temperature/humidity curves, alarm logs, etc.), providing data support for quality traceability and process optimization.

Core Components

   Hardware Structure: Includes an insulated and sealed kiln body, an efficient hot air circulation system (fans, ducts), a heating unit (gas-fired, steam, heat pump, etc.), and a ventilation/dehumidification system.

   PLC Control Center: responsible for logic operations, command output, and communication.

   Sensor Network: Comprises high-temperature-resistant platinum RTD temperature sensors, dry/wet-bulb humidity sensing devices, air pressure sensors, and optional online moisture content detectors.

   Human-Machine Interface: A large touchscreen for parameter setting, program selection, process monitoring (real-time drying curve display), fault alarming, and historical data review.

   Actuators: Such as proportional modulating burners, electric/pneumatic dampers, and variable frequency drives for fans, which receive and execute PLC commands with precision.

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Technical Specifications

Heating Sections	9
Heating Motors	11kw/Per
Cooling Sections	1
Cooling Motors	4kw/Per
Drying capacity	55-60m³/20h
Weight	100 Ton
Specification	32000 * 7500 * 4700mm

Machine display

Applications

This equipment is a crucial investment for plywood manufacturers aiming to enhance quality, boost efficiency, reduce costs, and achieve process control. It is suitable for new drying production lines and is also commonly used for the automated upgrade and retrofit of traditional drying kilns. It represents a flagship technology driving the plywood industry from "experience-driven" to "data-and-intelligence-driven" production.

Company Profile

 Shandong MINGHUNG Wood Based Panel Machinery Co.,Ltd 

The machinery we produce includes peeling machines, chipping machines, rotary cutting machines, drying machines, gluing mixers, laying machines, pre-pressing machines, hot pressing machines, cooling machines, longitudinal and transverse sawing machines, sanding machines, as well as auxiliary machinery such as automatic feeding and discharging systems and lifting platforms.