Birka

BIRKA brings the best technology transfer to Latin America from various parts of the world: New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Holland, Sweden, USA, China, and Brazil. Each company represented is a world leader in its respective niche. In the mass timber industry glued we work with: Certified structural polyurethane adhesives for mass timber, worldwide the best assembly/presstime ratio. Machines to produce mass timber (CLT, glulam, finger joint) such as presses for curved and straight glulam beams, finger joining machines, CLT presses, large planers, various glue application machines, automation for a whole factory. Moisture membranes for mass timber building protection. Manual timber graders and inline graders for measuring the structural resistance of structural wood. Individually designed robotic arm systems on tracks for machining very large structural elements. Consulting on building new mass timber production lines. Voluntary audits and process improvement for mass timber lines. Delamination testing for mass timber customers and producers. Soon: sales of structurally graded wood for mass timber in Latam. For the panel industry we deal with: Non-contact laser technology for ultra precise and stable inline thickness measurement for MDF, MDP, OSB, plywood, gypsum and fibre-cement boards. The same technology is employed for sawmills green and dry areas. Ultra fast, high definition smart cameras for artificial vision, for surface defect detection and grading, as well as for dimensional measurements of all sorts (squareness, dimensions, thickness, crookedness), at up to 25.000 pictures/second. Soon: lignin-based resins for substitution of phenolic-formaldehyde resin , for plywood production, for a more sustainable, recyclable, healthier panel industry.