COMPANY HEADQUARTERS IN St. Pölten - AUSTRIA

The company headquarters and the complete commercial division are based in St. Pölten, Austria. In addition to office space and conference rooms, storage space is also available here.

PRODUCTION IN WAIDHOFEN / THAYA – AUSTRIA

Production is carried out in Waidhofen/Thaya where the entire top floor of the building, covering a surface area of approx. 1400 m2, is used. In the building’s basement, the small blanks needed for the special Matador machines are produced using saws, planers and grinders. The raw materials are beech trunks that are stored for several years in advance and then cut into poles.

MACHINE FOR CLASSIC BLOCKS

The material loading of the wooden blanks is carried out via the two-sided rear upward projecting double magazine. In the longitudinal direction of the machine, the poles pass through different work stations, one after another. In the first work step, the blanks are cut to the desired pre-programmed length and then immediately taken to the drilling stations. In the next step, the horizontal holes are drilled simultaneously from two sides, and at the next station the vertical holes are drilled in the same way. Before the end product is ejected, the holes on the front face are drilled.

MACHINE FOR CLASSIC BRACES, PLATES AND BOARDS

This machine carries out procedures on two sides – the one side produces plates and the other side produces braces and boards. The blank is first cut by the saw components into the desired and set lengths. Then the vertical drilling begins, which is carried out in parallel from the top and bottom. Finally, the completed products are ejected on the conveyor belts. Both machine sides are controlled by separate electronics and can therefore produce parts at the same time.

MACHINE FOR CLASSIC 25 - HOLE – PLATES

The plates blanks are placed into the upward projecting green magazine in bundles. The bottom row is automatically carried in a longitudinal position to the machine’s saw component, where it is cut. The panel blank created in this way is then automatically carried along to the drilling head. All 25 drill holes are drilled in one go. A special fixture prevents the wood from tearing when the drill bit is released. The drilling procedure is carried out from bottom to top. The completed panels are automatically ejected from a chut e.

MACHINE FOR 1st BLOCKS AND 1st BOARDS

The large machines are unable to produce the 1st blocks and 1st boards as they would become wedged on the tracks. For this reason, a machine has been developed that cuts out a 1st on both the left and right sides from 3rd logs and 3rd slats. This way, a 3rd log is turned into two 1st logs. The left-over centrepiece is also used as a product, meaning that there is almost no “waste”.

Operating mode:
The orange pot is filled with a larger number of 3rd parts. These are separated on the round shaking plate and placed in the cutting part piece by piece. There, the 1st parts are cut out. The parts are automatically sorted into the different containers after cutting via the chutes. Everything is carried out in a fully-automated way via a corresponding electronic control.

MACHINE FOR PINS AND AXLES

The milling machine is automatically fed wooden blanks from a magazine. First, semi-circular rods are cut out from the top of the blank (depending on the rod diameter 5 to 8 in parallel). In the next step, longitudinal cuts are made in all the semi-circles cut out at the top, which are necessary for the rods to be resilient. In the last step, the semi-circle is also cut from the bottom. The finished pin blanks with a length of approx. 80 cm drop out individually at the end of the rod cutting machine. Axles are produced in exactly the same way, apart from that the longitudinal cuts for the resilience are not needed for the axles.

With the rod cutting machine that is pictured separately, the pin or axle blanks that are tied together in bundles are cut to the necessary lengths using manual stops. The product created at this stage must later still be deburred and painted.

MACHINE FOR DRILLING CLASSIC WHEELS

On standard machines, the classic wheels can only be manufactured with a centre hole. The machines pictured can drill all other holes. The wheel blanks are placed into the round shaking conveyor, from where they are automatically and individually fed along to the drilling unit. After the drilling procedure, the completed wheels are ejected.

MACHINE FOR CLAMPING SLEEVES

This machine, which is more than 60 years old, was already on display in a museum until 1996. Since production requests across Europe went unanswered, the machine was recommissioned and has been operating without any problems ever since. The material addition is carried out in the form of long metal strip rolls, which are cut by the machine in a fully-automated way, pressed into the correct end shape and then counted. The machine was built shortly after World War 2 – some elements (typical for that era) are made from old iron parts taken from destroyed bridges etc.

KI MACHINE

The wooden blanks are placed in bundles in the two-sided upwards-projecting magazines. In this machine, the parts are cut to the desired lengths, the holes are drilled on all sides, and there is the option of angle cutting the parts as well as fining down all of the front face corners, and these steps are all carried out one after another in corresponding individual work stations. The complete production procedure is carried out electronically in a fully - automated way.

SANDING DRUMS

Some wooden parts such as rods and axes must be additionally sanded after being cut in order to remove the burs from the edges. This is carried out in large wooden drums. For this, a large number of parts are tipped into the round containers, which then turn for a certain amount of time. The parts rub together and the thin protruding burrs are then sanded down. Depending on the specific requirements, additives can be added to the products in the drum in order to optimise the deburring process.

MACHINES FOR PAINTING PINS

A large number of the deburred pins are placed into the drum. When the drum is running (i.e. when the pins are moving) the paint is sprayed into the middle axis of the drum with a move able arm. In this way, the pins are prevented from sticking together. The colours were developed in conjunction with a famous Austrian colour manufacturer specially for Matador, and they naturally meet all safety requirements.

MACHINE FOR IRON AXLES

Allows an iron axles to be manufactured with a diameter of up to 8 mm. In addition, the machine also offers the opportunity of cutting slots into the axles.

MACHINE FOR COUNTING AND SORTING SMALL PARTS

A new sorting line has been used since 2003. The two-level electronically controlled line counts all small parts in a fully automated way into the construction set according to the desired parts list. The Ki rods are counted on the bottom level and the classic parts are counted in the upper level (rods and other small parts). Four different parts can be counted simultaneously on the lower level. On the top level, 10 different parts can currently be counted independently of the lower level. The system capacity can be expanded further.

CONSIGNMENT OF GOODS

The commissioning of the small supply quantities is carried out via conveyor lines. At the end, the individual packets (up to ca. 30kg) are bound with a strapping machine. Larger supply quantities are loaded onto pallets or into containers.