To cover the terrace, garden paths or the space around the pool, a terrace board is increasingly being used. This building material is made from a mixture of plastic, wood flour and other components. Due to its wide scope, quick installation, durability and low cost of production, the manufacture of a terrace board is a good business idea.
The main equipment for the production of terrace boards
If you plan to make a terrace board from sawdust and shavings, you will need a complete set of necessary equipment, including machines for the manufacture of raw materials.
List of main equipment at certain stages of production:
- Getting wood flour. On this section of production, you will need a sawdust and shavings crusher, a mill, as well as a dryer of finished raw materials.
- Production of granules KDP. Here you can not do without a special mixer, as well as without a line that performs granulation.
- In addition, the basic equipment for the production of terrace boards is needed. Such equipment includes a grinder, a machine for manufacturing a WPC profile and embossing, as well as a cleaning machine.
Production of terrace boards from ready-made granules KDP
If you want the production of terrace boards to be as cheap as possible, then you need to purchase all of the above equipment. However, with a low initial capital, KDP granules can be used, thus reducing the initial cost of purchasing equipment.
Finished WPC granules are widely represented on the market, so when using them as raw materials, you can halve the cost of purchasing equipment, eliminating the need to purchase equipment to produce wood flour and granular raw materials.
In addition, when releasing economy-class material, only an extrusion line for the production of terrace boards will be required, and the rest of the equipment can be purchased gradually. Although the full production cycle is the most profitable, at the initial stage, the manufacture of terrace boards from finished granules is a good start to the business.
The choice of equipment for the preparation of raw materials
The main equipment for the preparation of raw materials are crushing plants. They are used to grind chips into wood flour, as well as for the recycling of production waste. If you want to save money, then you can buy domestic plants, which in quality are practically not inferior to foreign counterparts.
Drying plants - equipment for the production of terrace boards, which is used to dry wood waste and finished wood flour. The choice of equipment depends on the volumes that you plan to produce daily.
Mixers are used to mix wood flour and special polymer additives. This process must be performed before the finished mixture gets into the granulator.
The granulator is a machine with which the feedstock is pelletized. In its quality, in this case, wood flour, polymers, as well as various modifiers are used. The quality of a terrace board directly depends on the operation of this equipment.
Extrusion equipment
The process of extrusion of raw materials can be performed on a one-step and two-step line.
Equipment for the production of terrace boards, of which one-step lines are composed, are mechanisms supplying raw materials, a cooling module, a pulling and calibrating mechanism, two extruders and so on. In this case, one extruder is responsible for mixing the feedstock and its heating, and the second for squeezing through the die. In this case, wood flour, polymers and special additives are used for the production of terrace boards.
In this case, two-step lines consist of equipment that performs the supply of raw materials, calibration, cooling, as well as a pulling mechanism and an extruder. In this case, pellets are used as starting material.
Deck finishing equipment
The cutter for the manufacture of terrace boards refers to equipment for cutting finished material. The choice of equipment depends on the estimated volumes of production, design features, as well as financial capabilities.
A grinding machine is used to give the terrace board the roughness and dullness that are inherent in natural materials.
If it is necessary to produce more expensive building materials, a stamping machine is used, which is used to apply a relief to the surface of the terrace board that will imitate a natural massif.
A decking brushing machine is used to create texture scratches and roughness on the surface of the material. In addition, the machine can be used to give the material the effect of antiquity.
