Profile Wrappers and certain Foilers wrap material around a moulded part. The Foiler will use a foil material or a hot stamped material that uncoils from a roll and lays exactly what is required onto the part just like a heat transfer press. The foiler will use this same application of transfer for flat panel laminating, edge laminating (as in edgebanding) or to wrap profiles using variations of this type of machine.
In profile wrapping there is no transfer of material, there is an actual laminating process of one material using cold glue, hot glue, PUR of pre glued material to another.
The material being applied or laminated can be veneer, vinyl, paper, laminate to a preformed substrate, be it solid wood moulding, an MDF moulding or extruded plastic or aluminum.
The process would be similar to what is discussed below. The substrate would be fed through this long narrow machine, the material that will be laminated will go through a process of getting glue applied, be it hot, cold or whatever similar to a glue spreader. The glued laminate and the substrate will come together and through a process of numerous rollers all set at different angles to conform to the contour of the substrate will apply the laminate onto the substrate similar to a pinch roller.
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