Comec Group features at ‘Efficiency-Boost-Show’ Hausmesse with high-precision solutions

 Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The woodworking and furniture industry increasingly automates processes for cost-cutting, worker shortages, and custom product demands, with CNC machining leading precision advancements. The critical importance of this technology was the central theme of the ‘Efficiency-Boost-Show’ Hausmesse, hosted by Wehrmann Maschinen—a key dealer for the Italian Comec Group—from November 25 to 27, 2025. Held at their facility in Barntrup, Germany, the annual event offered manufacturers three days of intensive demonstrations, technical exchanges, and in-depth discussions focused on leveraging innovation to boost productivity and maintain competitive quality standards.

The core of the exhibition was a live showcase of Comec Group’s specialised CNC solutions, demonstrating the level of precision and production flexibility now attainable in industrial woodworking. Two machines, in particular, highlighted the trend towards multi-axis, dedicated, high-performance machinery:

1. COMEC MD TOP XL: The High-Flexibility Workhorse

The MD TOP XL is engineered as a heavy-duty, highly flexible 3- or 4-axis NC working center designed for complex components and long-shaped elements. Its standout features emphasise continuous, high-speed operation:

• Tandem working fields: The machine boasts two independent working fields, allowing for tandem loading and unloading. This means an operator can set up a new component on one field while the machine is actively processing a piece on the other, ensuring continuous operation, maximising output, and dramatically reducing non-productive downtime.
• Multi-spindle column: The movable multi-spindle column is a crucial feature, enabling the machine to perform cutting, milling, and drilling operations across all faces of the component in a single positioning. This eliminates the need for manual flipping or multiple tool changes for different operations, thereby guaranteeing speed, precision, and guaranteed repeatability across an element’s length capacity of up to 3400 mm.
• Targeted industries: The MD TOP XL finds its ideal application in sectors requiring high-volume processing of long furniture components, including garden furniture, sofa frames, beds, cots, and general cabinetry components.

2. COMEC MD JAMB 11X: Precision for Profiles

The MD JAMB 11X is a highly specialised, advanced 11-axis NC working center, often referred to as “The door jamb Machine.” It represents the pinnacle of automation for the joinery sector, specifically dedicated to the production of door and window frames and other complex profiles:

• Dedicated 11-axis control: Featuring three independent multi-spindle operating heads, the 11-axis control system allows for intricate, simultaneous cutting, milling, and drilling operations on all faces of long, shaped elements up to 3200 mm, all within a single clamping process.
• Elimination of tool changes: Like the MD TOP XL, the multi-spindle units dramatically increase performance by removing the need for conventional tool changes, ensuring high productivity and multi-tasking operations.
• Automatic clamping and programming: Specialised workbenches ensure the automatic and precise clamping of even complex or fully assembled door frames. This is supported by powerful parametric 3D programming software that simplifies the translation of customised designs into machine instructions, offering full automation of set-up and regulation.

The overarching message from the three-day event was that automation and digitalisation are no longer optional expenditures but foundational requirements for maintaining a competitive edge in the global wood products market.

The technology demonstrated by Wehrmann Maschinen and Comec Group aligns perfectly with the current trends in the woodworking machinery sector, particularly in Germany, a global leader in high-end machine manufacturing:

• Focus on consistency and quality: CNC technology, with its use of digital instructions (G-code), eliminates human error and ensures flawless, microscopic accuracy. This level of consistency is non-negotiable for large-scale production and custom orders, where perfect component fit drastically reduces assembly time and material waste.
• Meeting customisation demands: As consumer demand shifts toward personalized furniture and architectural millwork, the versatility of machines like the MD TOP XL and MD JAMB 11X allows manufacturers to handle customisation at scale. Powerful CAD/CAM software integration means intricate plans can be seamlessly uploaded, translating into precise physical products with minimal disruption to the production flow.
• Driving sector recovery: The German woodworking machinery sector, after facing challenges in the preceding years, is expected to see stabilisation and a recovery in order intake, driven precisely by this need for advanced automation. Manufacturers who invest now in solutions like the Comec CNC centers are best positioned to capitalise on the forecast growth in the furniture and wood construction markets in 2026 and beyond.

The evolution of these machining centers underscores a broader industry pivot toward intelligent, dedicated solutions. By providing a work center for highly flexible tasks (MD TOP XL) and a machine for a specific high-demand product (MD JAMB 11X), Comec Group and Wehrmann Maschinen are demonstrating how manufacturers can achieve a dual goal: mass efficiency alongside bespoke flexibility.

This commitment to engineering excellence, combining high-speed production with unparalleled accuracy, is what will continue to solidify Germany’s and Europe’s position as a global hub for woodworking technology, empowering manufacturers to reduce costs, enhance quality, and secure their future in an increasingly digital and automated world.

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Tags: CNC woodworking, Comec Group, Door and Window Frame Production, furniture manufacturing technology, Wehrmann Maschinen, woodworking automation