High standards of design and appearance coupled with excellent product quality play a major role in modern furniture manufacturing. With the RAUKANTEX range, the REHAU Furniture Solutions division provides professionals in the furniture industry with versatile components that meet all aesthetic and functional requirements, achieving a perfect match between edgeband and panel. The process is simple regardless of the production method used, whether using classic primer edgebands or zero-joint edgebands. The result is a finished components with an exceptional design.
RAUKANTEX product family: With more than 2,000 decors in over 200,000 variants, RAUKANTEX edgebands by REHAU offer the right solution for every project which can be harmoniously combined with the design of the leading panel manufacturers’ collections. Carpenters and furniture manufacturers can also choose among different types of edgeband solutions: from the classic version with primer, RAUKANTEX pure, to the seamless versions, RAUKANTEX plus and RAUKANTEX pro, for superior results.
RAUKANTEX pure is the classic primer edgeband with a visible joint, in which the adhesive is melted before it is applied to the panel or edgeband. This high-quality solution is available in all sizes and decors.
Featuring a TPU functional layer, RAUKANTEX plus is the new generation edgeband that make it simple to start processing edgebands with zero adhesive. 100% adhesive-free and UV-resistant, this edgeband offers an excellent moisture resistance and allows a seamless visual effect thanks to the polymer-based, colour-matched functional layer.
With a 100% polymer functional layer, RAUKANTEX pro edgeband is ideal for getting seamless components with a permanent zero-joint effect. Completely glue-free, it offers a complete functional and decorative layer colour match, representing the absolute tested industrial quality market standard. Moreover, the continuous formulas optimisation allows meeting special applications demands and increasing higher requirements on processing quality.
The superior aesthetic and functional results offered by RAUKANTEX plus and RAUKANTEX pro edgeband solutions can be flexibly achieved by using three processing technologies. REHAU’s zero-joint edgebands are compatible with laser technology, widely used in many industrial applications thanks to its high efficiency, with Hot Air, a cost-effective technology mostly favoured by commercial customers and carpenters, and with NIR (Near Infrared Radiation) technology, in which the quick and precise thermal energy transfer is ideal for activating RAUKANTEX edgebands functional layer.
Regardless of the adopted solution, professionals in the furniture industry can always rely on more than 50 years of technical know-how that makes REHAU the edgebands specialist.
