Narrow-Panel Straight Edge Bander
Fifty millimetres is where a bander is judged: the FM708JA holds a strip that narrow under two pressing groups, so the band sits flat instead of riding up at the trim head.

Overview
- Sixteen numbered cells: display screen, separating agent, pre-milling, heat lamp 1, glue applicator, pressing group 1, heat lamp 2, glue applicator, pressing group 2, head-and-tail trimming, rough and fine trimming, head tracking, scraping, precise flat scraping, cleaning and double polishing.
- Two heat lamps and two glue applicators, each applicator followed by its own pressing group, so a second pass over the band is heated and pressed rather than pressed cold.
- Panels from 50 mm wide and 9 to 60 mm thick, band 0.4 to 3 mm thick and 12 to 65 mm wide: the geometry of drawer fronts, shelf strips and narrow door stiles.
- 16 to 23 m/min on an 8,700 mm frame, 850 mm wide and 1,700 mm high, with 21.5 kW installed.
- Head tracking sits ahead of the scraping heads, so the band turns the corner at the ends instead of being cut square across it.
- Precise flat scraping takes the surplus hot-melt off the panel face before two polishing units finish the joint.
- The pressure beam lifts electrically, and the recipe is held on the display screen rather than on a row of dials.
Station sequence
Station 01 is the display screen; sixteen numbered cells run from separating agent to double polishing.
Technical data
| Model | FM708JA |
| Feed rate | 16 – 23 m/min |
| Panel width | ≥ 50 mm |
| Panel thickness | 9 – 60 mm |
| Edge band thickness | 0.4 – 3 mm |
| Edge band width | 12 – 65 mm |
| Pressure beam | Electric lift |
| Processing stations | 16 |
| Control screen | Display screen |
| Input voltage | 380 V |
| Air pressure | 0.7 MPa |
| Total power | 21.5 kW |
| Machine size (L × W × H) | 8700 × 850 × 1700 mm |
Values from the FM708JA technical data sheet in the 2026 configuration list.
What the machine is built to do
- Built around a 50 mm stripThe bed and the beam are sized for a narrow panel: a strip that narrow needs to be held across its full width, which is the difference between a flat band and one that lifts at the trimmer.
- Two lamps, two pressesHeat, glue, press, heat, glue, press: each glue applicator has its own lamp and its own pressing group, so the second application is not run at the setting of the first.
- 9 to 60 mm thickness in one beam settingThe electric beam lift covers thin drawer fronts and 60 mm door blanks without a mechanical reset between batches.
- Head tracking before scrapingThe ends are tracked first, so the corner radius is cut round and the scraping heads then clean the band behind it in the same pass.
- Double polishingTwo sets of cotton wheels finish the edge, for a higher sheen than a single head gives on a narrow strip.
- 8.7 m frameShort enough for a small bay, with all sixteen cells present: nothing is dropped to save length.
Edge samples

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Put FM708JA against your panel.
Send the thickness, width and band you run. You get a station list, the tooling and a price against your name.