Steam Bending or Solid Wood Bending is our profession. GHEbavaria developes, designs and supplies machines, devices, tools and production lines for steam bending / solid wood bending for the industrial production of bend wooden parts.
Typical applications are (wooden) chairs, toboggans / (snow-) sleds, music instruments such as guitar ribs or drum shelves, ship hulls for wooden boats or for example wine casks.
GHEbavaria and the former Holma are dedicating themselves since the 1920ies, backed by long-term experience and profound scientific works, contributing their knowledge to publications such as the Springer Handbook of Wood Science and Technology (Berlin, 2023) and many papers in national and international publications.