SCM Nova s 520 – Professional Thicknessing Planer

SCM Nova s 630 & Nova s 520 – Professional Thicknessing Planers
The SCM Nova s 630 and Nova s 520 represent the perfect balance between industrial-scale performance and essential simplicity for the Australian woodworking shop. These thicknessers are engineered to provide heavy-duty reliability, featuring massive cast-iron components that ensure absolute stability and a high-quality finish on both solid timber and composite boards.

Industrial Precision with Large Diameter Cutterblock Both the Nova s 630 and s 520 are equipped with a 120 mm diameter cutterblock featuring 4 knives as standard. This high-mass design provides the rotational inertia necessary for a smooth, consistent cut even when processing wide slabs of dense Australian hardwoods. The result is a superior surface finish that reduces the need for heavy sanding.

Four-Column Table Support for Total Stability To maintain absolute parallelism between the worktable and the cutterblock, the table is supported by four large-diameter columns. This “four-poster” configuration eliminates table movement and vibration during the machining of heavy workpieces, ensuring that panels remain perfectly consistent in thickness from edge to edge.

Powered Table Movement with Digital Readout The Nova series features powered lifting of the worktable, controlled via an intuitive system that includes a digital readout for the working height. This allows the operator to set the thickness with sub-millimetre accuracy in seconds, significantly increasing productivity and repeatability in a busy joinery environment.

Technical data

nova s 520
Cutterhead working width mm / inches 520 / inches
With TERSA Straight-knife Cutterhead:
Cutterblock diameter / n° of standard knives
Dimensions of standard knives mm/n°
mm 120/4
520 x 30 x 3
With XYLENT Spiral Helical Cutterhead:
Cutterblock diameter / n° of knives
Dimension of standard knives mm/n°
mm 120/84
15 x 15 x 2.5
Min. ÷ max. working height on thicknesser mm / inches 3.5 – 300
Feed speed on thicknesser m/min 5/8/12/18
Three-phase motor Hp 11
Max. stock removal mm 8