A press for making a continuous sheet from composite material has upper and lower press belts having respective lower and upper reaches that vertically spacedly confront one another across a press gap having an upstream inlet end and a downstream outlet end, and that have transversely spaced outer edges extending in the direction. The belts are advanced direction and thereby draw a mat of the composite material in the inlet end, compress it into the sheet, and expelling the sheet from the downstream end. Two transversely spaced elastic seal strips extend in the direction in the gap and are each engaged between a respective one of the outer edges of the upper belt and the respective outer edge of the lower belt. Each belt has at each of the edges a surface in engagement with the respective edge strip and having an average peak-to-valley height of less than 1 m.

In a double-belt press, an inner seal has an inner seal flow passage having an intake port via which a sealing fluid supplied into an inner sealing groove is taken in and a jet port via which the sealing fluid taken in via the intake port jets toward belts. The outer seal has an outer seal flow passage having an intake port via which the sealing fluid supplied into an outer sealing groove is taken in and a jet port via which the sealing fluid taken in via the intake port jets toward the belts. The partition wall has a plurality of fluid supply passages that supply each of the inner sealing groove and the outer sealing groove with the sealing fluid and a plurality of fluid recovery passages that recover the sealing fluid accumulating in the space formed between the inner seal and the outer seal.

A continuous press arrangement for manufacture of building panels, such as floor or wall panels, includes upper and lower press belts configured to form a product path therebetween for feeding a product in a feeding direction in response to rotation of one or more drums. An upper and a lower press table each include a displaceable pressure cushion configured to facilitate a pressure zone extending along at least a portion of said path. At least one of the press tables includes one or more pressure bars disposed upstream and/or downstream the pressure cushion, in the feeding direction. The one or more pressure bars are configured to apply a pressure to the upper press belt and/or the lower press belt respectively in a direction towards the product path.

A device for pressing material includes a control device, at least one first endless band forming a first presser; and at least one second presser. A pressing zone for pressing material is formed between the first endless band and the second presser and a longitudinal direction parallel to the first endless band is defined in a direction with respect to the pressing zone, from beginning to end of the pressing zone. By at least one pressure-exerting device, a pressing pressure on the at least one first endless band inner surface that is directed away with respect to the pressing zone can be built up in the direction of the pressing zone. The pressure-exerting device is designed so that at least one fluid can be applied onto the at least one first endless band inner surface in the direction of the pressing zone to build up the pressing pressure.