Apparatus for manufacturing panels made of foamed plastic material

An apparatus for manufacturing panels made of foamed plastic material, comprising a supporting framework for a device for feeding a sheet-like element to be cut to at least one cutting station and a device for unloading the sheet-like element cut into panels made of foamed plastic material from said cutting station, said at least one cutting station comprising a supporting structure for at least one cutting wire that forms, along its own extension, a cutting portion configured to contact said sheet-like element to be cut, means being provided for the relative motion of said cutting portion with respect to said sheet-like element to be cut, there being also, upstream of each cutting station, an incision station having at least one first incision blade adapted to provide, at at least one face of said sheet-like element to be cut, a respective incision at the region configured to be contacted by said cutting portion of said cutting wire, and further comprising, substantially at said cutting station, a device for picking up the dust generated as a consequence of the cutting of said sheet-like element.