Top kitchen manufacturer Smallbone has invested in new drilling and routing capacity at its Devizes factory.

The company has installed a Weeke BHX 500 CNC machine for carcass and component production, especially face and end drilling.

The head configuration allows two panels to be drilled and worked simultaneously (from top and bottom) either with identical, mirror or totally independent patterns.

Smallbone plans to fit an automated conveyor to the Weeke in the future.

Weeke, part of the Homag group, has sold more than 150 BHX 500 machines since the model was launched last November.