Cavendish Joinery has installed its first CNC machining centre in a new unit as part of a bid to expand the company and offer a greater range of products.
Cavendish, with its sister company Lift Cars & Co, is based in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, and employs 22 people. It specialises in bespoke joinery, including special sized items such as doors, frames, casement and vertical slide box sash windows and staircases.
An SCM 5-axis Record 110 NT TVN Prisma has gone into the additional unit, which also has new offices. The joiners’ shop and machine shop are in two adjacent units.
The machining centre has X/Y axes of 4700/1850mm and a Rapid 24 automatic tool changer. The company bought TopSolid’Wood integrated 3D design to manufacturing software supplied by Router Solutions.
“This being our very first CNC machine, we wanted a package to encompass all aspects of the CNC installation, including commissioning, training, software, tooling and even finance,” said managing director Mike Cascarina.
Cavendish is also installing a wood-burning system that will provide full heating within the factory, together with recycling of the 37 tons of woodwaste produced each year.
