A £250,000 investment has trebled output at Newco Products in London’s East End which manufactures fitted kitchen systems and bespoke timber joinery.
The factory, supported by Newham borough council, provides employment and training for disabled people and a new panel processing line by Ortza was installed by sole UK distributor NEY.
Prior to the installation, panels were cut singly on a sliding saw table and sized panel components were drilled one at a time. Edgebanding was also a single panel process but it was not sophisticated enough for the manufacture of high quality cabinet fascias and drawer front panels so these had to be outsourced.
With the new installation, 9×6 chipboard panels are cut on an Ortza Arrow C38 beam saw in packs of six for sizing, planing and optimisation using software by Ardis.
Cut board from the saw table can be bar coded on its way to a UK 8 single sided Ortza edgebander and edged panels can be bar coded again before transfer to a Dart 800 machining centre for shaping, grooving and drilling.
Kitchen factory floor manager Dean Morris said resetting of the edgebander and machining centre could be carried out in seconds. He added: “We are generating three times the pre-Ortza output and we haven’t yet got near the buffers of what we think we can achieve with these new machines in volume terms.”
