Specialist door and bespoke joinery manufacturer Unsworth Ltd has invested more than £200,000 in woodworking machinery at its North Wales production facility.
The company invested in a range of equipment for Rhyl-based Unsworth Joinery, set up last year to meet increasing demand for high quality internal laminated and veneered doors for customers including hosptials, schools and hotels.
One of the main items installed is a Comac CNC machining centre supplied by Liverpool-based JJ Smith & Co (Woodworking Machinery) Ltd.
The Comac ML 2.6 heavy-duty machine sizes door blanks and makes the vision panel aperture, intumescent strip groove, hinge recesses and lock casing slot in one operation, along with producing rebated stiles.
The machine, specified for door and general joinery production, has a horizontal 4.5hp and vertical 10hp router heads, plus vertical and horizontal drilling and a saw unit.
Other standard features include a six-position head-mounted automatic tool changer, heavy-duty rack and pinion drive to the X-axis, twin working field option and Licom Alfacam software.
Unsworth Joinery, which supplies fire doors to Manchester United and Salford Council, has equipment for doors to be machined, veneered, finish sanded and lacquered/sprayed before dispatch. Production is planned to be increased from the current 600 doors a month to 1,000 in the near future.
Parent company Unsworth Ltd, based in Manchester, aims to move the factory to a purpose-built site within the next 18 months.
