High-end bespoke furniture manufacturer Manufacturing by Design has removed a bottleneck in its sizing operations by investing in a Striebig Compact vertical panel saw.
The Berkhamsted-based company, which moved to a new 9,300ft² site last year, also dispelled talk of doom and gloom and said its business was booming.
“We have a panel saw which was not able to cope with the increasing amount of sizing we needed to do on it,” said managing director Tony Juchau.
“As most of our work starts off with panel sizing, this was causing major problems further down the line.”
The Striebig Compact 4164 model sizes various sheet materials, mainly veneered boards and MDF, plus the occasional acrylic sheet, ranging in thickness from 19-38mm.
It has a cutting range of 3100x1644mm and a 60mm maximum cutting depth.
Useful accessories chosen by Manufacturing by Design, which has 20 employees including eight cabinet makers, include a scoring saw for laminates and a 600mm strip cutter for repeat cuts.
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