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class="bodycopyminus">The small family business, of Sundon Park, Luton, turns out an extremely wide range of joinery and specialist work for domestic and commercial customers. As well as doors, staircases, windows, conservatories, kitchen and bedroom units and panelling, it makes high quality shop-fronts and store interiors plus bar and office furniture.</span><span class="bodycopyminus"> </span></p> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr align="left" valign="bottom"> <td width="36%" class="bodycopyminus"> <div align="right"><i>Machine operator Kevin Sharpe with a door frame, incorporating a curved window frame surround, made on the Masterwood Winner at Cole Joinery. </i></div> </td> <td width="64%"> <div align="right"><span class="bodycopyminus"><img src="ip4.jpg" width="265" height="300"></span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">Because of the extremely varied nature of its work it was finding it increasingly difficult to recruit people with the right combination of skills needed, which is why it bought the Italian-made Winner from Masterwood (UK) Ltd. It has taken over most of the routine joinery and panel work, slashing production time and allowing more work to be taken on. </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">A particular area in which it has cut manufacturing time by half is the production of staircase components - jobs previously carried out with traditional tools such as hand routers - using Masterwood’s dedicated and easy-to-operate Masterstair software program. </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">Said Nigel Cole, whose father Ivor set up the business in 1970: “Masterstair is saving us a lot of time and effort; between a third and a half of the time it previously took to produce a staircase the traditional way. We simply feed in the dimensions of the staircase we require and it quickly calculates if it meets the British Standard and then goes on to produce a cutting list of all the necessary components to be machined. It couldn’t be simpler and the accuracy is always spot on.” </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">The Winner has also become invaluable for panel work and for producing highly accurate and sometimes complicated curved work on doors and window frames. </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">It is a three-axis cantilever type machine, with an X axis of 3,200mm, a Y axis of 1,295mm (for routing) and a Z axis of 110mm. Standard features include a 10.5hp router with four post automatic tool changer and two working zones. </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">Priced from around £40,000, the Winner range is available with the option of replacing the rack type tool changer with an eight or 14 post carousel tool changer that travels with the carriage. Standard software is Masterwood’s own easy-to-use Masterwork, a Windows-based program that works with any PC and incorporates CAD for design work. </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus"> Machine operator Kevin Sharpe said the Winner has been a godsend. “The software programs are easy to understand and use and once you have set them up you can let an apprentice mind the machine and feed it with parts.” </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">He added that the training provided, both at the Masterwood factory in Italy and on site following installation was excellent, and he liked the way that regular software program updates were provided. </span></p> <p><span class="bodycopyminus">Said Masterwood (UK) Ltd managing director Russell Corlett: “Cole Joinery is typical of the growing number of small joinery businesses that are simplifying their manufacturing processes with Masterwood CNC machining centres. A few years ago a CNC machining centre was the preserve of the big players in the joinery sector. With prices falling they have now become affordable to even the smallest business.”</span></p> <hr size="1" noshade> <p><span class="footer"><span class="bodycopyminus"><span class="footer">Sales enquiries to Masterwood UK. Tel 01436 675 000. Fax: 01436 678 999. email: <a href="mailto:masterwoodUK@aol.com">masterwooduk@aol.com</a></span></span></span></p> <p><span class="footer"><span class="footer"><span class="footer">(March 2003)</span></span></span></p> <hr size="1" noshade> <p class="bodycopy"> </p> </div> </BODY> </HTML>