Graeme Foster and James Graham can boast over 30 years experience in the woodworking industry and are very well respected engineers by trade with a thorough understanding of the solid wood, joinery, furniture and panel processing industries.
Promoting SCM's Premium range of machinery, including classical, panel processing, CNC machining centres and sanders, the wide range well suits G&J’s customer base in the north east, where it services all types of machinery and is capable of obtaining or manufacturing spare parts itself in order to provide its increasing number of customers with a very high level of service.
Rosebirch Limited is a typical G&J customer, supplying fit-out solutions to a wide range of the UK's leading retail companies, and is currently experiencing strong growth through fostering professional relationships and delivering timely results of a high standard. One of its key goals is to provide a professional and friendly service to all types of organisations, from large corporations to smaller retailers. Rosebirch have a staff of over 40 personnel with a well equipped workshop including latest technology wood and panel processing machinery.
As Rosebirch manufacture a wide range of counters and cabinets to meet its customer's requirements, Stephen Flynn, managing director, was keen to improve its edgebanding facility, as its old machine was coming to the end of its life, so he contacted G&J's Graeme Foster who had already supplied both service and machinery to Rosebirch over a number of years.
After detailed discussions, Stephen Flynn confirmed an order for an SCM Single sided automatic edgebander, model K260 Evo, from G&J Machinery, and upon arrival at Rosebirch's factory, it was immediately installed and commissioned by G&J Stephen Flynn, comments: "We already had a very good working relationship with G & J having bought machines and servicing from them over a number of years, and as they are now an SCM distributor, we trusted them to supply a machine to meet all our edgebanding requirements."
The SCM K260 Evo edgebander is a compact machine but fitted with many of the features employed on much larger machines, one of which is the RT-V infeed panel edge trimming group that has two contra-rotating cutterblocks that plane any imperfections from the panel edges and thus provides an excellent surface before edge gluing with hot melt adhesive.
This unit is followed by edgebanding application of both rollfeed materials, including melamine, PVC and ABS, and strips of laminate and solid wood lippings up to 6mm thickness on panels from eight to 60mm thickness at a feed speed of nine metres/minute.
The K-2 end trimming unit follows, always giving a perfect cut, with the two independent motors sliding on prismatic guideways. The unit provides rapid set-up between straight and angular cutting with the automatic tilting device and it can also radius corners. A top and bottom edge trimming and finishing group, R-K, follows with rapid changeover between straight and radius finishing with pneumatic positioning and fast adjustments with mechanical readouts.
For top quality finishing of all applied edges, a glue scraping unit is followed by a buffing unit to remove any sharp edges after machining the applied edging materials.
Error-free programming and optimal visualisation of all production information is provided by the Orion One Plus control unit at the infeed to the K260 Evo with a four inch display.
Rosebirch's Stephen Flynn concludes: “We are very pleased with the SCM K260 Evo edgebander. It is very fast to set-up between the wide range of jobs that is due to the nature of our business and it provides an excellent finish on all panels. Plus we have the comfort of Graeme Foster and James Graham, being based locally, to provide us with excellent service on all our machines in order to keep all of our own customers happy and maintain good relationships and ensure future business."
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