Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Woodworking tool maker uses latest CNC machines
Use of the latest CNC tool production and grinding technology is enabling woodworking tooling maker to maintain its technical lead and rapid response to customers. The use of tool production and grinding technology supplied by Walter GB is enabling Carbide (UK) to maintain its technical lead and unrivalled rapid response in the production of a wide range of woodworking tooling for customers throughout the UK and abroad. Director Laurie Witherwick is adamant that the company's considerable investment over the past six years in three Helitronic five-axis tool grinders for the manufacture of solid carbide cutters - complemented by the Cyber grinding tool simulation software package - as well as two Woodtronic TCT circular saw blade grinders, has been money well spent.
'Indeed, our application of the Walter technology, coupled with the way in which we can handle every job from wood sample to CAD (AutoCAD) and complementary CNC machining, ensures our unprecedented lead in the design and production of tooling that other companies cannot, or will not, tackle,' he claims.
With production/sales accounting for 80 per cent of turnover, and the remainder on regrinds, Carbide (UK) is a specialist designer, manufacturer and supplier of saw blades, cutter blocks, solid carbide and diamond tooling, tips and knives, boring bits and router cutters used throughout the UK woodworking sector plus some users in the United States and Belgium.
Multi-national manufacturers of kitchens, caravans and furniture are included on its customer list.
While standard tooling is offered mainly via its agency agreements with Sandvik and Garnia, the focus at the site in central Hull is to offer a high-level of technical expertise in the design and manufacture of complex, special-purpose tooling - for example, specialised solid carbide cutters and disposable tipped tooling.
And this is where the Walter technology really comes into play, according to Witherwick.
'Indeed, our application of the Walter technology, coupled with the way in which we can handle every job from wood sample to CAD (AutoCAD) and complementary CNC machining, ensures our unprecedented lead in the design and production of tooling that other companies cannot, or will not, tackle,' he claims.
With production/sales accounting for 80 per cent of turnover, and the remainder on regrinds, Carbide (UK) is a specialist designer, manufacturer and supplier of saw blades, cutter blocks, solid carbide and diamond tooling, tips and knives, boring bits and router cutters used throughout the UK woodworking sector plus some users in the United States and Belgium.
Multi-national manufacturers of kitchens, caravans and furniture are included on its customer list.
While standard tooling is offered mainly via its agency agreements with Sandvik and Garnia, the focus at the site in central Hull is to offer a high-level of technical expertise in the design and manufacture of complex, special-purpose tooling - for example, specialised solid carbide cutters and disposable tipped tooling.
And this is where the Walter technology really comes into play, according to Witherwick.
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