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With the new shop at Rosehill Woodcrafters comes new equipment.
One of the reasons for the new shop was to house new, more updated machines the company was accumulating, including a computerized machining centre (CNC) the company purchased about three years ago.
“We had wanted to (expand), or were thinking about it for years,” owner Harv Boehlig said.
With that machine, someone just has to use the accompanying software to tell the machine how to cut the wood, and it does the cutting automatically, Boehlig explained.
Boehlig said it makes the entire Rosehill operation far more efficient.
Shop foreman John Penner, who has been with Rosehill for five years, echoed those comments.
“It does our cutting and machining,” he noted.
He described it as a giant router that does the cutting with greater accuracy than would have been done before.
With the computerized machining centre, one person can do what it used to take four people to do. However, he noted, the machine didn’t replace the people; it just increased production, and those people are now doing other jobs in the shop.
The newest piece of equipment is the C and C doweling machine, Penner said.
Whereas workers used to have to drill the holes, insert the glue and then insert the dowels — eight millimetre wooden pegs — by hand, the machine now does all that.
Along with the new shop, Rosehill got its own spray booth for staining its custom-made products.
The company used to have to send products to Winkler for staining, risking damage to the pieces and taking up valuable time.
“We did that for quite a while,” Penner noted.
About eight months ago, when the new shop was ready to move into, the staining was started in-house.
“It saves tonnes of time,” Penner observed.
The company also has a new, larger edge-banding machine than it started with, which can handle a greater volume of work.
On the design side of things, he added, the sales staff can help customers come up with a design for their kitchen and print off a copy of what it will look like for their approval.
“They do a 3-D rendering of it,” he noted.
Having been in the cabinet industry for over 20 years, production manager Marv Buhler has seen some changes, especially at Rosehill.
“I started with Harv 14 years ago in June,” Buhler noted.
Back when Rosehill Woodcrafters started 16 years ago, they just had a couple of table saws, a drilling machine, a small edge bander and some hand tools, the production manager recalled.
Back then, the company usually had a kitchen done every couple of weeks while nowadays, the shop produces about 1 1/2 to two kitchens per day, he added.
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One of the reasons for the new shop was to house new, more updated machines the company was accumulating, including a computerized machining centre (CNC) the company purchased about three years ago.
“We had wanted to (expand), or were thinking about it for years,” owner Harv Boehlig said.
With that machine, someone just has to use the accompanying software to tell the machine how to cut the wood, and it does the cutting automatically, Boehlig explained.
Boehlig said it makes the entire Rosehill operation far more efficient.
Shop foreman John Penner, who has been with Rosehill for five years, echoed those comments.
“It does our cutting and machining,” he noted.
He described it as a giant router that does the cutting with greater accuracy than would have been done before.
With the computerized machining centre, one person can do what it used to take four people to do. However, he noted, the machine didn’t replace the people; it just increased production, and those people are now doing other jobs in the shop.
The newest piece of equipment is the C and C doweling machine, Penner said.
Whereas workers used to have to drill the holes, insert the glue and then insert the dowels — eight millimetre wooden pegs — by hand, the machine now does all that.
Along with the new shop, Rosehill got its own spray booth for staining its custom-made products.
The company used to have to send products to Winkler for staining, risking damage to the pieces and taking up valuable time.
“We did that for quite a while,” Penner noted.
About eight months ago, when the new shop was ready to move into, the staining was started in-house.
“It saves tonnes of time,” Penner observed.
The company also has a new, larger edge-banding machine than it started with, which can handle a greater volume of work.
On the design side of things, he added, the sales staff can help customers come up with a design for their kitchen and print off a copy of what it will look like for their approval.
“They do a 3-D rendering of it,” he noted.
Having been in the cabinet industry for over 20 years, production manager Marv Buhler has seen some changes, especially at Rosehill.
“I started with Harv 14 years ago in June,” Buhler noted.
Back when Rosehill Woodcrafters started 16 years ago, they just had a couple of table saws, a drilling machine, a small edge bander and some hand tools, the production manager recalled.
Back then, the company usually had a kitchen done every couple of weeks while nowadays, the shop produces about 1 1/2 to two kitchens per day, he added.
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