The kitchen business is hot and designer Adrian McKenna likes it that way. Adrian and his wife Kiri are cooking up a storm at their Ezikit factory and showing it off at their new showroom in Hobart thanks to German ingenuity and precision in the shape of a new Holz-Her Lumina 1375 edgebander that has carved away man hours and raised production to record levels. [...]
A former draftsman and building designer specialising in 3D visualisation, Adrian says the Lumina 1375 edgebander - launched at Ligna Hannover last year - has stepped up Ezikit’s production on many levels, enabling their current expansion. “It’s a set-and-forget machine,” he says. “It’s the hub of our manufacturing process.” That means simple handling and high productivity and 100% repetition accuracy.“Edge work in the past – we’ve used three different edgebanders - absorbed a lot of time, post-edging to achieve acceptable levels. With the Lumina we’re saving two to three man hours a day, production is ‘clean’ and we don’t have to attend to anything.” [...]
- Text and images AWISA | Extract from AWISA The Magazine 34/2018, p. 52-53, Published by the Australian Woodworking Industry Suppliers Association Limited
