Significant IWM & Soukup installation at London joinery firm

Chessington, London-based joinery firm Todi & Boys, needed to increase production for its timber casement and sliding sash windows and doors but hit a bottleneck with labour-intensive product traditional methods. IWM & Soukup provided the solution.

Having extensively researched the machinery market, Todi & Boys found various options but none that could be supplied from one manufacturer – or indeed anyone who knew how to produce UK windows and doors.

Todi & Boys was delighted and impressed with IWM & Soukup Machinery’s project approach of supplying window machinery dedicated to the UK window market complete with Soukup Wincreator software and Soukup tooling designed to effectively manufacture UK casement and sliding sash windows as well as door and joinery requirements with its knock-down component production methodology.

This unique approach revolutionised Todi & Boys’ production. The new installations meant it was able to achieve business ambitions and objectives using the following machines:

• Soukup CNC window centre, model Crafter
• Soukup CNC automatic crosscut, model Crossline 500
• Soukup CNC milling and drilling machine, model Versa DM
• Soukup five-head moulding machine, model GS 5
• Soukup hydraulic frame and sash cramp, model FP 32:21

All the CNC machines are linked to the Soukup Wincreator software, so all production orders are sent from the office direct to each machine. The Crossline 500 is coupled with a label printer which prints customers’ order details attached to the components throughout the production process on the Crafter CNC window centre and Versa milling and drilling machine, completing the process for hinges, handles, triple vents etc – all from one Soukup Wincreator software system.

Ian Brown, IWM
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