Deral equips Hunter Clark for flexibility

Hunter Clark is one of Scotland’s best and longest established building companies – now in its 108^th year. The company has been developed into a  Building, Public Works and Masonry Contractors and currently employs 300 skilled craftsmen and specialists in various fields.

In the 1980s Hunter Clark established an internal joinery department to supply high quality products initially for internal consumption. The department produces and supplies a high quality of manufactured joinery work especially for restoration projects. Today the joinery department has expanded to the extent that they now supply to external customers and contractors. The Hunter Clark Joinery Department  is Managed by David Winning who has extensive experience in this sector.

As part of an ongoing program of investment in high-tech equipment to “move the company on”, David recently oversaw the installation of a Weeke Venture 3 CNC machining centre supplied by Homag UK Scotland agents Deral.

The Venture 3 will greatly enhance Hunter Clark’s capacity and flexibility while greatly improving product quality. Deral was the leading choice of supplier as David has previous experience of their expertise and professionalism: “I know them very well. Deral are first class for back-up and engineering”.

By investing in Homag Group technology with backing from Weeke, Homag UK and Deral, Hunter Clark have taken a major technological step forward.

Inventair heat for Express Timber

Paisley-based Express Timber Products has installed an Inventair Clean Air Systems (CAS600) warm air heater system in their 12,000 square feet factory. The system was ordered from Scotland’s premier machinery supplier Deral. The CAS 600 warm air heater produces a hea output of 600,000 BTU (175kW) and is capable of burning up t 45 kg/hour of hard or softwoods.

Express Timber Products (ETP) was formed in 1992 with the aim of producing machined sections of hardwoods and softwoods for the joinery and construction trades. The factory is equipped with high tech throughfeed moulders, cross-cut saws and all the associated equipment required to produce square dressed, rebated and moulded sections. These sections include facing, skirting, dado rails, cornices, panel moulds, glazing beads and much more.

The manufacturing process at ETP naturally produces a significant volume of off-cuts which are classified as waste. Until now ETP had been disposing of this waste in skips and subsequently in landfill – a costly process.

ETP investigated a grant from The Carbon Trust which involved – among other things – disposing of the off-cuts in an environmentally controlled way which involved some element of re-cycling. The solution was provided by Deral who are Scottish agents for Inventair by providing a wood burning system to provide clean heat for the factory.

The Inventair system is working perfectly at ETP. “Not only does it provide an excellent heat source but it has saved the cost of waste disposal and the gas-fuelled heating alternative” explains ETP Managing Director Eric Ainsworth. ETP estimate a payback of less than 4 years on the investment for a piece of equipment which is essentially maintenance-free and will offer many years of reliable service.