Upgrading our CNC - Ongoing investment in a fully-equipped workshop
One thing that all of us here appreciate is that our MD and Owner, Andy, is committed to a constant programme of investment in the factory. Be it a new van, a new saw or a new CNC, we see regular renewing and upgrading of all the bits of kit which do the heavy lifting in our business.
This week has been extremely busy and pressured in our sales department as orders come in for the spring rush, so my time for blogging has been squeezed into the closing minutes of Friday afternoon. A fuller analysis of what the CNC will do, and of our wider upgrade programme, will have to wait for another time. For today, here are some pictures of the week the yellow lorry came to stay…
The Week The Yellow Lorry Came to Stay
It didn’t start with the yellow lorry, of course. It started with a rather more beaten-up vehicle arriving to take away our old CNC. The programme of capital investment here is to never run machinery into the ground, but to sell well they still have some value, and then throw that money forward into the new bits of kit. So this week, we waved goodbye to our first big Intermacc CNC, which will go on working for a smaller company somewhere up north. We had that machine since April 2015 – years of tremendous growth for us, and many of you have sink cutouts done on it.
On the way out…
Onto the lorry
Leaving a big hole
“Discordia” arrived late on Thursday. A Bulgarian lorry carrying an Italian machine. This was first light today
Her driver starts opening the sides to let us get at the new toy
And our friends from Flegg Projects arrive to help with the very ticklish forklift job that lies ahead
When you are moving equipment worth the price of a small home, in some parts of the country…
You take your time to make sure everything is balanced just right before lifting…
The trick is to work one end of the machine into the doorway far enough…
…so that sets of dolly wheels can be placed underneath
The forklift can then push the whole thing inside, endways…
…before working side on into the final position.
Meanwhile, the big yellow lorry is all ship-shape again, ready to return to Bulgaria. Though just reversing out of the farm yard is going to take him a while!
We are Affordable Granite, the leading granite and quartz worktop supplier in Surrey, East and West Sussex and across the South East. In order to be the best in the business for customer service and installation quality, we have to make sure that we are up to date, with constant improvements in the pipeline for our IT, our machinery, our vans and our on-site equipment. Firms that invest are not going to be cowboys. Call people you can trust us for a quotation on 01293 863992 or by email on [email protected].
