How we make it

Format-4 Kappa 590

The first machine anything touches. A sliding table saw is essentially a three-metre ruler with a spinning blade at the end of it: the board rides the table, the blade never moves, and the cut comes out dead square.

Square matters more than it sounds. Every later operation — edging, drilling, assembly — is measured from the first two cut edges. Get those wrong and a run of twelve cabinets ends up a centimetre out at the far end of the kitchen.

5.8 m² — it swallows a full 2.8 m × 2.07 m jumbo board whole, which is roughly the size of a double mattress.

Format-4 profit H150 and profit H80

A nesting cell lays a whole sheet on a vacuum bed, holds it down by suction alone, and cuts every part out of it in one run — drilling the hinge cups and shelf holes as it goes and printing a label for each piece. Nesting software works out how to get the most parts from the fewest boards, which is why a nested kitchen wastes far less board than one cut from a list.

Both cells load the sheet and unload the cut parts on their own, too: a full board goes in one end and labelled parts come off the other while whoever is running them is already setting up the next job. They replaced an older nesting CNC that we loaded and unloaded by hand, swapped out in 2026.

The H150 is itself a 5-axis machine, so it will do angled and shaped work on sheet material that a three-axis router cannot. The H80 is a 4-axis cell and takes the volume: carcase parts, doors, drawer boxes, trade cut-and-drill work.

Between them they also cut our bespoke mouldings, skirtings and cornices, machine Tricoya panels for wet areas and external use, and flatten solid tops and desks.

Three machining centres, two of them 5-axis. Having more than one means a sheet job for a trade customer is not queued behind somebody’s one-off staircase part.

Holz-Her Lumina 1596

Edge tape is what stops a board edge looking like a board edge. This machine glues, trims, scrapes and buffs every visible panel edge in one pass — ABS, PVC, veneer or solid lipping — so the tape follows the panel face with no step to catch your fingernail on. Curves are edged separately by hand for anything that is not straight.

Its Glu Jet system leaves no visible glue line, which matters most on light boards: a white or pale grey door used to show a thin dark seam at every edge, and now it does not. We hold Hranipex and Egger ABS tape by the roll, so we can match an Egger decor exactly — including the Perfectsense matt and gloss boards.

Zero glue line. The join is invisible rather than merely neat — the single clearest difference between a cabinet that looks made and one that looks bought.

Cabinet Vision, Cinch and Fusion

Three tools, each for what it is good at. Cabinet Vision drives the cabinetry: it turns a kitchen into a nest, a drill program and a printed label for every part. Cinch does the same for windows and doors, including the mortice and tenon joints.

Autodesk Fusion is for the one-offs — a bar with bespoke brass ladder frames, a curved reception counter, a jig.

The point of all of it is that your job exists as a correct model before any board is cut, and that the model is what the machine reads — not a number somebody wrote on a bit of board.

Built twice. Once on screen, once for real. The screen build is where mistakes are cheap.