Higher productivity and quality with Diamaster

Sizing and grooving sheet-goods with conventionally designed Z3+3 PCD tooling generally restricts the increase of productivity and quality due to the staggered knife arrangement. The Diamaster PRO³ and Diamaster PLUS³ routers cut at up to 50% higher feed rates with a purposefully engineered knife arrangement, designed to maximize tool life and performance while maintaining perfect cut quality. This is possible as Real-Z3 technology closes gaps between the individual knives to increase the number of effective teeth.

Your benefits due to ...

Top performance with the help of Real-Z3

■ Up to 50% higher feed speed due to engineered arrangement of the Real-Z3 knives

■ Higher throughput by reducing cutting time

■ Up to 50% longer lifetime due to the constant work of the complete number of teeth

■ Diamaster PLUS³ is resharpenable up to 12 times due to the extended resharpening area

Production costs can significantly be reduced

■ Less rework and fewer rejects with chip-/ tear-free laminates and smooth edges

■ Efficient chip removal results in less edgeprep before edge-banding

■ The Real-Z3 knife arrangement eliminates the need for tool position adjustment or correction

More effective cutting edges, better machining quality

■ Continuous arrangement of the Real-Z3 knives yields excellent cut quality: chip-free edges and smooth sides

■ Optimized chip flow reduces dust residue on the workpieces

■ Continuous engagement the knives reduces vibration and increases cut quality

Innovating edging supply

A30+year relationship continues to grow between Auckland based Hutchco Enterprises and global manufacturer of thermoplastic edgings, Proadec Portugal. ‘Proadec sets the benchmark for calender cut flat sheet edging’, says Mark Leith, Managing Director at Hutchco. “We’d constantly get calls from customers and designers praising the colour match or surface finish of our edging but pleading for extra-large widths, and although we could already supply 65mm, this was limited to universal solid colours”.

Slitting is not new for Hutchco, a re-jigged British United (BU) leather splitter had taken up the task, cleanly ripping down Proadec edging at the high-speed rate of a snail discarding unusable off cuts in its wake. Although servicing customers well over the past decade, the process was no longer fit for purpose. This set the wheels in motion to innovate edging supply in a way never done before in NZ. The aim was to supply a variety of widths, minimise wastage from off cuts and economically increase stock availability by recreating the ‘calender cut’ processes in Portugal at Hutchco’s Auckland base.

Since it’s inception, Hutchco exclusively supplied calendered Proadec edging over extruded for its regular shape, consistent thickness and absence of concavities achieving easier machining and cleaner stronger glue lines. With the help of Proadec Portugal and local engineering specialists, Hutchco was able to collaborate on the advent of a custombuilt multi-blade calender machine, designed to custom slit as wide as any NZ edgebander can clash and calender cut 275mm master jumbo rolls.

“There were many machines available in Europe, but they were either too bulky or not entirely what we needed, following the pandemic it made sense to support local businesses with the added benefit of having engineers on hand for servicing and maintenance support” adds Mark.

From March 2021, Hutchco will have 24 select woodgrain/patterns and solid colour edgings on offer and adding 10 jumbo roll colours per month this year.

5 Reasons Businesses Choose Hutchco

Simple Ordering

Simplicity is you ordering the way you want to, you could call us, email us or exclude us completely and order online (you’d need you to register first) or fax us! Yes, we still accept fax orders.

Speedy Dispatch

Quick order turnaround is what Hutchco was built on, although, it’s not 1 man a van and trailer these days, we will have your unglued orders dispatched in the same day going overnight to the North Island and most parts of the South Island getting a no later than 2 day delivery.

Special Pricing

We like doing deals, pallet lot deals, 1st of every month deals, special one-off contract deals. We have two warehouse’s loaded with stock. Can we beat your current buy price? New or existing customers, call us, let's do a deal.

Super Sizing

Size up those designs! The long awaited Jumbo roll edging is now available in a growing range of woodgrain patterns and solid colours. We’ll be adding to our range each month so be sure to give us a heads up on which matches we need to get a move on.

Store Pickup

Not quite a brick and mortar store, but our Trade counter can turn an order around pretty quickly, even quicker if a call is made prior. Contactless pick up available during Alert level 3.