Dezignatek keeps developing

Dezignatek, the custom door business for NZ Panels Group, has been rapidly expanding since it took over the Arborline doors business in late 2018, and is set to introduce more innovations in the coming year that will set it up as the ‘onestop door shop’ for joiners nationwide.

With a substantial increase in volume over the past 18 months, the business has invested heavily in automation across a number of fronts. A fully automated spraybooth for its thermoform doors ensures a consistently high standard of finishing. Delamination issues are avoided by repeated testing of panels in a specialist oven throughout the production day to check appropriate glue strength.

A large, German-sourced RobaTech fully automated sanding line was commissioned last year, again resulting in a more consistent finish for thermoform panels and a much faster through-put through the sanding area.

The five CNC machines are constantly busy and with a new automated tracking and scanning system, the myriad of panels associated with one project can be visually tracked at every stage throughout the production line, right through to packaging and despatch. While automation may seem to have taken over, there are more than 40 staff on the production floor involved in everything from programming the CNCs to optimally cut every project, to ensuring doors are sanded, glued, pressed, trimmed, packed and despatched without delay.

On the edge-banding side, a 45 degree edge bander offers a bevel edge for melamine doors or a straight or bevel option for acrylic doors. Two other laser edgebanding machines complete the custom-edging offer and can edge the range of soft-matt laminates from Prime Panels.

On the horizon?

With a consolidation of Arborline production into Dezignatek, you can expect to see the thermoform colour range reviewed to present a ‘best of the best’ with some new additions added to boost the range. A new online ordering system is currently being trialled with clients and following their feedback, a wider release will be available – focusing first on the edging business, and then moving to include thermoform orders.

Some additional value-add services that will reduce work for joiners is also on the cards – we’ll give you more detail in the coming months. And if you want to check on news or be sure you’re always up with the latest range, make sure you visit the refreshed website.

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Dezignatek can provide a seamless laser edge on more than 40 melamine colours, 15 acrylic and 5 Soft-Matt laminates. Choose from 35 thermoform colours and and panels custom-made by Dezignatek.