SWC Invest In Schubox System

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Family run since 1989 and based in Scarborough, SWC Trade Frames is a large regional fabricator of premium quality PVCu & Aluminium windows, doors, conservatory roofs and specialist products such as vertical sash sliding windows, shaped frames and composite doors. They manufacture in excess of 1000 frames per week and supply exclusively to the Trade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coating and finishing is key to SWC giving their customers colour choice and with the massive rise in painted finishes, SWC have had a new custom Schubox gas catalytic IR drying system installed in their factory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new Schubox will slash drying times for both solvent and waterbased PVC and GRP coatings from multiple hours to just 45 minutes. The Schubox uses an intrinsically safe gas catalytic infra-red technology to cure the coatings very rapidly at a low temperature of 35-38c. This improves quality, reduces work in progress and means the turn-around time for sprayed product is cut dramatically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rhys Richings, MD of SWC says “The Schuberts guys from start to finish were fantastic & we’ll certainly pass on our recommendations”

 

Chris Widdowfield, Engineer at SWC says “Had the pleasure of engaging a very professional, friendly, and knowledgeable team of installation engineers this week. A lovely job well done. Thank you Schuberts.”

 

For more information, email sales@schuberts.co.uk

 

NEW!!! Automatic GRP Door Prep Brushing Machine

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Is manually prepping GRP doors taking time, lots of labour and creating dust everywhere?!

We have a new custom designed fully automatic through-feed brush prep machine. 90+% of the whole door (even the deep recesses) is mechanically prepped before your wet prep clean and then sprayed.

2 doors per minute = 200+ GRP door slab faces per day…!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5+m/min, unique Flex-Trim brushes and some key differences from all other wood sanding machines!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All in for £28k?! Send us an email for details…

sales@schuberts.co.uk

Schuberts Install a New Giardina Automatic Glass Spray System at Esquire Glass

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Founded in 1970 Esquire Glass has become one of the UK’s leading independent glass processors.

Their core business is in the production of processed glass panels for the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom industry. However, since 2002 substantial investment in a second factory and ‘state of the art’ glass processing plant has led to the company’s accelerated growth into new markets.

Their newest investment has been on a cutting edge finishing system from Giardina Group and their UK partners, Schuberts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Running with waterbased coatings, the new Giardina system is capable of using both solid and far more difficult metallic colours. Fitted with 2 independent spray circuits, the switch between colours and coatings is very quick, meaning the customer can do both long and short runs of glass. All of the Wagner guns have the ability to run different tips and pressures, making the coating control very accurate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dualtech 416 machine has full belt overspray recovery system, meaning wasted coating can be safely removed from the main belt, filtered and re-introduced into virgin mixes. The recovery system, unlike other systems relies on a series of rubber squeegees that gently, but effectively removes paint, rather than harsh metal blades that scrape and damage the belt over time. This guarantees the longevity of the Giardina belt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The machine also boasts double filtration for the air input system, making the spray zone a clean zone, meaning reworks are a thing of the past.

On the extraction side, there are triple levels of filtration, ensuring incredibly low particulate emissions to atmosphere.

The touchscreen control panel gives the operators fine control over line speed, spray guns, circuits, pressures, gun heights and many other key parameters used for coating – all at the touch of a finger!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once sprayed, the glass goes through a flash-off section and then on to a combination drying oven. The glass comes off the end of the line perfectly coated, dry and ready to handle and with a footprint of just 14m from end to end, it really is a compact, high production finishing system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Lockett, MD at Esquire says:-

“ Realising we (Esquire Glass) needed to be more flexible in the painting of our glass products, we spent last summer conducting due diligence on various systems. We found the Giardina system in collaboration with Schuberts UK to be the most effective for our needs. It was installed at the end of Jan ’18 and has already shown huge benefit by taking our production from 400 to 1600 pieces per shift. So far, we are very happy with the machine and are looking forward to developing it’s use over the coming year”

For more information on high quality glass processing and painting, email Esquire Glass sales@esquire-glass.co.uk

For more information on Giardina range of finishing equipment email sales@schuberts.co.uk

Fensterbau/Holz-Handwerk Exhibition Nuremberg, Germany.

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Come and see us at FENSTERBAU FRONTALE/HOLZ-HANDWERK show 21st-24th March. Hall 12. Stand 12-826.
#giardina #finishing #schuberts

New Canadian Venture

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Schuberts are pleased to announce a new venture with Yorke Towne Supplies for the Toronto and ON, Canadian region.

 

In this significant move for both companies, it will mean that Schuberts will have an established, skilled partner with Yorke Towne and with a new Test Centre being installed during March 2018, a full working reference site within their laboratory.

 

Yorke Towne employ 30 people, have been in business since 1974 and operate from a 37,000 sq ft building. They serve the wood, kitchen, joinery and more recently, the composite GRP and PVC markets with a range of coatings from manufacturers such as Renner, Milesi and Akzo Nobel. They are also an authorised distributor for RegaLead products for the PVC, GRP fiberglass, window and door market.

 

Along side their range of coating products, Yorke Towne also supply and service key equipment from Graco, Finishing Brands (Binks/DeVilbiss), IWATA and SATA paint. They also have a significant working stock of consumable parts for Viledon and Columbus Industries air filtration products and paint overspray collection filters.

 

Finally, they also have in house, state-of-the-art custom colour matching and canning facilities to service all their customers directly.

 

The new Schubert installation will showcase two key elements – flash-off conditioning and Schubox drying. Yorke Towne will be able to run full scale wet trials with both solvent based and waterbourne coatings in all the above industries, proving how quickly the long wave IR technology can process wet painted products.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schuberts and Yorke Towne have the perfect combination of experience, drive, technology and enthusiasm and with the new Schubox installation, a totally new way of thinking!

 

For more information, please email scesario@yorketowne.com or sales@schuberts.co.uk

UK Timber Door Manufacturer Goes the Schubox Route

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One of the UK’s market leading supplier of wooden doors and associated products has just installed a new finishing system from Schuberts.

Their brand name can be found in the most prestigious names in the Builders Merchants and Retail sectors across the UK with in excess of 400,000 internal and external doors sold per year.

 

The new system comprises of two custom dimension centrifugal spec spray booths with canopies, lighting and custom duct work, plus a new custom Schubox gas catalytic infra red drying system. The input air is pre-filtered through capture and hold filters in the spray shop sliding doors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The doors are pre-sanded, base-coated in the spray booths, dried in the Schubox, then denibbed, top-coated and back into the Schubox one final time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Typical Schubox drying times with their high-build waterbased coatings are just 30 minutes at 35c, cutting previous drying times down from 3-4 hours per coat!

 

For more information on how Schuberts can streamline your finishing processes, email sales@schuberts.co.uk

WINDOOR 2017, Toronto, Canada

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Come and see us at Windoor 2017! 28-30th November.

Stand 379.

We’ll be launching our Schubox and Kit-Cat ranges into the Canadian market. Gas catalytic IR drying systems for GRP, ABS, PVC and glass.

Keylite Dry In Record Time With Schubox Technology

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Keylite Dry In Record Time With Schubox Technology

 

 

Keylite offer a full range of roof windows, blinds, timber loft ladders, flashings, electric operation kits and accessories and is Europe’s fastest growing roof window manufacturer.

Underpinning their 10 year warranty is a high quality coating finish and when sales volumes increased, this became a production bottleneck. Keylite turned to Schuberts for an affordable quick curing process for their waterbased coatings.

Full production trials were carried out with Keylite substrate, their own range of coatings and their production methods, in the Schubert UK Test Centre Schubox system. This proved that under real conditions, the Schubox system can more than half the drying times of their finishes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A custom dimension Schubox was ordered and then 7 weeks later was installed in Zambrow, Poland. This Schubox employs long wave gas catalytic infrared technology via heating panel emitters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Running at just 38-40c, it is able to accept racks of wet products and dry them properly in record time, without affecting the substrate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Blanthorne, Keylite International Operations Director, says “We are delighted with the performance of the Schubox. There have been immediate improvements in quality, cycle time and capacity. This, the latest in a series of investments, will ensure we continue to supply our range of innovative and award winning products in line with our ambitious growth plans”.
For more information on Keylite products, see www.keyliteroofwindows.com

 

To see how the Schubox can improve your throughput and deal with that drying bottleneck, email sales@schuberts.co.uk

A RICH LEGACY IN WOODWORKING – BURBIDGE INSTALL SCHUBERTS FINISHING SYSTEM

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A RICH LEGACY IN WOODWORKING – BURBIDGE INSTALL SCHUBERTS FINISHING SYSTEM

 

 

 

 

For well over 35 years Burbidge have been manufacturing and distributing kitchen doors and accessories. Over these years they have developed an intimate knowledge of wood production and honed their ability to revive, reinvent and modernise classic design.

“Quintessentially British”, the Burbidge collection illustrates how in every design their passion for fine kitchens never fails to shine. With the many of their ranges produced in at local UK factory sites their unique heritage as a British manufacturer provides inspiration whilst keeping their perspective fresh and contemporary.

Burbidge wanted to increase their sprayed production, whilst improving quality and quicker delivery times and engaged Schuberts to design a custom finishing system to not only be able to deal with an automatic spray machine, but also hand sprayed products in both 2k PU and water based. Their range of coatings go from matt, satin and gloss onto many different solid species of solid wood, MDF and vinyl wrapped doors and carcasses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new finishing system from Schuberts combines a clean flash-off room that not only accepts product from an automatic reciprocating spray machine, but also trolleys from hand-sprayed production. A slotted entry means the outfeed from the spray machine delivers the wet-coated parts directly the an operator who is able to manually load onto racks OR bring fully loaded racks directly into the flash-off via double sliding sealed doors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the product has flashed off and allowed to flow and settle, the racks are introduced into the custom-built Schubox drying system, via special bi-fold doors to minimise door sweep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Schubox is designed to dry both solvent and water based coatings very quickly at a low temperature. This means a drying time of between 30 to 50 minutes on all of Burbidge’s range of coatings. The combination of gas catalytic long wave infrared, reflected infrared, air movement and 35-38c means the Sherwin Williams coatings are not ‘skinned over’ and dry properly through the coating thickness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the products have been in the Schubox for the correct amount of time, they can either be turned over and sprayed the other side or denibbed and recoated to get the high quality finish Burbidge are famous for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bottle neck of drying overnight has now been cured with the new Schubox system., with a better quality, fewer reworks and a much quicker throughput.

For more information on Burbidge’s range of products, see http://www.burbidge.co.uk/

To see how the Schubox systems can reduce your work in progress and improve quality, email sales@schuberts.co.uk

#burbidge #kitchens #schubox #quality #finishing #spraying #bottleneck

WB Group Chooses New Schubert Finishing System For GRP and PVCu Products

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From the company’s 70,000 sq ft factory in the north east of England, the WB Group fabricates and manufactures windows and doors in a large range of styles and finishes to suit every application.

 

WB Group was formed in 1981 and now has over 30 years experience in the manufacture and supply of PVCu windows and doors, GRP Composite Doors & PVCu door infill Panels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schuberts have just installed a brand new custom built finishing system for WB Group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The system consists of a clean room spray enclosure, flash-off section, Schubox curing zone, overhead conveyor and paint mix room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The spray enclosure pre-filters the air prior to entering the room. The balanced air system means the fans ramp up and down, constantly adjusting their output to suit all the variables of spraying. Doors open/closed, filters new/clogged all impact on the air balance inside a spray booth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A flash-off area allows the coatings to settle, flow and vent prior to the Schubox. Again filtered air input ensures the wet product is kept clean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the flash-off, the Schubox gas catalytic IR drying system dries the 2k PU coatings in 30-40 minutes at just 36c with long wave infrared, air movement and reflection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information about GRP and PVCu finishing systems, email sales@schuberts.co.uk