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Ferche is a one-stop-shop for solid moulding and veneered products!
Solid mouldings and veneered products are the two main categories of products. Solid hardwood mouldings are produced in two distinct areas of the plant. Orders are first defined as commodity or job-lot size. Large commodity runs, from one thousand to fifty thousand feet, are manufactured on high speed Weinig moulders which take longer to set up, but can produce a quality finish at a high feed rate. The job-lot orders, from 1 piece to one thousand feet, are directed to smaller Weinig moulders which can be set up quickly and produce their high quality finish at a much slower throughput. Both are efficient for their intended purpose.
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The smaller moulders are the ones which have produced exotic jatoba door frames, 8 inch cherry crown, 2 ½” thick custom walnut casing, 10” mahogany thresholds and other unusual and short-run orders. Further example of Ferche’s diverse capabilities are reflected in last year’s production numbers: 800 unique solid interior jambs in 27 species, 1655 casing profiles in 27 species, 544 base patterns in 26 species, 130 different astragals in 19 species.
In Ferche’s veneer work centers, door jambs, skirtboards, veneered boards and base are manufactured as the primary products . The two centers differ in that one (the flat line) presses veneers to the face of a substrate which has hardwood edges glued to it, while the other (the wrap line) wraps the veneer across the face and around the edges. The flat line includes a moulder which shapes the hardwood edge into the desired profile shape, such as the top cap on a piece of base.
Last year Ferche produced 281 different veneered jambs on an edge-banded, particle board core with 15 species of wood. There are wood core, lumber core and wrapped jambs that add to the diversity of the product line.
Ferche is the one-stop-shop for solid moulding and veneered products!
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