For timber processors battling to stay in the black, selecting the right machinery can make or break the business. The challenge TIMFIN Limited managing director Warwick Lee set Lakeland Steel Products 18 months ago was to build a finger jointer thatwould go twice as fast as the one the company built for him back in the 90s, allowing him to go from two shifts to one without dropping production. Lee took over the company started in 1965 by his father and two brothers around seven years ago. He's proud of TIMFIN's reputation for doing a good job - about 95% of production is finger jointed product, two thirds for the domestic market in the form of window reveals, door jambs and a small amount of exterior joinery, and the balance mainly treated and primed products for Australia.
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