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Luton-based Whitehill Spindle Tools are one of the few remaining UK manufacturers of specialist cutter tools for the manufacture of wooden doors, windows and other architectural features such as dado rails and picture rails. In order to keep pace with the late 20th century resurgence of wood, they solved their need for getting more from their existing machining centre by using Vibration Damped Palletisation (VDP) from System 3R as their prime workholding tool.

“ Unfortunately retrofitting a fully-automated robot to our Mazak vertical mill wasn’t a possibility,” explained M.D. David Hudson, “ so we took the easier option of adding this state-of-the-art palletisation on our twin pallet machine.”

“ System 3R were really helpful in loaning us a MacroMagnum circular VDP chuck to prove the point and we soon saw the benefits so bought it!”

The search for more environmentally-friendly sustainable timber has not only led to the usage of a wider variety of woods but also created the need for manufacturers to
introduce new wooden doors and windows to the marketplace. Whitehill works closely with these manufacturers and design new cutter tools for them to make both standard and bespoke products. Their product range has thus substantially expanded over the past few years.