Business View Oceania | Volume 3, Issue 10

87 88 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 YOUR SOLUTION www.homag.com BORD PRODUCTS broad network to ensure all clients are matched with a product to suit any specification. Available products include timber veneer, plywood, laminate, melamine, raw substrate, reconstituted veneer, and edging. The company also supplies specialty products; black PVC waterproof boards, white PVC waterproof boards, and OSB oriented strand boards. All products and specifications, including Bord Products’ specialty range, are available for distribution Australia-wide, and are built by design through the company’s advanced manufacturing facility in Melbourne, Australia. Evan Danahay, Operations Manager at Bord Products, shares his knowledge surrounding processes and innovations that help to facilitate Bord Products’ great work. “We have a purpose- built veneer and laminate press, located within our Melbourne headquarters. We actually commissioned it out of Spain six years ago, and it’s been a big hitter in the factory. It’s very heavy-duty, puts out great volumes of product, and can be run with minimal people. It’s cost- effective, has state of the art safety features, and gives us great control over the products we produce. We are actually one of very few companies in Australia that can make use of something as advanced and heavy-duty as this.” Continued innovation through technological advancement is a core value at Bord Products, and one they take very seriously. Alongside their custom-built press is a new automated Storage Cell. Taking over work that would traditionally be carried out using forklifts, the storage shelf improves safety by moving workers off the floors, and greatly increases efficiency. Mr. Danahay explains, “There are three factors that make this piece of machinery so effective. First of all, because of the way it operates, we can store probably three times as much in the same space as we could previously. It runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so it works while we aren’t there, and that in turn means we have more time