James Davies, based near Cardigan, has installed a four-head Stenner MHS9 horizontal resaw.
"Having made a significant investment in our primary breakdown equipment a couple of years ago we needed to upgrade our resawing," said Quinton Davies, managing director of James Davies.
The MHS9, a popular machine for fencing products sawmillers, will be used by James Davies to manufacture items such as feather-edged boards.
The company chose the MHS9 because it wanted to produce multiple components in a single pass with minimal labour input. The infeed and outfeed have also been made semi-automatic.
The investment in the Stenner line followed a significant investment two years ago in a Canter Teletwin from French manufacturer MEM.
This investment improved the throughput and efficiency at the front end, increasing overall production capacity by removing the requirement to process slabs. The primary objective of the project was to minimise the number of passes required to process the log.
James Davies, which can trace its roots back to the late 1800s, is an approved supplier of motorway fencing timbers under the Highways Agency Sector Scheme 4.
Stenner has produced more than 900 MHS9 machines from its Devon based, with machines operating in more than 30 countries.
