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Article: Jitco develops a knack for paanel sizing.(Just-in-Time Co.)
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- Wood & Wood Products
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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Fletcher, NC, firm strives to offer customers precision-cut panels, just in time.
It seems like such a simple task: Cutting particleboard and medium density fiberboard to the necessary lengths and widths to go into commercial shelving, tabletops and the like. Yet, as basic a function as panel sizing is in woodworking, for some big office furniture and retail fixture manufacturers, it is a chore they would rather leave for someone else to do in a more cost-effective and timely manner.
Enter Leo Best, who after working for 40 years in the wood products industry and visiting more than his fair share of manufacturing facilities, said, "I saw a need."