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Today, our core product is surfacing. With the stone and quartz surfacing, we have been
an acrylic DuPont Corian fabricator since it was basically invented, we also still do
Formica countertops, manufacture bath surfacing, walls, bathtubs, shower pans, vanity tops,
things like that. And uh, we today we have two showrooms that
are open to the public, where we actually do complete kitchen and bath remodeling, as
well as focus on our core product of surfacing. But we also very heavy into commercial business.
We also service home centers. We're able to develop all types of products, we are developing,
fully recycled glass bath surfacing product right now. We are using recycled gems and
minerals from the jewelry industry to make bath surfacing products today.
The great advantage to the Northwood SawJET, meaning that it cuts with both the saw blade
and a waterjet, is the fact that the saw obviously doing only straight lines moves at a much
faster pace. Having the waterjet on the same tool, we can come back and cut the radiuses,
the arches, the out of shapes, the sink cutouts, cooktop cutouts, faucets drilled holes, things
like that. The first large commercial job that we won
after getting this equipment, was the new Oneok Field in downtown Tulsa ballpark. Very
few straight lines in a ball field. When you look at the suite countertops things like
that, round radius walls, and the waterjet will cut around all the shapes and we end
up with much better material yield. Our lost percentages were reduced by this machinery
considerably. We increased installer?s capacity almost 50%.
The decision to go with the Northwood brand, we wanted to buy American Made. I see product
development and improvement to the machines things like that and obviously the fact they
use KMT on the waterjet side of the Sawjet, was a big factor to us because of KMT's knowledge
and uh, longevity and experience in that industry as well.
The waterjet technology, what it has meant to our shop is; capacity, speed, efficiency,
and cost savings. Our customers have the advantage one they are dealing with Hoffman Fixtures
Company, to basically have almost a one-stop shop. There's not alot of companies that look
at kitchen, bath, both for commercial and residential when you talk about Kitchen and
Bath Surfacing, that can provide a one-stop shop.