After nearly five years at Jacks, Anatolii gained deep experience across edgebanders, CNCs, and classical machinery. But eventually he wanted to build something of his own, and Kiwi Craft Kitchens Ltd was founded. Anatolii’s technical background gave him an immediate advantage. “I knew how to get maximum performance out of CNCs and edgebanders - so why not apply that to my own workshop?

Choosing the best machinery for his business came easily. He had trained at the KDT factory in Guangzhou with the Jacks service team, seeing first hand the automation, consistency and build quality behind the machines. “The price to value ratio was miles ahead of anything else I’d seen,” he says. “And I knew how much support Jacks were putting behind KDT. That made a big difference.”

Anatolii purchased a KDT 2 Series CNC, edgebander, and panel saw. The CNC impressed immediately. “The accuracy and extra features at this level are unbeatable. The extraction system for example. With the air jets around the spindle, the gated ports and vacuum arm, there’s virtually no airborne dust,” he says. “Plus, I can add automatic loading and unloading later as my business grows.” More recently, he upgraded an old German edgebander to a KDT KE 268JSA. Even with extensive experience servicing the older machine, it was taking too much time to keep running. “If I’m working on the machine, I’m not making money,” he says. The KDT solved that problem immediately. “At that price and quality, it was a no brainer.”

The KE 268JSA includes features he says you wouldn’t normally find at this level: automatic beam height, pre milling, corner rounding, a gravity fed premelt glue system, and pneumatic adjustments across key units. “It’s been running for months now and we haven’t had to fine-tune the trimmers once. I’m not even doing the edgebanding anymore - I can hand it to staff and know the finish will be spot on.”

That consistency matters, because Kiwi Craft Kitchens offers a 15 year warranty on its cabinetry. The machinery must deliver without compromise - and it does.

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