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New Facility, New Business
Fine Line Pacific currently produces about
85 percent of its countertops for residential customers,
including dealers, home centers, builders and contractors;
and another 15 percent of its work through its commercial
division, which produces countertops for industrial buildings,
health care facilities and military bases, among others.
Between all three locations, Fine Line Pacific now keeps
250 employees busy.
Combined, the company's divisions now produce
nearly 40 kitchens per day. Not bad, especially considering
that today's rate is four times what it was during the time
period immediately after the merger, almost seven years
ago.
This growth, adds Tom, is due to a multitude
of factors, not the least of which is an ongoing commitment
to utilizing digital technology whenever possible.
"One of the biggest reasons we've grown
the way we have over the past few years is because we've
just tried to become more and more digital the entire time,
regardless of whether that was related to the equipment
and production, or even just processing paperwork,"
he says. "That's really the key to our efficiency:
the whole system is digital."
That means record-keeping, order processing
and other vital administrative tasks are all done electronically
to whatever extent possible. And in today's stone industry,
having a completely digital system means having plenty to
tech-heavy production equipment as well.
For Fine Line Pacific, that includes the
company's five CMS/Brembana Maxima CNC machines, which operate
at the flagship location, and three more identical CNC machines
operating at the spokane and Portland locations. An additional
CMS/Brembana Maxima CNC and CMS/Brembana Sprint bridge saw
are currently en route to the Kent facility.
"In this business, you really need
to have big equipment to grow quickly," Tom says.
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