Our little company, Quality Corners is doing well right now. We are getting more business little by little, we should have neither short nor long term debt other than month to month operating costs in a little over a year, and we are continuously improving our processes to improve quality and reduces costs. We have one machine that will eliminate two people from one of our lower margin products so that we can move them over to start working on one of our areas of increased business while at the same time increasing the margin and the throughput of our lowest margin product. That is a machine that automatically edge routs the MDF rosettes we manufacture. Our fourth round corner shaper…

After Jim, the machinist with whom we contract finishes the routing machine and does some maintenance work on some of the machines currently running on the factory floor, he will finish making our fourth round corner shaper. We believe that will allow us to win a good chunk of business with a customer we could not serve because of lack of capacity. Grandpa Milo is currently working on improvements to our automatic trim saw and automatic universal round corner machine. When they are finished, he will run over to Idaho and get the entire set of machines hooked together so that after the stock is ripped and placed into the trim machine, no one will have to touch it until it comes out of the shaping process, ready for painting.

Then, in late March or early April we should receive our first CNC router. It is being manufactured for us by a company in Pittsburgh. We will be able to produce sample shaped rosettes (with Texas Lone Stars, jalapenos, fir tree, bear, deer, elk, and other carvings) for one of our customers in particular who serves a nationwide customer base. If that is well received, we will order enough additional CNC routers, modify them for automatic loading and unloading, and start production on an entire new line.

Finally, when our partner, Ron Voorhees and Grandpa Milo finishes getting the rosette and plinth block machining lines fully automated they will start working on getting the painting operation automated. When that is all finished, we believe no one in the world will be able to make a higher quality, less expensive rosette or plinth block than us!