Three H Furniture expanding, hiring: shop expansion reflects flourishing office furniture market.

AuthorRoss, Ian
PositionDESIGN-BUILD

A bulging order book for office furniture has a New Liskeard manufacturer embarking on a plant expansion. Site excavation began in mid-September on a half-million-dollar expansion to create more production room at Three H Furniture Systems.

Company president Roy Dittman said a new addition is being grafted onto their 40,000-square-foot shop to enlarge their shop by about 10 per cent and add 10 new jobs to their 80-person workforce.

"It's not a huge expansion," he said. "We just needed more room."

Included in the investment is $150,000 for new equipment in the form of a fourth point-to-point machine. These are programmable CNC machines that perform the drilling and routing to make the various components for furniture assembly.

Dittman expects the new addition to be "roof tight" within a few weeks, allowing staff and machinery to start moving in before the snow flies.

The general contractor is Rivard Brothers with Pederson Construction handling the foundation work.

"What's we're seeing is an increasing demand for a lot of the new products we've been offering," said Dittman. "Our lead time is starting to creep out. We have to get more out of the building and invest more in our facility."

The company, which garnered a provincial Global Traders Award in 2006, has always done well in the U.S., but Dittman is encouraged that demand is coming from all regions on large commercial and institutional projects include one at the University of British Columbia.

"It's across all product lines,"...

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