So, what’s new at HWI?
So, what’s new at HWI? Let me answer that for you! In the last month we have hired two new employees to work in the shop. This will help us manufacture more smoothly without the production workers having to skip around to multiple machines and positions too much during the day. The second thing that happened is we took a …
HWI Approved Holiday Gift Guide 2021
A Lufkin tape measure – We have personal experience with these as the photo shows, we loved giving out these branded tape measures to ensure everyone could enjoy them as much as us! Makita battery powered handheld vacuum – an essential in the tool bag of every installer and handyman, your clients will thank you for cleaning up after yourself! …
Updates from HWI
This past month we have had a few new things going on, here’s a quick outline: we received and installed our new edgebander, have started the long process of switching to a new system for scheduling and material tracking, and have received more price increases on our white melamine, and Formica laminate. All of these things (except the price increases) …
News from HWI
This month we have a few new things happening here! Our new edgebander is arriving on the 10th, with installation on the 17th. We are very excited to be getting new machinery, as this will reduce our downtime for repairs that we had on our old machinery. But along with the good there is usually some bad. That bad happens …
Manufacturing Report
The month of August has brought us yet another increase in the demand for manufacturing. This makes it the 15th consecutive month of growth in the manufacturing economy. This is good, but also has negative effects. Not to be the pessimist here, but these negative effects are obvious even to the minimalist consumer. Shortages of raw materials, extraordinarily long lead …