Neat Manufactures for Distributors to Distribute

January 2008

This is Mr Bendy’s way of...

...detoxing after his Christmas excesses.  Getting into one of Neat’s heavy cold presses is every bit as good as wrapping himself in seaweed and has a magic effect on pent-up toxins and much else.  However, before he becomes entirely detoxificated by the squeeze he wants to scream at you about the pressing service at Neatpress.   This service started in March 2007 and is also called Neatbond because Mr Bendy is a friendly fellow.  Last month he didn’t know where he would land.  Well he does now!   Warning: children are advised not to emulate Mr Bendy.

 Meet Paula Jermy, in house sales manager for UK

Paula distinguished herself at the company Christmas lunch by corralling us into her jolly present giving game: “Secret Santa”.  This is a game for children of all ages with a long provenance in the Low Countries and Spain.  There “Sinterklass” otherwise called St Nicholas leaves Spain to arrive in Holland on the eve of his feastday which is 6th December.  He dispenses the presents which he has made on behalf of the donors who are not known to the recipients.  In November Paula supplied us with an envelope containing a sheet of wrapping paper and a label with the name of one of the Neatgang.  Each of us opened the present at the lunch table accompanied by much mirth – well done Paula!

Paula fields enquiries, takes orders, coordinates production, arranges the delivery service, sends invoices and ensures they are paid.  Woe betide any late payer, even if you are a fellow Tottenham Hotspur Supporter!

 Solid Neatmatch – Oak Veneered Neat Match...

 ...is not to be contrasted with “hollow” Neatmatch.   Neat could never be accused of making hollow products!   Except that Neat specialises in scooping bits out of sheet MDF and turning said scoops into enormous quantities of dust!  But this “solid” Neatmatch is solid because its oak veneered surface is interrupted in the long axis by decorative “tongue and groove” appearing Neatmatch profiles which have been machined into solid oak inlays.  It comes 9 and 18mm thick.  In the application shown, the joiner has most skilfully incorporated this material into a kitchen island.  It is available through all branches of Wm T Eden (marketing@edens.co.uk) and Anglo Welsh Timber (sales@anglowelshtimber.co.uk).  Wm T Eden branches are in Corsham, Dunstable, Frindsbury, Liskeard, New Milton and Norwich; Anglo Welsh are in Newport and Cardiff.

 Neat’s flexible, kerfed, formable products...

Neat started out making 6mm Neatform.  This is the thinnest product and is a sheet of Medite MDF kerfed on one side.  It is a modern development of the age-old process which carpenters have used for converting a piece of flat timber into a malleable form which can be formed into a permanently curved shape. Finding a single word to describe the properties of these products has always been difficult.  Usually “flexible” is the word that comes to mind.  The trouble with “flexible” is that someone playing with the material may want to believe that it is “infinitely” flexible as is a hinge.  These products are not and will break when flexed many times.  They are made to be flexed into an intended shape and secured in this shape.   This principle applies to all the products but rather less so to the bonded materials which include the Neatflex which is bonded to PIP and plywood.