Drawer Box Specialties Grand Prairie Tx
November 2010 Characteristic Story
By Matthew Fite 
Drawer Box Specialties (DBS), headquartered in Orange, Calif., employs a total of approximately 100 employees who manufacture the firm�south custom products.
Orange, Calif.�Drawer Box Specialties (DBS) manufactures just what y'all would recall � drawers.
Only this visitor, headquartered here, with an boosted production plant in Grand Prairie, Texas, also makes custom items that roughly fit that category � and beyond.
DBS purchases 495,000 board feet of lumber per year in Difficult and Soft Maple, Red and White Oak, Birch, Mahogany, Walnut, Carmine, Ash, Hickory, Hackberry, Alder, Anigre and Bubinga.
DBS products are used by clients in many means. One Drawer Box Specialties customer built units that hung on the wall outside hospital rooms. In these devices were kept the patients� charts and supplies for physicians and nurses. According to Cathy Blankenship, president of DBS, this was a �drawer,� in that information technology had iv sides and a bottom.
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| Cathy Blankenship, president of Drawer Box Specialties. |
When DBS got involved, information technology allowed the customer to efficiently supply hospitals with these devices. �It kept him busy for near 8 months in 2009, which is saying something in Southern California given the current economic situation,� Blankenship added.
Another client built a box-similar structure that had a flash unit included. Dentists use this item in taking pictures of patients� teeth. The client congenital these units in his garage, and the task was very time-consuming. When he hired DBS to manufacture these drawer-similar items, the work went faster and the client could accuse his customers a fraction of what it had been costing him. The orders were ready to be picked up from DBS in seven days. �Over the years,� Blankenship said, �we�ve built thousands of these pieces for him.�
The bulk of DBS� work would be divers every bit drawers � fabricated for cabinets, desks and chests-of-drawers.
Merely the visitor is flexible and capable of more. �In that location aren�t whatever limitations every bit to what nosotros�ll practice,� Blankenship said.
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| DBS purchases 495,000 board feet of lumber per twelvemonth in Hard and Soft Maple, Red and White Oak, Birch, Walnut, Cherry, Ash, Hickory and Alder. |
DBS manufactures dovetailed, doweled, nailed and specialty corner and angle drawers for cabinets, piece of furniture, store fixtures and specialty applications.
Blankenship�s father, Glen Blankenship, started the company in 1987. Glen worked for a heavy equipment company only had a longing to build. He earned his general contractor�southward license and began making room additions. He moved on to home building, then to commercial work.
In edifice structures for people, he institute that in that location was a demand for quality cabinetmaking. He added that function to his business organization in the mid-1980s. As he was building cabinets, he noticed that drawers were a critical component. So Glen�s line of piece of work narrowed down from construction to cabinetmaking to manufacturing drawers.
His daughter Cathy said her father and mother, Jeanne, built up the company past �blood, sweat and tears.� Cathy joined the company in 1994 to aid with a computer projection. Xvi years later, she says, she�south still there. She has been with this company through its biggest growth and changes, she said.
Some years, DBS has grown 200 to 250 percent � up until 2009.
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| DBS purchases more Maple and Oak than other forest. 80-v percent of the wood the company buys is Hard or Soft Maple. |
DBS has a wide base of clients so that no ane visitor represents more than than 1 percent of its overall clientele.
DBS recently provided drawers for a retail store concatenation. Information technology likewise does work for restaurant bondage, hospitals, residential customers and others. The bulk of the work rotates between custom residential and commercial work.
�DBS is the largest custom drawer manufacturer in us,� Cathy said.
Glen is company founder and CEO. Doug Carmichael is vice president of sales. Mark Schwartz is controller. Greg Madrigal is product manager. Mark Saenz is customer service manager.
Customer service and quality are acme priorities at DBS. All materials are checked and documented at every stage of the materials handling and production process. Cathy Blankenship said that when a cabinetmaker is set up for drawers to be delivered, he has completed all other aspects of the project and needs on-time delivery to forbid his client from being inconvenienced.
DBS has about 100 employees betwixt its two locations. Amid them are many highly-skilled workers, some of whom have built cabinets on their ain.
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| In add-on to highly-skilled employees, DBS credits top of the line equipment every bit disquisitional in the production of quality items for clients. |
Among equipment used is a Weinig moulder, TimeSaver top and bottom planer/sander, Viet broad chugalug sander, Schelling panel saws, Homag edgebander, Fletcher foiler, Tiger Stops, Saw Stop table saws, Dodds dovetailers, Gannomat & Koch tedious and dowel insertion and others.
�One cardinal,� Cathy said, �has been that equipment purchases are never taken lightly. Glen has always been extremely thorough in doing his homework and due-diligence, making sure what we bring on board will work for the states and achieve the quality standards nosotros look and efficiency rates.�
She said her male parent also has highly modified some pieces of equipment and designed and built others from scratch, to make the products that DBS� customers need.
DBS is a fellow member of the Woodworking Plant, the Texas partition of the American Woodworking Constitute and the Woods Component Manufacturers Association. Two employees are LEED-certified and DBS is FSC-certified.
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| This wooden kitchen pantry pull-out is an example of the custom work performed at DBS. |
Source: http://www.millerpublishing.com/FullFeatureStory.asp?ID=583&Publication=1