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PANELS & PANEL PROCESSING
INSPIRED Zapkut does it again!
RECOGNISED as the INSPIRE
Awards Micro Business of the
Year in 2009, Zapkut Ltd has not
rested on its laurels. A keen
focus on innovation and global
marketing in the three years
since then has born fruit in the
launch of new products and
signing up of new customers
and dealers around the world. It
is fitting, therefore, that the
company was in November
named the INSPIRE Awards
2012 Small Business of the Year.
The Awards are one of the best
established and most prestigious
in the UK. Keith Bunker, managing
director of Zapkut, based in
Hampshire, was in enthusiastic
mood: “It’s a huge honour to have
won two INSPIRE Awards,” he
observed.
“We have worked hard to build
a business as robust and productive
as our saws, so we are delighted
with this formal
recognition of Zapkut’s success.”
Competition was especially
fierce this year, with the most
closely contested awards being
those for Service Excellence and
Small Business of the Year, making
Zapkut’s success in the latter category
even more noteworthy.
A timber, plastics and metal cutting
systems specialist, Zapkut has
created a range of high quality vertical
panel saw solutions, designed
in particular for operators with limited
workshop space or needing
mobile cutting capability. Much
design effort has been invested to
create robust, easy to use, accurate
machines at prices within the
means of smaller businesses.
“We have taken a proactive approach
in the light of the recession,”
Keith noted. “We recognise
the need for businesses of all sizes
to reduce costs while maintaining
or improving their capabilities:
Zapkut saws give you more for
your money.
“Zapkut has built a comprehensive
range of sheet cutting solutions
for the smaller operator,” he
continued. “We’ve listened to signmakers,
joiners, cabinetmakers,
kitchen and bathroom fitters and
other craftsmen, gained a clear
understanding of what they actually
need, and focused ruthlessly
on delivering those features at
prices they can afford. We are
proud to be able to offer proper,
industrial-grade vertical panel cutting
solutions at a very competitive
price.”
Zapkut’s sheet cutting solutions
include the ZK range, believed to
be unique, that can be folded up,
making them what is believed to
be the world’s only truly portable
vertical cutting platforms, and the
ZM range of European space-saving
moving column style vertical
panel saws.
Cutting sheets range in size
from 8 ft x 4 ft (2.5 m x 1.25 m) to
10 ft x 7 ft (3.1 m x 2.1 m).
Both ranges are enjoying enthusiastic
take up from the woodworking,
signmaking and other
sectors.
Gaining in popularity and competitiveness
each year, the INSPIRE
Awards are one of the UK’s leading
regional business awards. The
Small Business of the Year award
was sponsored in 2012 by local
radio station Kestrel FM, one of
nine stations owned by Celador,
the light entertainment company
best known for the Oscar-winning
film Slumdog Millionaire and the
popular TV series, Who Wants to be
a Millionare? Zapkut’s award was
presented to managing director,
Keith Bunker, by Celador’s chairman,
Paul Smith.
Zapkut
Tel 0118 970 1950
Email info@zapkut.co.uk
www.zapkut.co.uk
Managing director of Zapkut Ltd, Keith Bunker (left) receives the
Small Business of the Year Award at the INSPIRE Awards 2012
from chairman of Celador, Paul Smith.
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