There is a strange silence in the factory at the moment. You almost jump when a machine is switched on. Most of the team is busy installing on site, leaving only a few hands to manufacture. At our work site, things are manic. Against the constant background noise of bulldozers landscaping, jackhammers breaking stone and our woodworking machines, the team is scurrying around, measuring, sawing, hammering, sanding. The pressure is on to deliver, and to deliver to the client’s expected…
Running for cover in Booysens
There is a drought. We fear the rain. Not that we don’t like farmers or enjoy rising food prises. It is because our factory’s roof leaks like a sieve. In fact, calling it a roof is quite generous. Its certainly made of corrugated iron and it goes over your head. But, alas it is only a roof in name. Cherryhill Woodcraft spent the first 18 years of its life in the same factory. In the beginning, owner David Meyerowitz,…