A four-sided moulder takes sawn timber to a finished profile in one pass, and it is bought when hand-fed machining stops keeping up with the order book.
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Yes, and four-siders are among the best-regarded assets in woodworking finance. A Weinig, SCM or Leadermac moulder is written as a hard asset on hire purchase or finance lease, and used machines fund comfortably at twenty years and beyond because demand from timber merchants, joinery shops and pallet makers never disappears. The catch is the tooling and grinding side. A moulder is only as good as the cutterheads and the knife grinder feeding it, and that equipment is often quoted separately. Get the grinder on the same order, because funding a Rondamat on its own afterwards is awkward and unnecessarily expensive.
Used kit: Yes, Weinig machines fund comfortably at twenty years and beyond
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Business asset finance is quoted on a flat rate, so that is what this shows — with the equivalent APR underneath, because the two are not the same number. A quick guide only; your actual rate depends on the asset, term, deposit and lender.
Representative example: on Hire Purchase, borrowing £25,000 over 48 months at a 6.0% flat rate (equivalent to 11.5% APR representative), you would repay around £646 a month; total amount repayable approximately £31,000, of which £6,000 is the cost of finance. This calculator is for illustration only — it is not a quote or an offer of finance, and the rate and repayments you are offered will depend on the asset, term, deposit and your circumstances. CW Asset Finance is a credit broker, not a lender, and may receive a commission from the lender that funds your agreement. All finance is subject to status, affordability and lender approval. CW Asset Finance is an Appointed Representative of Rural Finance Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 630701).
Funders regard Weinig in particular as blue-chip security. The machines are enormously heavy, serial-numbered, exported readily and still command real money after two decades, so underwriters can see a genuine exit and will take a longer view on age than almost any other woodworking asset. That puts these deals with mainstream bank-owned lessors as well as specialist funders. Larger multi-spindle machines with automatic setting move into full-underwriting territory. The problems come from scope rather than the asset: a quote heavy with tooling, a spares package and a year of grinding wheels dilutes the security. Separate the moulder, the grinder and the consumables into their proper places and the case reads far better to an underwriter.
Examples of the machines we are asked to fund. This is not an exhaustive list — if what you are buying is not here, it does not mean we cannot fund it. Your supplier quote is what the agreement is written against.
| Machine | What it is |
|---|---|
| Weinig Powermat 700 | Four sided moulder for joinery production |
| Weinig Powermat 1500 | High speed moulder for large timber output |
| Weinig Unimat 300 | Moulder for profile and section work |
| Weinig Hydromat 23 | Heavy moulder for sawmill and flooring lines |
| Weinig Cube | Four sided planer for quick timber dressing |
| Weinig Rondamat 960 | Profile grinder for moulder tooling |
| SCM Superset NT | Four sided moulder for general joinery |
| SCM Superset XL | Larger moulder for mouldings and flooring |
| Leadermac Compact 623 | Value four sider for smaller timber shops |
| Leadermac Smartmac series | Moulders for growing joinery businesses |
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Timber merchants with a machining department, joinery manufacturers producing skirting, architrave and cladding, and flooring or decking producers. The trigger is volume: hand feeding a planer and moulder separately cannot meet the delivery dates, or a contract for a specific profile has been won. Businesses bringing machining back in house after years of buying finished profiles are the other common buyer.
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Bought on hire purchase, business plant and machinery normally qualifies for capital allowances on the full cost even though you pay for it monthly, which is a large part of why hire purchase is the common structure. On a finance lease you generally set the rentals against profit instead. The rules change between budgets and your position depends on how you trade, so treat this as the direction of travel and get your accountant to confirm the detail before you commit.
Yes, and you should. A Rondamat or equivalent profile grinder is a capital machine in its own right and funds well when it appears on the same order as the moulder. Bought six months later it becomes a standalone deal for a fraction of the value, which is the most expensive way to acquire it. Plan the tooling room at the same time as the moulder.
Older than you would expect. Twenty-year-old Powermat and Unimat machines are funded regularly because they still sell readily and still work. The questions will be about spindle condition, whether the feed rollers and bed have been maintained and who refurbished it. A machine sold through a specialist dealer with a warranty is easier than a direct import.
Firmly hard. It is heavy, identifiable, has an international second-hand market and does not become part of the building. That is the best category to be in for pricing and for the willingness of funders to look at the case. It also means age matters far less than it would on an electronics-led machine.
Usually yes, where you own it outright with no agreement against it. A Weinig sitting on your floor represents real value and refinance releases some of it, typically to fund another machine or to ease working capital. The funder will want the original invoice, evidence of clear title and normally an inspection or a full set of photographs.
A moulder generates a very high volume of chip and shaving, so the extraction is not an afterthought. Filter units, ducting and often a silo or briquetter get specified with the machine. Where the supplier includes them in the project quote they fund as part of the package. Fixed silos and building-mounted plant are the part that needs more careful structuring.
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