{"id":11172,"date":"2018-02-13T23:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2018-02-13T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:33:19","slug":"signie-month-axis-cnc-routered-innovators-russell-thorogood-leon-pryce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/signie-month-axis-cnc-routered-innovators-russell-thorogood-leon-pryce\/","title":{"rendered":"Signie of the Month | Axis CNC Routered Innovators | Russell Thorogood &#038; Leon Pryce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>In 2001 Axis CNC Routered Innovations was established by a couple of magnum young guns in their 20\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0Although they are more like colt 45\u2019s with silencers today, owners Russell Thorogood and Leon Pryce still are running a state of the art routering and manufacturing service\u00a0and\u00a0have never looked back&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only time they ever took the opportunity to looked back was to reflect on the premises they moved from, as this is their 4<sup>th<\/sup> time on the move.\u00a0\u00a0The reason they have moved again, is because their business is continually growing and I am sure there wouldn\u2019t be many sign companies in NZ that don\u2019t deal with these guys.<br \/>\nTheir latest move to Irongate Road in Hastings is a new 2000 square metre purpose built premises and being the forward thinking duo they are, the factory is solar powered to completely run their factory when the sun is shining and when the sun ain&#8217;t shining they make their own beer for the Friday night functions .. What a work place!<br \/>\nThey pride themselves on getting it right first time and on time with no product they can\u2019t cut or completely manufacture.\u00a0\u00a0They manufacture to the marine and furniture industries also, but supplying signage to the sign industry is their core business and wish to continue that way.\u00a0\u00a0They have 4 CNC routers and 2 CNC lasers, plus countless of other bits of gear and toys.\u00a0 13 staff help to run and assist the day to day running of this business and if they employed two more people they could field a rugby team, wouldn\u2019t surprise me!<br \/>\nAxis is a mad supporter for the industry from supplying our golf trophies for our golf day to supplying materials for letterheads and Letterhead trophies and always being part of our Conferences, Awards and Expos,\u00a0there wouldn\u2019t be many Expos where these guys haven\u2019t been present. They have won countless awards as suppliers to successful signies at the NZSDA Awards nights.<br \/>\nLeon is a mad keen fisherman and Russell is just as mad with jet skiing (probably routered their own boat &amp; jetski).\u00a0We wish Axis all the best in their new premises and hope this is the last move for some time.\u00a0 Good Signing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001 Axis CNC Routered Innovations was established by a couple of magnum young guns in their 20\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0Although they are more like colt 45\u2019s with silencers today, owners Russell Thorogood and Leon Pryce still are running a state of the art routering and manufacturing service\u00a0and\u00a0have never looked back&#8230;&#8230; The only time they ever took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}