A Guide to E.W. Hannas’s Custom Woodworking Capabilities
Wood has been prized as a key construction material since ancient times. Today, it continues to find application in modern manufacturing operations as it is used to craft everything from industrial boxes and crates to children’s blocks. The process of making these parts and products is known as woodworking, and it can utilize a wide range of techniques and technologies to turn the raw material into a functional or decorative item.
At E.W. Hannas, we are proud to have carried on the history and tradition of custom woodworking for over 100 years. In addition to maintaining a vast catalog of wood-based components and products that are found in hundreds of industries and applications across the globe, we continually invest in new machines, supply chains, and sustainability efforts to ensure we can continue to roll out new solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s customers. Below, we highlight our custom woodworking capabilities.
Buttons, Plugs, & Biscuits
Biscuits, buttons, and plugs must be built to tight tolerances to ensure they fit in their designated holes. As a specialized supplier of high volumes of precision wood parts and products, we have what it takes to manufacture all of these components to your exact specifications and standards. We can make CQ or CCA-treated plugs up to 3 inches in diameter and any length for filling core samplings, composite wood biscuits for furniture assembly, and various buttons and plugs.
Our button, plug, and biscuit product capabilities include:
- Bungs
- Fluted dowel pins
- Joiner biscuits
- Screw hole buttons
- Spiral groove dowel pins
- Tree plugs
Wood Handles
Handles can serve both a functional and decorative purpose in woodworking applications. That’s why we put in the effort to make beautifully crafted wood handles that allow for a tight ergonomic grip and add value to a wooden piece. We can custom make handles in any shape or size for indoor or outdoor and houseware or hardware use. Various options for stains, varnishes, imprints, and hardware are available to ensure we can match your functional and aesthetic needs.
Our wood handle product capabilities include:
- Fan handles
- Ferruled handles
- Finished handles
- Flat handles
- Pole handles
- Turned handles
Crates & Boxes
Boxes and crates can be used as a simple containers and/or a marketing opportunities depending on their design and construction. We offer a variety of assembly methods, hardware options, and customization capabilities to allow you to tailor your boxes and crates to have the look and feel you want.
Our crate and box product capabilities include:
- Candy Boxes
- Food Crates
- Ring Boxes
- Tea Boxes
- Wine Boxes
- Custom wood boxes and crates
Advertising Novelties
Customized novelties are a good way of getting your brand out there. By distributing wooden products instead of plastic ones, you can market your business without contributing to the growing plastic waste crisis. We can add your company logo or message to thousands of different wood products or ship out the products for you to imprint yourself.
Our advertising novelty product capabilities include:
- Golf tees
- Imprinted wooden eggs
- Keyrings
- Pens
- Tokens and “nickels”
- Toys and trinkets
Wood Crafts
The wood crafts industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. Equipped with carefully crafted tooling and standards, we can make the high-quality, competitively priced products and packaging you need to succeed in this industry.
Our wood craft product capabilities include:
- Balls and blocks
- Beer flights
- Cutting boards
- Display racks
- Miniatures
- Picture frames
- Shapes
- Slats
- Split handles for grills
- Tool handles
- Wedges
Flag Parts
E.W. Hannas has supplied wood flag parts to the largest United States flag manufacturers since the 1940s. We have a dedicated team of hundreds of workers who focus on providing quality flag components reliably and quickly.
Our flag part and product capabilities include:
- Bases
- Brackets
- Eyelets and grommets
- Finials
- Flag poles
- Flag sticks
- Two-piece flag poles
- Other flag accessories
Food-Safe Products
Food-related products are subject to strict requirements and restrictions that ensure the food that comes into contact with them continues to be safe for consumption. All food-related products produced at E.W. Hannas meet and/or exceed these specifications and standards. We aim to comply with the highest level of direct food contact suitability that wood parts and products can offer.
Our food-safe product capabilities include:
- Corn dog sticks
- Drink stirrers
- Ice cream sticks
- Kitchenware
- Ornamental picks
- Skewers
Dowels & Dowel Pins
Dowels and dowel pins play a critical role in many pieces of electronics, furniture, and machinery. By joining two separate pieces of material, they help hold an assembly together. If need, they can be made strong enough to withstand use in heavy-duty applications.
We produce dowels and dowel pins at the highest standard in the world. We can make them in a range of sizes and with various tips to suit different applications. This quality and customizability, combined with our competitive pricing, make us a leader in this product market.
Our dowel and dowel pin product capabilities include:
- Color-coded dowels
- Craft dowels
- End bored dowels
- Engraved or imprinted dowels
- Pointed dowels
- Slotted dowels
- Stained and finished dowels
- Tenoned dowels
- Apple sticks
- Cosmetics & healthcare components (cotton tip applicator, cuticle sticks, make-up sticks)
- Ladder rungs
- Marshmallow sticks
- Mop handles
- Pennant sticks
- Poles
- Skewers
- Stakes (sod stakes, plant stakes)
Custom Wood Products
The above product list is not all-inclusive. The woodworking experts at E.W. Hannas can accommodate requests for a broad selection of other standard and custom wood products. We can take your product concept from initial design to prototyping to market distribution, all while ensuring it is customized to be unique to your company.
Our custom wood product capabilities include:
- Custom veneer and finishing options (including furniture-grade)
- Custom moldings beginning from a CAD drawing or product sample
- Custom turning with manual and automatic lathes
- Custom boxes with the ideal dimensions and appearance for your brand
Contact E.W. Hannas for Your Custom Woodworking Needs Today
Looking for a partner for your custom woodworking project? E.W. Hannas is here to help! Companies have turned to us for their woodworking needs since 1918 when we set up shop in Manhattan. We now boast the strongest consortium of wood manufacturing plants in the world, which enables us to deliver high-quality wood parts and products for a diverse range of industries and applications.
Most of our products are available in both standard and custom sizes, with further customizations available depending on the item. We also offer container and pallet rates to keep prices affordable and blanket orders for customers requiring a consistent supply. Whatever your project, we are dedicated to making woodwork for you.
Contact us today to learn more about our product capabilities or discuss your project specifications with one of our team members.