I am considering opening a company to produce and sell kitchen cabinet
doors and drawers to custom cabinet companies. I want to produce a
line of doors and drawers that will allow cabinet makers to make the
boxes themselves and then use our doors for the complete project. I
want to produce the minimum number of sizes possible, while still
allowing users to complete entire kitchens AND bathroom vanities from
my line. I need:

8 Door Sizes
4 Drawer Sizes

These sizes would need to be sufficient to complete MOST kitchens in
the most commonly accepted sizes currently available.

Brainfreeze,

If you count all kitchen shops from factories to neighborhood garages
(many of whom do excellent work, BTW), there must be thousands. You
might want to narrow your search down to higher volume producers.

Try contacting the following organizations to see if their mailing
lists are available (usually for a fee):

Source: Laminating Materials Association
        http://www.lma.org/misc/assn_list.htm

   American Furniture Manufacturers Association
   P.O. Box HP-7
   High Point, NC 27261  
   Phn: 910-884-5000
   Fax: 910-884-5303
   http://www.afma4u.org/

   Architectural Woodwork Institute
   1952 Newton Square West
   Reston, VA 20190
   Phn: 703-733-0600
   Fax: 703-733-0584
   http://www.awinet.org/

   Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association
   2680 Horizon Dr. S.E. Ste. A-1
   Grand Rapids, MI 49546 
   Phn: 616-285-3963
   Fax: 616-243-1011
   http://www.bifma.com/ 

   Canadian Plywood Association
   735 West 15th Street
   North Vancouver, BC V7M 1T2 CANADA
   Phn: 604-981-4190
   Fax: 604-981-4196
   http://www.canply.org 

   Hardwood Plywood and Veneer Assn.
   P.O. Box 2789
   Reston, VA 22090 
   Phn: 703-435-2900
   Fax: 703-435-2537
   http://www.hpva.org 

   Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association
   1899 Preston White Drive
   Reston, VA 22091-4326 
   Phn: 703-264-1690
   Fax: 703-620-6530
   http://www.kcma.org/ 

   Manufactured Housing Institute
   1745 Jefferson Davis Hwy. Suite 511
   Arlington, VA 22202 
   Phn: 703-558-0400
   Fax: 703-413-6621
   http://www.mfghome.org

   National Assn. of Home Builders
   1201 15th St. N.W.
   Washington, DC 20005-2800 
   Phn: 202-822-0200
   Fax: 202-822-0559
   http://www.nahb.com/ 

   National Association of Store Fixture Manufacturers
   3595 Sheridan Street, Ste 200
   Hollywood, FL 33021
   Phn: 954-893-7300
   Fax: 954-893-7500
   http://www.nasfm.com

   National Kitchen and Bath Assn.
   387 Willow Grove St.
   Hackettstown, NJ 07840 
   Phn: 908-852-0033
   Fax: 908-852-1695
   http://www.kitchenet.com/assoc/nkba.htm 

   Woodworking Machinery Industry Assn.
   5024-R Campbell Blvd.
   Baltimore, MD 21234-5974 
   Phn: 410-931-8100
   Fax: 410-931-8111
   http://www.wmia.org

If you haven't done so already, float your idea past the professionals
who participate in the Fine Homebuilding "Breaktime" and Fine
Woodworking "Knots" discussion forums:

   Taunton Press Forums
   http://www.taunton.com/pages/forums.asp

Thanks,
Huntsman

Brainfreeze,

My apologies: I meant to post the above comment to your other question:

   Q. Kitchen Cabinet Makers
   https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=59607).

The basic approach would be the same for both, though.

Huntsman

Thanks a million Huntsman.

There are several standard size boxes for kitchen cabinets. They range
from a 9" box (sometimes 6") to 27" boxes in 3" increments. A
full-faced door would be the size of the box with other doors/drawers
being approximately 2-1/2" smaller than the box. Using these sizes you
could have any as big a cabinet as 60 inches wide. Vanity cabinets are
generally 30-1/2 inches high while kitchen cabinets are 34-1/2. Upper
kitchen cabinet doors range in size from 12" high to 42" high with a
standard height of 30" for most cabinets and 12 to 15" for over the
sink and refrigerator cabinets.