When producing window frames made out of aluminium one faces the decision problem to determine how many aluminium profiles of a given standard length have to be bought to fulfill production requirements. As results of the currently implemented First Fit Decreasing (FFD) heuristic were regarded unsatisfactorily, a new code-based on the column generation procedure of Gilmore and Gomory-has been developed and supplemented by a one-pass branching up procedure to achieve integrality. Algorithmic details about the integrality achievement phase as well as results obtained when solving real world cutting stock problems on a personal computer are provided. © 1990.