Homag delivers complete production facility in tight time frame for Decorative Panels Furniture


01/03/2011
Homag delivers complete production facility in tight time frame for Decorative Panels Furniture With origins tracing back to 1907, the still privately owned Decorative Panels Group has evolved form a local cabinet maker and coffin manufacturer into a group that operates three totally autonomous and yet vertically integrated businesses serving the flat pack furniture market. Its mission is to manufacture and supply quality, innovative and cost effective paper foil laminated board and panel components within Europe.
In November 2009 the furniture company of the Decorative Panels Group invested in an additional facility to satisfy increasing demand for its flat packed furniture ranges. With the customer base in place, they had to convert this empty factory into a fully operational, automated production unit inside six months. This was a daunting task because not only did they have to source a supplier to design, manufacture and install all the high tech machinery, but also they had to carry out significant building work on the interior of the factory shell.

		Decorative Panels Group had developed a vision Decorative Panels Group managing director, Malcolm Forward, takes up the story, “With this new facility we had a very clear idea of what we wanted to create. Geoff Rossiter, our production manager, along with the management team had developed a vision of exactly what we needed to drive the business forward. More information