Ciao Berto, the company in Kosovo specialising in the production of luxury furniture, has strong sentimental ties with Italy and this is clear even from the name selected by the Krasniqi family that founded it and has been running it for over twenty years, with one success story after another. It is a passion for Made in Italy, for the high standards of quality typical of the most renowned manufacturers of Italian and European design. It is the trust placed in top-quality technology for machining wood that comes from the shores across the Adriatic Sea. But it is also a bond that goes way back to when the founder Ejup Krasniqui worked in Italy, in Veneto in a bakery owned by a man called Berto who was to remain in his heart forever.
Ciao Berto recently inaugurated a new 12,000 m2 warehouse which joins the 9,000 m2 one exclusively dedicated to sofa production. For the new plant Krasniqui, who had worked for many years with leading German suppliers, chose to change partner and put his who trust in SCM technologies thanks to the invaluable consultation support received from the Italian Group's team and its dealer in Kosovo, Si.mac. After visiting the SCM industrial centres in Italy, the owner of Ciao Berto was in no doubt and selected a wide range of solutions that would cover almost all his production processes. It is mostly furniture boxes that are produced in the sizing cell, consisting of a "gabbiani p" beam saw with a three-axis automatic storage, "flexstore elr". The cell benefits from all the advantages of these two SCM solutions: flexible cutting and productivity increase by up to 30% in the case of the panel saw thanks to the exclusive FLEXCUT unit; optimised management of panel stacks of different sizes and colours and complete traceability thanks to the automatic labelling, in the case of the automatic storage, with a considerable increase in productivity and a significant reduction in management costs.
There is also a "gabbiani gt2" stand alone panel saw operating at the plant. It guarantees excellent standards of finishing quality, dedicated to the production of special batches, mainly on solid-wood panels or ones that are thinner and more delicate. The production of cabinet doors is done on a "morbidelli n100” nesting cell, this too powered by the storage, which results in greater productivity. The “morbidelli m100” "All-In-One Technology" CNC machining centre for drilling and routing has made a fundamental contribution and Krasniqui chose to place it alongside a specific solution for drilling: “morbidelli ux100”. Some of the most popular advantages include the opportunity to produce specific furnishing parts with the standard operations of a numeric control machining centre, but with even greater flexibility. It is also possible to perform personal machinings, of a single amount and with no set-up times, for the production of kitchens such as toe kick, left and right-side routing, fan extractor passages, spotlight holes, etc. All this, thanks to the tooling available on the machine of an electro-spindle with tool change. This allows for a reduction in the time it takes pieces to pass through that before were machined in several stages. The painting line is the plant's jewel in the crown. Like the most valuable things that are kept under a crystal display cabinet, the entire Superfici spray range is jealously kept in an attractive glass box. This integrated solution can deal with the entire finishing process, and stands out for its production versatility, guaranteeing sublime applications both in the case of small production batches and when producing in series, while keeping costs down. Queen of the range is the automatic Superfici Compact 3R sprayer: despite its small size, Compact 3R is a guarantee in terms of quality and application smoothness, thanks to the robust double reciprocator fitted on precision lines. Furthermore, Compact 3R keeps a keen eye on the environment thanks to the overspray recovery system that helps reduce waste and maximise productivity.
The drying system was designed so the customer can select varying uses of different paints, ranging from the most traditional to the UV water-based ones.
The latter is controlled by a UV Superfici Poliedra dryer, perfectly designed for the three-dimensional polymerisation of the paint with minimum energy consumption.
The system's versatility, the high production flexibility and the opportunity to change all the machining parameters quickly, were the reasons that convinced Ciao Berto to not only buy the Superfici range but to place it centre stage in the production plant.
For the final assembly stage of the furniture, the company bought the "action tf" electro-mechanical presser that can achieve 300 assembled pieces of furniture per day, guaranteeing an excellent end quality. In the case of packaging, the solution selected was the "cut c100" automatic punching machine for cutting and just in time production of a cardboard box to the size and shape required.
The most recent purchase is a “stefani” industrial edgebanding cell that is perfect for flexible machining with standards of high productivity and high precision and quality on all types of type of panel and material. For the processing of marble and glass, the company also chose two CMS solutions, from Scm Group as well.
Krasniqui says he is extremely satisfied with the performance levels achieved with SCM technologies and the service received from the Group and Si.mac. The strong tie between Italy and Kosovo continues in the name of innovation and more sophisticated design.
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