Case studies

Gewoonweg perfecte panelen

Sinds 2017 is Pro Paneel Nederland bezig met de vernieuwing van het hele machinepark. Stap voor stap wordt elke machine vervangen door een nieuwer en beter exemplaar. Alle bewerkingsmachines worden geleverd door SCM Group Nederland, zo ook de nieuwe Stefani X kantenaanlijmer.

Rimobel

The spanish company specialising in the furniture sector has 150 SCM machines. The latest purchase is an automation system specifically for “batch 1”: the "stefani rocket" edgebanding line.

Investment in the future: Double-end tenoner for a new production line

Tschopp Holzindustrie AG in Buttisholz produces up to 6,000 shuttering panels per day, or over 1.5 million square metres of panels per year. In August last year, a new double-end tenoner from SCM, the Celaschi p60, was successfully installed. "Our double-end tenoner is part of a production line at Tschopp Holzindustrie AG and is responsible for profiling the lengthwise edges of the shuttering panels," says Daniel Ott, Country Manager Switzerland, SCM Switzerland (Rothenburg).

Perfect sanding, even on very thick surfaces

It is essential for a staircase manufacturer to achieve perfect surfaces. And that can mean only one thing: perfect sanding! To best achieve this process, Wiehl, the staircase manufacturing company, purchased an eleven-metre long "dmc system bt" top/bottom wide belt sander, that cut the cycle time by 60% and resulted in a unique quality.

Hi-tech designer kitchens, ahead of game

Maximum customisation, elegance and practicality are the key ingredients to Arclinea's success. Pioneering projects are drawn up at the Caldogno plant that involve an innovative combination of materials, colours and shapes. Attention to design and the need to perfectly frame even the profiles shaped in natural wood led this company to SCM, when it opted for a "stefani one" for Shape machinings and the "easy cart" for maximum control of the glue tanks

The choices made by Moser Holzbau

In a stunning corner of Alto Adige, the Moser family decided to merge their long-standing passion for wood with the production of "Clt" houses using state-of-the-art SCM machining centres.

Atl

Impressive. It doesn’t happen every day to see a production line churning out something like 1,200 sofas a day! With specific standards: quality to the smallest detail and safety. In partnership with Scm Group for over twenty years.

Turri

Turri is a historical company which was founded in 1925 in Carugo, province of Como, and is currently located in Brianza. It is headed by Andrea Turri, who from the beginning has chosen to produce what is often defined as “classical”, “art”, or “high style” furniture and accessories. Its motto is “The Art of Living”.

Chabros

Chabros International Group is a leading producer and supplier of wood, veneer and a vast range of products and materials for interiors and exteriors in the Middle East.

Euro Lamellé

Solomon Wu

Jake Solomon is pushing his custom-built dmc system t4 sander to the max, producing subtle surface finishes on pioneering panel products that include resin, cement, rock and wood.

Foxstow

Foxstow Joinery, established in 2011 by owner Oliver Bryan, is based in the heart of Oxfordshire on the outskirts of the village of Freeland, and provides a range of high end bespoke joinery services to both consumers and businesses.

Renovo

Ghamdi Wood

Glicerio Chaves

Klaus Hünerkopf

Etablissements Béal

Located in the Haute-Loire region in France, the Etablissements Béal company designs and manufactures specialist chopping boards for its predominantly professional clientele under its Chabret trademark that was originally deposited in 1885.

USFloors

To meet this sector’s production and specialization requirements, USFloors (Shaw Industries) needed a completely automatic line for profiling composite planks; from single sheets to the pallet ready for shipping.

Binket Group

Voglauer and SCM: tradition and innovation

The Austrian company remains faithful to traditional values whilst using advanced production technologies, notably including a broad range of CMS Balestrini machines, now also supported by robot technology.

Piero Dri

There are beautiful objects, and there are useful objects. Some sophisticated dandy came up with the theory, intentionally provocative perhaps, that an object, in order to be considered truly beautiful must have no use whatsoever.

Boris Beaulant

A true Homo Faber, with his feet firmly planted in the tradition of one of the oldest world trades and his head turned towards the future taking full advantage of the social networks. A craftsman who produces one-of-a-kind creations using SCM Group machines exclusively.

Bianca & Sons

Remo Cucine

Thanks to its use of automation, Remo Cucine cuts down machining times and offers final products of high quality and, most importantly, environmentally friendly, using non-toxic glues and water-based paints.

Ilar Verniciature

Report after report, the “Door and Window System” seeks to photograph an overview of virtuous companies that provide constantly high and homogeneous quality to closure and shading systems produced and painted in Italy. The latest innovation offered by a subcontractor with a great entrepreneurial capacity.

Unterkofler

Three generations of craftsmen are behind a small company in Grossarl. Their approach is to follow each step of the production process, from doors and window frames to furniture, from chairs to lamps and upholstery, in-house, from the design to the installation.

SCM and Legno Lab

Harris Kitchen

A versatile SCM nesting machine perfect for a range of joinery applications, is able to size, drill and rout nested panels. Brady Harris: “For each new home, I typically design, manufacture and install the kitchen, walk-in pantry, laundry, study and barbecue area.

Piemme Arredamenti

In the Tuscan countryside there is a small but forward-looking company with a clear team spirit that works on major worldwide contracts for made-to-measure furniture at the demanding, top-end of the market.

HanseYacht

Andrea Schiavolin

Andrea's activity began "working around" with his father, owner of an electrician company who transferred him the desire to use his hands to create something.

Mutti Woodshop

The carpentry business was brought to the family by the "grandfather" who in Ghedi began to build small furniture for everyday use, the furniture of the country farmhouse where the Mutti family

Roberto Marcazzan

Giulio Migani

Giulio started his carpentry business 5 years ago. He is an electronic expert, graduated in Rimini and a student for a couple of years at the Polytechnic University of Milan in automation engineering.

D3Wood

We met Marco Clozza of d3wood, a company that can not be defined with few words, but that we will try to present in this article in the most thorough and exhaustive way.

Prati S.r.l.

Rbr Ebanisteria

Marco Vignoli

Marco Vignoli worked in a company that sold tools and various machinery, including woodworking machinery and his love for the minimax universal combination machine was born there.

Michele Ferioli

Scuola d'arte Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Andrea Greco

Nord Produkt

Menuiserie Petit

3D

Simon Agencement

Thanks to regular investments and well-planned strategies, Menuiserie Simon has succeeded in imposing its superior quality on highly competitive markets and is now ready to take on new challenges.

Aquanet

Aquanet, a Russian company that today employs almost 800 people and has reached numbers that have little to envy mass production enterprises, has decided to keep on expanding its production.

Antiga

Grafiche Antiga opted for Superfici's experience and its new UV LED curing system to satisfy the high printing quality demands even on difficult papers such as material or uncoated paper.

Arnografica

Thanks to a partnership with Elmag Superfici, Arnografica fitted a UV LED curing system on the NEW TGI offset, formerly the Aurelia 520 project. The traditional offset - UV LED duo proved to be a winner.

Lorenzo Vianello

Masonite

Hasenkopf

Grandiose results are achieved when experts in their respective fields work together. In this case it’s the so called “white skin”, an interior panelling with unique characteristics used in the concert hall of the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. It was created by the Hasenkopf industrial factory of Mehring with three SCM Group “Chronos” CNC machining centres with five axis.

Zhong Zhi Xin

A new plant of the Zhong Zhi Xin company is inaugurated in China, a first step in a great 4.6-million euro project. This confirms the Group's leadership position in the Chinese market, where in 2016 it has achieved a 20% growth compared to 2015.

Montracon

Montracon are one of the leading manufacturers of top quality trailers in Europe supplying all types and the widest range of Box Vans, Curtainsiders, Flats, Double Deckers and Fridge trailers, from three manufacturing sites in Market Weighton and Doncaster, Yorkshire and in Mallusk, Northern Ireland.

Hunton Fiber

SCM Group’s specialists are always ready to respond with state of the art solutions to any technical requirement. This was the case with Celaschi and a Norwegian client.

Xylème

For more than thirty years, the company Xylème has adopted an original approach to wood-working, a profession they have followed with passion and perseverance, achieving a full understanding of the machines, technologies and tools, which makes them better able to share them with their partners.

Pantarei

Pantarei is one of the leading Italian panel processing companies that work for third parties. Meeting its owner, Domenico Londei, is like interviewing a "philosopher" in the field of furniture components: "The contractor," he says, "is at the forefront of technological research. Every day we meet with major technology producers, and out of this exchange with our partners, like SCM Group, technological progress is created".

Gautier

Established in Vendée in 1960 by Patrice and Annick Gautier, the Gautier company underwent a strong expansion in its early days and soon became a leader in the children’s furniture sector. Originality and quality are the marks of this brand.

Les Charpentiers des Alpes et Provence

“Les Charpentier des Alpes et Provence” is a company specialised in the design, research, production, machining and assembly of laminated timber structures.

Vibrobloc

At Vibrobloc, a company based in Montese, in the heart of the Apennines between Emilia and Tuscany, we met the company sales director, Claudio Leoni, to talk about the dynamic company dedicated to timber construction and the new Oikos cnc machining centre manufactured by Routech, a brand of Scm Group.

Bussi

It is always a pleasure to go back every few years to visit the Falegnameria Bussi company in Santa Sofia, near Forlì and Cesena in the Romagna region of Italy.

Gebrola

Turnkey companies, private individuals and also carpenters look to the Belgian company Gebrola of Bocholt. Managing Director, Martin De Laat, has invested in passion and know-how for more than thirty years.

Window Holding

Since its start the company has produced over five million of doors and windows. Window Holding’s range includes products in aluminium, plastic, wood and a combination of materials, which can be used in numerous types of buildings, from private homes to complex public and commercial projects.

Dilplast

Established in 1976 in Montecchio Emilia (Reggio Emilia province), Dil Plast supplies services for consulting, design and production of any type of moulds and parts for hermoforming.

Tim Butler

At Grampians Furniture (Halls Gap, Australia) a second chance... Halls Gap is an Australian town, the capital of the Grampians National Park. A lake, Lake Bellfield, a river, Fyans Creek, surrounded by a splendid natural environment.

Tona Bathroom Furniture

Tona Bathroom Furniture waits for no one when it comes to a purchase that will thrust it ahead of its peers. Like most astute businessmen, Frank Shen is not one to pass up a golden opportunity when he sees it. It took him a mere 30 minutes - from initial contact to final purchase - to say ‘yes’ to the Stefani Solution, a new edgebander offered by the SCM Group that can create ‘J’, ‘L’, and 45-degree-angle profiles.

Gamadecor Porcelanosa

From geothermal energy systems to curtain walls, from contracts to engineered flooring, from kitchens to taps and fittings, from bathroom furniture to sanitary fixtures, from ceramics to living room and bedroom furniture.

BoConcept

At BoConcept, a Danish retail furniture chain, they bring their focus to innovative and creative design and combine it with high quality in their products. That gives a challenge to their existing production facilities and that is why BoConcept invested in a new fully automated CNC-cell to meet the requirements and at the same time to develop an effective and flexible production.

Katyusha

Lesplitinvest

The company Lesplitinvest (in the Leningrad and Moscow oblast - autonomous region), is part of the SOUZ Industrial Holding Group and one of Russia’s leading MDF and interior door manufacturers. It recently purchased a second new CPC assembly and packaging line which allows high levels of productivity and minimum operator intervention.

Qumei Furniture Group

QM has recently purchased the new packaging line from CPC - a wellknown brand of Scm Group – to guarantee excellent productivity whilst minimising the operator’s interventions.

Topol Group

As Sir Richard Branson once said: “Always give it a try. And even if you fail, pick yourself up and try again". This is the philosophy that guides Nikita Semenov, vice-president and member of the Board of Topol Group, a Russian company that is now the leader on the children’s domestic furniture, offering a wide range of solutions and having significant production capabilities.

Tino Sana

A company that is intriguing not just due to its capabilities and the products it can make, but because it is a kind of “city of wood” where economic rules, attention to the territory and to young talent, sharing of values and memories all come together.

Earth Elements

Earth Elements has created a great design center for material and finish options along with a new modern cabinet shop to deliver cabinets, millwork and interiors to a wide-ranging clientele. The company is located in Southwest Montana near Bozeman, Montana.

Neumann

18 employees, a turnover of around € 1.5 million and a very special recipe: it’s good for business if you’re the owner of the wood-working workshop, handle production and also sales.

Traditional Sash Windows

Melgari

With a single machining centre boasting excellent performance, Melgari of Pescarolo (Cremona province) is still a match for a market that demands production of just a few items that have to be of top quality.

MéO

MéO has modernised the whole production process with the inauguration of the new Cugand plant (department 85 – Vendée), which has a new SCM line for doors and window frames. This investment of over 3 million euro has resulted in excellent results in terms of highly flexible productivity and volumes.

Shepley

SCM Group UK has commissioned the installation of a new Accord 25 FX CNC machining centre for Shepley – one of the UK’s leading fabricators of PVCu windows and composite doors.

Binderholz

FAL

FAL, a leading producer of wood components, introduces on its production floor a new Routech Oikos machining centre. FAL, an acronym which stands for Fabbrica Avvolgibili Lavis (or 'rolling shutters factory of Lavis'), is located in Lavis, near Trento.

CMF Greentech

How will your new home and your new furniture be built? They have been created with a new, and patented, process and materials which allows you to choose the ingredients through various ‘recipes’.

Lignotrend

Right in the middle of the Black Forest Lignotrend produces high quality wooden construction components. The famous Goûter shelter, for example, was built at a nearly 4,000 metre altitude on Mont Blanc using the reliable materials provided by the German company.

Sforzi Teak

Alessandro Sforzi’s splendid decks are the exclusive finishing touch to the most beautiful boats in the world. His is a true entrepreneurial story made in Italy, born and pursued with passion and with an enduring relationship with SCM.

Dometic Seitz

Dometic Group is a global company, providing solutions for” mobile living” within the areas Climate, Hygiene, Sanitary and Food&Drink. The mission is making mobile life simple. The company group who 2015 had a turnover of 11 billion SEK, have appr. 8 000 employees and production in 22 countries.

MDP

In Nantes we visit a company specialised in fitting commercial vehicles. MDP has focussed in this sector with 6 SCM work centres, purchased between 2004 and 2016. “After training as a joiner, I was looking for an idea to fulfil myself”, explains Pascal Dabireau, company manager. “I therefore leased a part of my father’s plant to develop a range of products to fit commercial vehicles.

Wiehl, Brunner, Pahl

The triumvirate of the title is not one of the infamous magistratures of ancient times but a contemporary group of individuals. We are talking about three capable entrepreneurs of Bingen (close to Sigmaringen), which share common interests, despite their different origins.

Internorm

Internorm is the European leader in the production of doors and windows and known internationally for its ability to offer innovative solutions to the most demanding customers. Since it began in 1931 the family run company is based in Traun, Upper Austria, has produced over 23 million doors and windows.

Superfici America Finishing Line

In today’s competitive global market, making your manufacturing process more efficient by implementing automation is an absolute necessity to stay competitive and successful. As companies incorporate high volume, complex, automated finishing lines, a key component to the successful operation is state-of-the-art control systems allowing for pre-programmed “recipe” selection and part tracking.

Wang Mei

“The search for a bright future” with an SCM Group maxi system for doors and windows. This is the meaning of “Wang Mei”, the name chosen for Wang Mei Wood Window, a company owned by China ITD Investment Co. Ltd., a true giant of the Chinese glazing industry.

De Win

In order to last, cooperation has to be built on solid foundations and requires constant, daily commitment. That is how the partnership between Belgian company DE WIN, specialised manufacturer of doors and windows, and Scm Group began.

Shatura

The company, set up in 1961, is currently the leader of the Russian furniture market. Since the nineties it had developed a strong partnership with SCM, that was further strengthened in 2013 with the installation of the important Splitter edgebanding line for panels.

Fabbrica Mirlachova

The exemplary story of Andrey Mirlachov, a “self-made man” who has created a model company, employing 250 people, producing state of the art, high quality furniture. A man with very clear ideas: “In terms of technology I only want the best”, which naturally led him to SCM.

Møbeltre

Håvar Tandstad, an industrial entrepreneur, has been using SCM Group machines exclusively for 16 years and was one of the first buyers of the Morbidelli Author M100: "This machine meets my needs for flexible production and for saving time and space."

Sandi Mobili

Magic? Yes perhaps there is a pinch of magic: a piece of furniture that opens, a sofa disappears revealing a wall with shelves, containers, LED lights and a comfortable bed. All with a simple movement, no effort and a lot of style.

Fratelli Minotti

At Fratelli Minotti every design request and requirement is made possible thanks to the individual skills and SCM technology. The company, located in the heart of the Brianza, works as a subcontractor for the most important furniture factories.

Natuzzi

The largest Italian furniture company maintains its masterly mix of advanced technology and craftsmanship. The innovations in the production process have led to the Moving Line, derived from lean manufacturing, which features a state of the art SCM cpc semiautomatic packaging line.

Joubert

The day begins early, after a good coffee and a journey through the French region of the Charante. We are here to visit Joubert Plywood, a company specialised in producing poplar and okoume plywood.

Garnica

The Spanish Group produces high-quality plywood panels and has adopted an environmentally friendly policy based on the use of sustainable plantations. It recently installed in its Fuenmayor plant a new high-tech cell system for panel finishing equipped with Superfici and DMC solutions.

Ciam

If there is a “genius loci” an ugly object could never be produced by Ciam of Petrignano. The company is set in the green plain between Bastia Umbra and Petrignano. Looking up on one side there is the white Assisi towering at the feet of the Subasio, on the other side there is Perugia’s Acropolis.