Along with their Polish agent, Artech, Schuberts have just installed a new custom-built, dual-use finishing system for Nawrocki Group, Bochnia.
The Nawrocki Furniture Company was founded in 1991 and has grown to be one of Poland’s largest and highest quality manufacturers of furniture, bar fit-out and bath pods.
In its first years, it was dedicated to manufacturing single pieces of home furniture for retail clients. It only took a decade for the company’s portfolio to change, as implementation of interior furnishing for public buildings, such as hotels, restaurants, banks, office buildings became its dominant element.
Production abilities of the company, which was capable of manufacturing furniture that reached the standard of both two and five star hotels, made the investors from the hotel branch a main target group of F.M. Nawrocki.
Numerous implementations throughout Poland left the way clear for the services expansion into the French market in 2002. The high aesthetic and functional standard of furniture, foolproof logistics of the business, and the knowledge of French legislation, were the reasons why, in 2005, The Nawrocki Group Company was awarded with The Silver Medal for The Best Service offered on the French market, given by the Polish Trade Organization.
By 2015, F. M. Nawrocki have furnished more than 200 high standard hotel buildings across Europe (including 150 hotels in nearly 100 French cities), obtained regular references from the Orbis hotel chain, and successfully intensified its services in Anglophone markets.
The sister company Nawrocki SDB was founded in 2013 and it is the business based on manufacturing and installing prefabricated bathroom pods using wood and GRP substrates.
One of the bottlenecks of such successful and rapid growth was the spray processing and finishing of furniture and GRP bath pods. Drying times, variation in ambient temperatures, types of specialist paints and lacquers etc, all contributed to a complex and unique production request.
With the Nawrocki production being split between both flat panel and 3D carcass production lines, they needed a flexible high-volume system capable of meeting the very highest quality levels of finishing.
Thankfully, after analysing the problems, running tests at another Polish customer, Schuberts had the answers!
A dedicated flash-off zone was designed to not only take wet product from the manual spray shop, but also to accept, via a special outfeed conveyor, wet product from an automatic panel spray machine.
This dual-use installation not only means that high volumes of product can be coated and cured in record time, but the quality is kept to its absolute maximum.
Once the product has ‘flashed-off’, the trolleys and carcasses are loaded into a Schubox gas catalytic infrared curing system at 40c for around 30 mins.
After drying inside the Schubox, the products are removed, either denibbed for the next coat or sent directly to packaging.
What used to take three days, now takes just hours!
For more information on finishing systems, manual and automatic, email sales@schuberts.co.uk or for Poland email poczta@malserw.pl.
