PICANO INSTITUTIONAL

FURNITURES
INTRODUCTION
In 2007, Picano a Singapore based company(exporter to over 56 countries)with a turnover
worth in excess of US $25,00,000 entered in the Indian market through a joint venture with
Creatica as a sole distributor of the institutional furniture mainly school furniture. Their
vision is “to become an integrated global furniture company engaged in the production and
marketing of innovative office furniture, school furniture and institutional furniture
products”. Their mission is enhancing their market share across India and is to become a
global company over a period of time. Their dealers are spread across India and are
competent to guide their valued customers regarding the products that will best suit their
needs, ambience, budget and nature of business. Currently, they have two manufacturing
centres located at Greater Noida and Bangalore to look after their PAN India business.

MANUFACTURING PROCESS- GREATER NOIDA PLANT

This manufacturing process consists of seven different stations from where the goods have to
pass through which the raw material entered finally comes out as a finished product. They use
three types of raw materials that are:
1. MDF(Medium Density Fibre) Board
2. Particle Board Furniture
3. Rubber Board
The manufacturing process in the plant is as follows:
1. CNC(COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL) ROUTER
This machine is used to give the required shape to the raw material by programming the
system of the machine. It is able to create any shape or design as per the requirements of the
end customer. The machine is equipped to produce 2D and 3D designs as well.
In this process, initially we provide a program to a machine control unit which is finally
transferred to the processing equipment of CNC machine.

2. PANEL SHAW
It is used to give different cutting angles to the raw material from both the sides-upward and
downward. There are two blades which can move in different direction to create different
angles to the WIP product.
3. HOT PRESS MACHINE
At this stage heated adhesive is used to attach the edges to all the sides of this WIP. This
process is also known as the edge-binding process.
4. ROUTER MACHINE
At this stage the corners and the edges are moulded to more of a round shape. These kind of
shapes are safer from the perspective of injury for the school children who are the major end
users of their products. There is also a set of different blades which can be used to mould the
sides in varied shapes.
5. MULTI BORING MACHINE
At this stage this machine is used to bore multiple holes to the WIP. In this machine we can
bore holes from both horizontal and vertical angles. This machine reduce the chances of error
and also improves the efficiency of the entire process by reducing the time of drilling.
6. EDGE TRIMMING MACHINE
Now in this process, the excess residuals of the WIP are removed from the edges. This step
helps in giving a better quality to the user friendliness of the product.
7. POST FORMING MACHINE
At this stage the lamination material is heated up to 130 degree celsius and moulded to all the
parts of the WIP material. Initially the lamination material is stiff and for the ease of the
process of effective moulding of the lamination such high temperatures are quintessential.
This enhance the durability of the product.
8. ROUND TRIMMING MACHINE
Once the edges are trimmed in the previous step , there are still remainders of sharp edges
which can be harmful to our end users. Hence, this machine is used to give a round edge
shape to the final product.