Mobart 85 serves the most popular design brands around the world with exclusive and sophisticated furnishing solutions: tables, chests of drawers or magazine stands, you can always see a peculiarity when you visit the showroom of the company based in Inverigo (Como), in Brianza, a famous region for furniture production: the great care for details.
Originality and quality are a real mission. Giuseppe Caslini has been guiding the family business with passion since 1985, after helping his father Renzo for some time. The company was actually established much earlier, in the 1940’s, when grandpa Mario started the production of furniture in a small workshop. Today, Caslini is supported by his sisters Betty and Maria and his nephew Daniele, representing the fourth generation that is already playing an active role in “Mobart 85 Factory”.
The business runs on two parallel tracks, with a unified focus on high-end customers: on one side, the company is a subcontractor for high-level furniture manufacturers, selling 80 percent of production all over the world on behalf of some of the most popular brands; on the other side, they manage a comprehensive service for interior decorations and custom products, from design to delivery, especially for single houses, tailor-made to meet the specific requests of customers and architects.
“Our customers – Giuseppe Caslini said – have become more and more demanding. They ask for a quality product, accurately controlled, they require shorter and shorter delivery deadlines, and they also want us to work in “batch one” and “just-in-time” mode. So, we need increasing flexibility and speed, while preserving our high-quality standards.”
These challenges are even more difficult for a company that makes everything in house. “We start from an executive project or rendering, which is then engineered and developed for production. We get into the details of each part that makes up a piece of furniture,” Caslini added. “Then we send everything to production and manage the process with a software to trace the entire production flow with strict quality control: from the woodworking shop, where we carry out the manual operations that distinguish a handicraft business like we are, the product moves on to the drilling and milling centers, then to sanding and polishing, and finally to the assembling and packaging areas, where it is labeled and shipped to the customer”.
How important is technology?
“In the past few decades, we have improved some plants with the acquisition of new more performing machines. At the same time, we have also acquired next-generation 3D software to improve production management, taking care of every detail. With the new technological solutions adopted – the Mobart 85 owner continued – we can create an optimal product with shorter cycle time. During these years, with these machines controlled using Industry 4.0 methods, we have increased our productivity by 20 percent at least.
The “dmc system” sanding machine is the latest purchase from SCM: “This is an essential machine for us, as it allows to improve panel sanding operations, both for raw and for lacquered panels,” Caslini said. “As it offers high performance using multiple operating units, the dmc machine can process and sand even slightly concave cabinet doors and carved wood furniture without scratching the panel”.
With this sanding machine, Mobart 85 has improved the quality of this process phase, while also acquiring very interesting orders.
The “dmc system” offers multiple features with high potential: a cross infeed unit with 9,500 mm belt development to sand across the grain or to create a special sawcut effect; a large-diameter roller unit; a superfinishing aggregate with electronic sectional pad and differentiated pressure control; an exclusive planetary unit for variegated sanding solutions; and finally, two brushes, a “Tynex” and a “Scotch brite” unit.
“I chose SCM because their solutions offer more advanced technology – said Caslini, who had already purchased two working centers before the “dmc system”, namely a “morbidelli m800” and an “accord 25 fx”. “I am not just referring to the technical features of the machines and working centers, such as the automatic worktables offering higher performance compared to other technologies, but also to their construction, which I have always taken into consideration before making any investment: how the machine is built, how it is operated, cleaning, tooling… For all these details, SCM had the better of other competitors.”
The company also appreciated the opportunity to visit the Surface Tech Lab of the Rimini-based group in Villa Verucchio, to test the “dmc system” together with the SCM experts. “We had a live demo of all the most important panel operations, including complex ones. The SCM experts supported us with these tests, and I really appreciated this opportunity, as it helped us make an informed choice.”
It’s no surprise that, for a company that is so keen on the details of its own production, details make a difference.
SCM: ONE-STOP PARTNER FOR SURFACE PROCESSING
With their longtime focus on surface treatment, SCM soon realized that it could offer a unique value by expanding its portfolio with the finishing technology of Superfici, creating synergies between sanding, coating and lacquering.
With this extensive and solid know-how, SCM can offer a wide range of sanding solutions by Dmc, pressing technology by Sergiani and coating systems by Superfici, delivering comprehensive products, solutions and services for exclusive and sophisticated finishing operations, meeting all process requirements and covering all types of end products.
