feathertlite

FEATHERLITE
Featherlite group was founded in 1965 about 43 years ago. Featherlite is one of the leading furniture manufacturing & marketing organizations in India. This company mainly deals in manufacturing office furiture for all segments of the market. They mainly expertise in manufacturing and marketting and cost effective customized office furniture such as modular work stations, chairs, partitions, desks conference tables educational, lab & retail furniture and fixtures etc.
Our visit to this factory gave us a good learning about the various stages involved.
The first stage – raw materials are received from different suppliers. They are in the form of pre – laminated boards. Then boards of desired thickness are cut into shapes and drilled by power machines. Then edge banding is done in banding machines .They avoid edges from being sharp .The glue used in this process is hot bent glue. Now the surface or parts of furnitures are ready and now they are wrapped securely in stretch wrapping machine.They are wrapped with lamination sheets to avoid scratches will transportation(delivery). There are two different cutting machines Straight cutting machine and mutlti spindle drilling machine. First one cuts straight and not curves.The later can route ,drill cut at angles at same time.(cnc machine) You also have metal work.CRCA- cold role closed annealed of thickness 1.5mm to 2 mm. Folding machinesSalvagini machine – punching,bending Shearing of metal sheets(used for partitions of work stations)