Furniture for the Olympic Village produced on Homag machines

When the world’s top athletes gather at the upcoming Olympic Games 2008 in Peking to thrill onlookers with new record-breaking sporting achievements, their tip-top condition could just have a little something to do with the Homag Group: a Homag customer of many years’ standing, the “Hong Kong Royal Furniture Group” is the exclusive furniture supplier to the 2008 Olympiad. As well as the media area and the apartments to be used by functionaries, the company will also be equipping the entire Olympic Village with furniture – including amongst others 17,600 beds for the over 10,000 single and double rooms to be used by the athletes, as well as around 14,000 sofas.
The majority of the Olympia furniture will be produced on machines and plants supplied by Homag and Holzma. The Royal Furniture Group factory boasts a large number of Holzma panel dividing saws, most of which are equipped with automatic feeding systems. A superb standard of furniture workmanship is ensured by four edge banding machines from Homag and a new machine line delivered in August 2007. Here, a feeder and one edge bander each for longitudinal and transverse throughfeed as well as a matching conveying system take care of the ultimate in production efficiency. The “Hong Kong Royal Furniture Group” founded in 1994 is one of Asia’s leading furniture producers, employing a workforce of over 4,000. The products are sold in over 2,000 of the company’s own branches.