Hurtado completes high-tech facility
By Powell Slaughter -- Furniture Today, October 7, 2001
Valencia, Spain — High-end Spanish case goods and upholstery manufacturer Hurtado has completed a 200,000-square-foot, high-tech plant and warehouse here.
The company expects the additional capacity to lead to faster turnarounds, higher production and the ability to expand distribution quickly.
Next year the company will move its offices and showroom to the building, which encompasses 300,000 total square feet.
"We are thrilled about the new factory and what it will mean to our customers," said Ana Hurtado, vice president of High Point-based Hurtado USA. "It can produce three times as much furniture with the same number of people, which means much greater efficiency and shorter backlogs."
The plant, which has a completely robotic warehousing system, is divided into three sections — production, finishing, and storage and shipping — each with its own bays for receiving materials and its own storage space. Pressurized finishing rooms keep dust from reaching other parts of the building.
The entire facility has "intelligent doors" that open and close when a person or one of the conveyance robots approach them.
In shipping and storage, robots control the entire process of receiving and storing finished pieces.
Design details at the plant include a three-degree angle on loading docks to help roll furniture onto trucks, and the positioning of generators, air conditioning and other equipment and systems outside production areas to ensure continued work flow in case of a breakdown.
Company President Francisco Hurtado also asked architects and designers to pay particular attention to environmental issues in designing the plant, which recycles 95% of the water it uses and cleans the other 5% before discharge.
Hurtado also has a 150,000-square-foot plant, a 100,000-square-foot distribution center, and three smaller plants in the Valencia area.
—As first reported in eDaily
| In addition to a state-of-the-art manufacturing and warehouse facility now up and running, this building will hold Hurtado's corporate offices when the company relocates headquarters next year. |
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