Production
Three thousand square metres of board.
Every working day.
Everything Orpak makes begins as a stack of panel. What happens between that stack and a sealed carton is the whole business: cutting, edging, machining, finishing and packing, at a rhythm that has to stay identical from the first panel of an order to the last one, forty weeks later.
It starts with the panel.
Chipboard, MDF and laminated panel in E1 class, bought to a written specification from audited suppliers and checked on arrival for thickness, flatness, surface and moisture. Everything downstream inherits whatever this material is, which is why it is the one line we never buy on price alone.
Cut to the millimetre. And to the metre.
Automated beam saws work from an optimised nesting plan: the parts of a programme are laid out across the board so the offcut is as small as the geometry allows. The tolerance on part number one and part number four thousand is the same. That is what lets a repeat order behave exactly like the first one.
The edge is where discipline shows.
Automatic edge banding with continuous adhesive and temperature control; the band is applied, trimmed and buffed in one pass, matched to the surface it sits against. It is the most-handled centimetre of any piece of furniture: the first place a buyer's hand goes, and the first place a shortcut would be visible.
Holes cut to the fitting, not to the drawing.
Drilling and CNC work from the hardware list: pattern, depth and diameter machined for the fitting that will actually go in, with routed profiles and reliefs added in the same flow. It is why a drawer that runs cleanly on our line runs cleanly in a flat in Rotterdam, assembled by someone reading a diagram.
One roof, one flow.
25,000 m² under roof running one continuous flow from the board store to the packing line. Scale is not a boast; it is what makes a promise keepable: enough capacity to take a container programme and deliver it on the agreed week, at the agreed specification, for as long as the programme runs.
