Andreu World will open a new production center in September 2021

With an investment of 24 million euros, the future factory is a firm commitment to Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.

Andreu World – international manufacturer of contemporary design furniture and National Design Award recipient – has broken ground of the new production center in Spain, which adds to the existing factories in Valencia (Alaquàs and Chiva) and Navarra (Eulate).

The new plant’s goal is to expand the furniture manufacturing capacity and be able to double the current installed capacity, automating production processes to improve the competitiveness of the products manufactured by the company, which are currently marketed in more than one hundred and twenty-four countries.

With an investment of twenty-four million euros, this new factory, located in the Polígono Más de Baló, Ribarroja del Turia (Valencia), will be 26,000 m2 on a 50,000 m2 industrial site.

The project will be completed in mid-2021, and the plant will be operational in September. Once complete, Andreu World will have an industrial site area of 290,000 m2 and with 133,000 m2 of built facilities. The building will consist of a raw materials warehouse, two industrial manufacturing warehouses, a finished product warehouse, and Andreu World distribution center. The new facilities will represent a corporate space of international reference in design, engineering, and production, housing the international testing laboratory and the group’s R+D+I area for the development of new sustainable designs and materials.

Care for the environment

The new plant will have advanced production and quality control technologies adapting manufacturing to Industry 4.0 criteria and improving productivity through logistics automation and process robotization, in harmony with the woodworking tradition, trade, and technical mastery of Andreu World’s productive human organization. The new center will have a robotic storage system that will partially automate logistics and optimize warehouse space and capacity, reducing loading, unloading, and supply times to the merchandise plant.

The new facilities are being built, following criteria to preserve the environment and will have the latest technologies that allow sustainable energy consumption and efficient use of resources. The company operates under a Comprehensive Sustainability Plan, with the main focus being the Sustainable Development Goals established in the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

Within this plan, the company has a firm commitment to continue leading the sector in sustainability. The goal is for all Andreu World designs to be in a circular economy by 2030. To achieve this, the investment effort in R+D+I has been increased, developing our own innovative and sustainable materials and fabrics that are already a reality and that have been presented in the new 2020 collections. In 2020, the company – National Design Award recipient – has celebrated its 65 years of business experience. It is committed to creating good designs to provide inspiration and innovation to all architects and interior designers in the world and to be a world leader in seating and tables made with passion and a contemporary lifestyle. Today, the brand is present with its designs in one hundred and twenty-four countries, thinking about the future and inspired by the best tradition.

With a firm commitment to the transmission of innovation and design values, it works with internationally renowned designers and architects. Throughout its history, it has been awarded with outstanding international awards such as Red Dot Design Award, Best of NeoCon, Wallpaper Awards, the German Design Award and the National Design Award. Good design, production capacity, and commitment to sustainability are also its hallmarks.

Andreu World has promoted a culture of environmentally responsible production that allows it to manufacture its products only with wood from certified and reforested forests of its own cultivation and carrying FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification.

In addition, it annually organizes the International Design Contest, which has twenty years of experience and has become one of the longest running and most prestigious international competitions. More than thirty thousand contestants from one hundred and four different countries have participated.

The Status table collection, recognized with Good Design Awards and Interior Design’s Best of Year for the best conference table.