Polish carpentry forging ahead

It is mostly western countries that Polish carpentry companies are flooding with their products. This is about furniture making. They are family businesses where skills are passed on from generation to generation.

The people with knowledge of furniture making swamp such countries as Germany, the Netherlands, or Great Britain with offers. The list continues, of course.

We are becoming very competitive for Europeans when it comes to furniture making. Today, Poland is the world’s fourth furniture exporter, with the amount of 8 billion euro per year. Currently, we make up losses from what was two decades ago.

Polish furniture making is one of the few branches that year after year reaches very big profits with no effort. All thanks to vast export.

Statistically, a Pole spends around 40 euro for furniture in a year, while for a German it is 400 euro. The 10-fold difference gives Polish carpentry companies considerable profits. In Western countries furniture is replaced every 6 years, while in Poland more or less every 20 years. Here in the country furniture has to be functional, while in the West furniture items are elements of continually evolving fashion and style.

Furniture industry is the first one in Poland that blazed a carpentry trail to Europe. This shows the challenges faced by the domestic producers who want to manufacture and export furniture. Unfortunately, one cannot merely invest and grow one’s production plant, but also needs to think of new styles and fashion that changes every day.

The strongest Polish managers are competent in meeting simple goals. However, they need workers or co-operators with whom it will be easier to come up with good and effective solutions so that no mistake is made. Polish carpentry needs to become European, or otherwise it will not achieve such successes as in the recent years.

The recent years’ success is caused among other things by a crisis in Germany, where Schieder (top European furniture maker) collapsed, and by the takeover of Conforama (the biggest French furniture maker) by South African Steinhoff Group. This opened the market for other, smaller manufacturers from the industry.

One of Polish companies, Forte, makes furniture in every colour available. The client buying furniture does not need to worry about getting a piece of furniture in a different colour or a reply that it is not possible to make something. Forte is one of the bigger furniture makers in Poland.

Delivery period in the company is 5 weeks maximum from placing the order to its shipment to, e.g. Spain. The client may communicate in their native language without any problem, as there is a call centre team who speak any language.