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The Workshop · Jebel Ali, Dubai

One roof.

№ 02 — Inside

Most of what people call “made in Dubai” is assembled in Dubai — the components come in from twelve countries. Ours doesn’t. The carcasses, the doors, the marble, the metal, the upholstery, the paint — everything except the white goods and the bulbs is made on this floor.

We tooled the factory in 2018 with twenty SCM machines and a 5-axis CNC with a 5.5-metre working bed. Since then, 130-odd kitchens, 40+ whole-home fit-outs, and one Dubai Design Week pop-up that came together in seven days.

Material selection at the Cherwell studio
Factory floor · National Industries Park · Photography brief: production-line set
7
Manufacturing divisions
20+
SCM machines
Including 5-axis CNC
120k sqft
Production facility
Reported figure · being confirmed
+30%
Productivity uplift
SCM case study · 2019
№ 01 — The seven divisions

Tap a division.
Meet who makes it.

Each section runs as its own small workshop — its own foreman, its own bench, its own shared programme with project management. Most rooms we make touch four to six of them.

  1. 01 Joinery & cabinetry
  2. 02 Veneer works
  3. 03 Paint & finishing
  4. 04 Bespoke metalwork
  5. 05 Stone, marble & glass
  6. 06 Soft furnishings
  7. 07 Design & project management
Joinery floor — kitchen production
Division № 01 of 07

Joinery & cabinetry

The largest floor by area and by headcount. Carcass-cutting on the SCM beam saw, edge-banding, doweling, drawer-runners and the careful business of squaring an out-of-true wall. Every kitchen and wardrobe we’ve made since 2018 was cut here.

Machines & tools
  • SCM Gabbiani A2 beam saw1 of 2
  • SCM Stefani edgebander1 of 2
  • SCM Morbidelli M100 5-axis CNC5.5m bed
  • Hand assembly benches14 stations
№ 02 — From raw to room

A door
in six steps.

Walk a single 720×2400 fluted walnut door through the factory — from the log book at intake to the cardboard wrap at dispatch.

№ 01 · Intake
Log & sample
Veneer logged in by leaf number; chip cut and signed off by the design team against the client’s sample board.
№ 02 · Press
Veneer & press
Substrate cut on the beam saw. Veneer laid up book-matched, pressed in two passes on the cold press, edged on the bander.
№ 03 · Mill
5-axis flute
Door taken to the Morbidelli M100. The 18mm fluting is cut as one continuous toolpath — no joins, no glue lines.
№ 04 · Finish
Oil & cure
Two coats of matte hard-wax oil sprayed in the booth, cured at 28°C for 48 hours. Re-sanded to 240 grit between coats.
№ 05 · Fit
Hardware
Concealed Blum hinges set; in-house brushed-nickel D-pull screwed on the bench against the client’s 1:1 mockup.
№ 06 · Dispatch
Wrap & load
Each door wrapped in acid-free tissue, foam-corner-protected, racked vertically in the truck. Loading sequence keyed to the install order.

The partnership

SCM Group · case study

“We picked SCM because we wanted one supplier accountable for the whole tool chain. Walking into a turnkey factory at 7am and finding everything talking to everything else is the only way we can promise a 14-week kitchen.”

— Tom Brooks, owner · SCM case study, 2019

The factory was tooled with twenty SCM machines: a Gabbiani beam saw, Stefani edgebander, a throughfeed moulder, a five-axis Morbidelli M100 CNC with a 5.5-metre bed, and a water-jet stone/porcelain cutter that opened up the marble division. Reported productivity gain: +30%. Reported space saving: +20%.

Read the full SCM case study
Book a factory tour · Wednesdays & Saturdays

Come and watch us make it.

We host two factory tours a week. An hour walking the floor with our project lead, a cup of something hot, and a quiet conversation about what you might be planning. No sales pitch, no pressure.

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