Panawood Mulya Industry produces high quality wooden furniture, bothcontemporary and traditional, for export from a modern factory inBandung on the island of Java in Indonesia.

The furniture is made of solid wood and is assembled. It is for indooruse and covers, bedroom, dining and living areas. There are 5 rangesand a total of more than 100 items. Merkusi pine is the main timbersource but other local woods such as sungkai,munchang and bayur areused. A range of finishes including lacquered,waxed and painted areavailable.

The site is 4.4ha with existing production areas, finishing plant, kilndrying facilities and warehousing occupying 12,500m2. Timber is driedin 3 temperature-controlled chambers made in Italy. There are also woodworking machines made in Italy and Germany and other machinery fromJapan, Taiwan and China.

Production capacity is 1000 m3 a month and 268 people are employed.TheCompany was established in March 1998 and was initially a supplier ofknockdown furniture to IKEA in Sweden, Kay-elin the USA and severalJapanese importers. In 2002 it began to supply high qualityreproduction furniture to the UK and this has become its most importantmarket. However, the Company is also developing export markets in USA,Europe and Australia and exhibits at furniture fairs in Singapore, UK,Australia, USA, and Germany