What follows is not a brochure. It is a folio — drawn from the floor of the Saraf manufactory in Sardarshahar — of the place where logs become furniture, in eight measured steps, under hands and under instruments.
The manufactory is organised as a single, linear narrative. Logs enter on the west; sealed crates leave on the east. Nothing crosses its own path. Every piece of furniture moves only forward.
Every piece of Saraf furniture passes through the same eight stations, in the same order, with the same gates between them. The line is designed so a fault is caught — not carried.
FSC-conscious sourcing. Logs are graded by species, sap, knots and grain.
Three chambers, slow schedules, target 8% moisture content for export stability.
Resaw, dimension and profile. Component lists drive every cut; offcuts are logged and re-used.
Mortise & tenon, dovetails, dowels — assembled, dry-fit, then glued under clamp.
Wide-belt to 120; manual through 180, 220, 240. Edges broken by hand.
Down-draft spray for lacquers; hand-rubbed oil & wax for warm grains. 24h cure.
Two inspectors, twenty-seven checkpoints. Fail any one and the piece returns upstream.
ISPM-15 heat-treated pallets, edge protection, RH-stabilising desiccants for sea freight.
Modernity, in our shop, has only one job: to free the artisan from drudgery so the artisan can spend longer on the work that matters. These are the principal instruments on the floor.
Complex relief, precise repeat. Tolerance to ±0.1 mm.
Profile mouldings to spec — straight runs, four-side dressed.
Three-head wide-belt for flatness; manual orbital for the finish.
Pre-melt EVA with end-trimming and corner-rounding inline.
For curved laminations and veneer-press work, evenly clamped.
Cross-flow filtration for clean lacquer beds; explosion-rated lights.
Eight hundred and counting. Some have been at the bench for thirty years; some are new apprentices pulled from the first stool. Between them, they own the tolerances no caliper can read — the way a piece ought to feel under the palm.
“ The plane teaches you to listen. If it sings, the piece is right.
A working measure of the manufactory at full song. Lead times stretch for bespoke; volumes hold for catalogue lines. Both are honest.
Stated above are operating averages. Capacity is reserved per contract and confirmed at PO. Peak — Q3 — runs about 18% higher across all lines.
Our manufacturing units are SEDEX members and submit to SMETA 4-Pillar audits — the independent ethical trade audit recognised by global retailers across Europe, the UK and North America.
SMETA examines four pillars: how we treat our people, how safely we run the floor, how we touch the environment around us, and how we keep our books. The findings are filed against our member ID; you can request a current report.
Wages, hours, freedom of association, no forced or under-age work.
Floor PPE, machine guarding, fire drills, accident reporting.
Dust extraction, finish-spray emissions, waste-wood recovery, water.
Anti-bribery, transparent records, traceable timber chain.
Quality is not an inspection at the end. It is a sequence of small, stubborn checkpoints distributed along the line. Every Saraf piece passes through these — recorded, signed, and stored.
Specifiers, buyers and project teams are welcome to walk the floor — or begin with a sample piece, drawn from your spec, run through every station of the manufactory, and shipped before contract.