'Chiniot can become world class furniture-making centre'

Chiniot has the potential to become a world class furniture manufacturing centre, Dario Corbetta, head of the Italian Furniture Manufacturing Association (ACIMAL) said here on Tuesday.
Talking to mediamen after visiting Pakistan's five major furniture clusters, Corbetta said Chiniot could prosper and develop into a furniture manufacturing centre of world repute if the cluster was to incorporate better working conditions, quality workmanship, specialised and hand-held machinery and especially contemporary design.
Corbetta currently visiting Pakistan to explore avenues of collaboration as well as possibility of setting up a woodworking institute in Pakistan similar to the one set up in the Indian city of Bangalore.
Corbetta's visit comes in the wake of a benchmarking study tour to Italy by a 15-member Furniture SWOG (Strategy Working Group) delegation comprising furniture manufacturers from Chiniot, Gujrat, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Gujranwala.