Pictured L-R: Peter Ložar, the Major of Trzin (Ljubljana), Giuseppe Cavagna, the Italian Ambassador in Slovenia, Giacomo Ricciotti, the Director of Italian Trade Agency - ICE, Lorenzo Trolese, Country Manager of SCM Adria, Gabriele Patti, Commercial Director of SCM, Pietro Gheller, Director of SCM Wood Division, and Umberto Turchetto, CFO of SCM Adria.
SCM's new subsidiary in Slovenia – SCM Adria – has officially opened. The launch of this new subsidiary is aimed at providing a direct, punctual and highly specialised sales and service support to woodworking businesses in Slovenia and Serbia. The SCM team will also work in sync with dealers in Croatia and Bosnia and will be a benchmark for the entire Balkans area.
The official ceremony with ribbon cutting took place on 26th September in the presence of local dignitaries, including Giuseppe Cavagna, the Italian Ambassador to Slovenia, Giacomo Ricciotti, the Director of Italian Trade Agency (ICE) and Peter Ložar, the Mayor of Trzin.
The event welcomed hundreds of visitors: businesses, professionals and stakeholders from all over the Balkan region, as well as from other neighbouring European countries, proof that the headquarters has a strategic geographical position.
On 24th and 25th September, the Grand opening was preceded by two days set aside for wood/furniture training centres, in line with SCM’s wishes not only to provide direct, punctual commercial and technical support to customers and dealer partners, but also to help bring the new generations closer to the profession by providing machinery, software and digital services for highly qualified and constantly updated training.
The Headquarters is the perfect location for networking and testing new innovation and digital transformation trends: more than 1600 square metres with two Technology Centers, one dedicated to artisan joinery work and the other to bespoke industrial production and design with a varied range of solutions to machine the panel and solid wood; more than thirty machines are on display overall and are all connected; a Digital Corner where one can discover the numerous digital services offered by SCM’s Maestro connect IoT platform, including the new proactive and predictive technical advisory assistance service, Control Room which makes the most of advanced AI technology and the many years of experience clocked up by the SCM service team to prevent any malfunctioning or machine downtimes in advance.
The headquarters also has a Training Room to host software courses, including SCM’s new MES to control the factory’s IT flow.
The partnership with local clients, leaders in the market, who provided flooring, furniture and furnishing accessories entirely manufactured with SCM solutions has also been important.
The branch’s team has been working since January 2024 and includes technicians and sales engineers highly qualified in application fields of secondary wood processing and SCM will continue to invest throughout 2025, adding new professional resources to support clients and partner dealers.
“The concept and structure behind the new Slovenian branch perfectly reflects the group’s vision: to develop a long-standing, continuous and shared relationship with the client, and to support the needs not only throughout the machine’s entire life cycle but for the entire duration of their entrepreneurial activity," says Pietro Gheller, Director of SCM Wood Division. "This can be achieved not only thanks to technology - which still lies at the core of SCM’s experience - but by offering an ecosystem of software, services and skills with a very high added value”.
