CASE STUDIES

NARBUTAS partners with Configura to expand global growth by developing a CET Extension, meeting dealers and design firms where they work.

For more than 50 years, NEDCON has led the way in steel storage systems. NEDCON is headquartered Doetinchem, Netherlands with manufacturing in Pardubice, Czech Republic and global branches across Europe and the United States.

Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, KOKUYO aims to enrich the world through its products including office furniture and stationery. KOKUYO is the first company in Japan to adopt CET, launching its Extension in January 2020.

For over 70 years, Kimball International has created design-driven furnishings that have helped its customers shape spaces into places, bringing possibility to life by enabling collaboration, discovery, wellness and relaxation.

After being on the Configura platform for nearly 25 years, Martela decided to migrate to CET in 2018. Martela chose CET because of the rich history between our two companies and because CET could enhance Martela’s entire sales process.

With a 40-year history, AJ Products is a prominent player in the Nordic and European markets. Primarily known as a “catalog company” – offering everything from pallet racks to copy paper through its online catalog.

Maars was looking for a tech company with previous experience working with walls because specifying walls quickly can become very complicated. Only a few months after the initial meeting, the project to create Maars’ CET Extension, Maars 4D, took off.

Marbodal – the first customer on the CET platform – is a Swedish kitchen manufacturer whose salespeople have used CET since 2004. Committed to meeting end customers at the right time in the buyer journey, the team at Marbodal decided to invest in a supplementary online drawing tool.

Global furniture company Sunon Group Co., Ltd., headquartered in China, first learned of CET when talking to customers overseas who offered product catalogs via various software solutions. Sunon Group looked into the benefits of CET and officially became a Configura partner in 2016.

Steelcase has revolutionized the way its dealers sell products. Today, nearly all Steelcase dealers in North America use CET along with the proprietary Extension, SmartTools, as the total solution for their design and specification needs.

Spacesaver was one of Configura’s first customers in the United States. The initial contract was signed in 2001; today, over 300 people around the world use Configura software to specify Spacesaver products.

Midmark’s desire to put rules into place made them especially interested in Configura and the concept of Parametric Graphical Configuration. The ability to build in rules to handle many different configurations and conditions was exactly what the company was looking for.

Troax is a market leader for metal-based mesh protection panel solutions used in machine guarding, warehouse partitioning and property protection.

Kvik, a manufacturer of Danish-design kitchens, wardrobes and bathrooms, released its CET Extension, Kreator, in 2017. Today, more than 750 Kvik sales and back-office staff use the Extension.

Based out of Lewisburg, Tennessee, Talos manu-facturers components for the parcel packaging industry. In 2019, Talos partnered with Configura to develop a solution that would let its customers design systems faster.

For over 65 years, Kimball International has created design-driven furnishings that have helped customers shape spaces into places with its family of brands: Kimball, National, Kimball Hospitality, David Edward and D’style by Kimball Hospitality.