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.