Modern Cabinet was founded in 1945 by David Schor and two other
partners. Mr. Schor's father put up the seed money for this new
enterprise, as well providing an old stable on 125th Street in New
York City as a site for the new company to work from. By 1960, the
two partners were gone and Modern Cabinet was supplying many builders
in the NY metro area with their kitchens. The factory (no longer
a stable) had been expanded to include two adjacent buildings.
In 1971, urban renewal moved Modern Cabinet out of NYC to Mt.
Vernon. During this period, Mr. Schor's son Andrew joined the firm.
Andrew is the current chief officer for Modern. Also during this
period, Modern's customer base started shifting away from multi
family builders toward upscale private residentials.
In 1984, Modern moved to its current location in Poughkeepsie,
NY. Poughkeepsie is located in the Hudson Valley about 60 miles
north of NYC and 50 miles south of Albany, NY. The production facility
has grown from 15,000 square feet to over 40,000 square feet. With
state of the art production equipment, Modern Cabinet produces 30
to 40 cabinets a day. All panel products are cut and machined on
two American made CNC routers. Finishing is done on a DeBurg conveyer
system with halogen ovens to bake and cure the finish.
In 2000, faced with growing sales, and the loss of several key
employees, and limited space, management decided to outsource the
production of doors. The philosophy of producing our components
from raw materials and having full control of the manufacturing
process was difficult to give up. All the advice, that was offered,
was to concentrate on our strong points and outsource items that
others could do better. Our strong points were our ability to process
panel goods and finishing. Companies that produce thousands of doors
daily obviously will be able to make doors more efficiently and
of better quality than we who were producing 20 doors daily. Using
three of the largest door manufacturers in the United States, we
have been able to offer our customers a much larger selection of
choices then we were ever able to producing the doors internally.
