Office Furniture Industry Finalizing Sustainability Standard
A new national sustainability standard for office furniture makers could become a template for other industries to use in developing their own guides for building efficiency into their processes. Herman Miller Inc. President and CEO Brian Walker, in a recent interview, said the standard allows manufacturers already involved in sustainability to go even further, while [...]
Furniture makers mull moving back home
Furniture maker Carol Gregg got some puzzled looks when she went looking for a U.S. factory to make her Chinese antique reproductions.
Like Gregg, many furniture makers are finding it hard to return, primarily because of steep factory start-up costs and lack of skilled labor. The credit crisis that began with failing mortgages but has now [...]
Redgrave’s furniture honour
The Achievements of Olympic medallist Steve Redgrave will be celebrated when one of High Wycombe’s leading furniture makers builds a chair in his honour.
Stewart Linford, a furniture craftsman, had wanted to mark the 2012 Olympic games with a chair incorporating Olympic logos and signage.
However, the idea fell apart due to a lack of cooperation from [...]
Furniture Makers Are Getting Creative
Steel prices up 300% during the last five years, experts say, and 50% in the last nine months alone have already affected industry players such as Leggett & Platt, which makes furniture swivels and coil springs. The Missouri company has had to raise prices on some recliner mechanisms three times in as many months. “Metal [...]
Majestic walnut Victorian sofa
Price: $9950.00
Circa: 1870
Dimensions: 45″H x 67″W
Finish: Good original
Majestic walnut Victorian sofa signed “Hunzinger NY Patented March 1868,” Hunzinger was one of the most innovative furniture makers of the period and this sofa is one of his finest examples. It features extensive carvings, turned stretchers and applied carved rosettes. Black lacquer and gilt were used to [...]
Cebu furniture makers consider South Africa as export market
APART from tapping upscale market segments in Europe, Russia and the Middle East, furniture exporters in Cebu are also considering venturing into the South African market.
Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation Inc. (CFIF) president Eric Vincent Casas said the group is eyeing South Africa as a growing market for its products, since there are already Philippine-made products, [...]
Furniture making competition
THE New Forest Trust is once again running a national competition for people training to become quality furniture makers.
This competition will give trainee wood craftsmen the opportunity to make a name for themselves, as the Furniture first prize, kindly donated by international company INEOS, is for ï¿¡1,000.
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