The sudden coming out of aluminium panel sheet furniture, including aluminum windows and doors, encourages people a lot in the industry. Indeed, with overwhelming advantage of environmental materials and long service life, aluminum furniture is likely to have further and quick development in the market. The fact, however, turns out not to be so optimistic. Like any other newly born beings, aluminium panel sheet furniture must go over several barriers before getting really mature.
Lack in industry standards proves to be an inevitable barrier for aluminium panel sheet furniture. It’s essential to establish regulating rules about products, manufacturers, market and consumers at the beginning period of a new industry. Only in this way can positive competition be formed. The whole industry will focus on quality improvement and technological creation rather than unreasonable competition like lowering price by reducing quality and cheating consumers.
According to the author, there are two ways to found useful and practical rules for aluminium panel sheet furniture industry. First, straighten out current problems existing in the industry, like using aluminum panel of low quality or cutting processing steps to reduce cost, and make corresponding regulations by an universal association of the industry. Second, make rules to avoid problems that are possible to happen in the future. When you have no idea about working out a problem, borrowing always turns out to be a wise choice. Wooden furniture industry, after decades and even hundreds of history, has developed a series of systematic rules including designing, quality standards, purchasing skills, processing steps, inspection and experiment etc, in which there are specific clauses about log processing, ingredient processing as well as thin board sticking processing. These rules help decision makers to establish integrated regulations for the industry of aluminium panel sheet furniture. Generally speaking, the industry should aim to found basic rules about quality judgement, processing level estimation and after-sale service such as maintenance, recycling etc.