Traditional hardwood furniture expects excellent quality
The new standard "General Technical Conditions for Mahogany Furniture " will be implemented from August 1 this year
Business News Agency, June 7: On August 1, this year, the new national standard "General Technical Conditions for Mahogany Furniture " is about to be implemented. Compared with the mahogany national standard first formulated in 2000, this version of the national standard appears more detailed and clear.
The industry believes that every time the formulation and revision of the mahogany standard, whether it is a national standard or an industry standard, is a result of continuous improvement in the face of new changes in the industry and the market, and it is also a demand for the development of the industry itself. Every small step now may be a big step to promote the continuous improvement of the entire industry in the future.
Shot in "chaos"
New standards will promote market regulation
Facing the chaotic redwood market, the introduction of the new national standard may be a dose of "heart-strengthening agent" to make it more standardized.
"The mahogany market has always been a piece of fat. There is deep water here." The head of Beijing Oriental Shenlong Redwood Furniture Company, which has been engaged in the mahogany business for more than ten years in Beijing, talked about mahogany with a mysterious and helpless look. How deep is the water in the mahogany market? Even after so many years of work, the person in charge admitted that he is getting confused. Compared with before, there are many ebony, red sandalwood, green sandalwood, purple black sandalwood on the market now, and it is unclear what kind of wood it is.
Mahogany, as a kind of furniture raw material, is not a specific kind of furniture, but a collective name for rare hardwood furniture since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which belongs to China's only definition. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, following the definition of rosewood in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China began to have a first impression of rosewood.
In recent years, the price of mahogany furniture has skyrocketed. A common set of hard wood tables and chairs is only a few thousand yuan, while the market price of a set of redwood sandalwood rosewood circle chairs is as high as more than 100,000 yuan. If it is the rare Hainan Huanghua Pear on the market, it is the price per kilogram, which is as high as 10,000 yuan. The huge price gap has caused many businesses to find ways to climb the high branches of rosewood.
According to industry sources, many furniture manufacturers now mix and match ordinary wood with real mahogany wood, using real mahogany veneer on the surface. The proportion of ordinary wood materials is around 70%, and some even as high as 80%. The true mahogany is only 30%, but at most it is only 40%. Although it is not real material, but it has transformed into a "100% mahogany furniture" in the market.
"Like a small and medium-sized mahogany furniture manufacturer like us, life is getting worse. There are too many messes in the market. The ordinary consumers of mahogany furniture ca n’t afford it. If you do n’t make it, others will make it. Anyway, ordinary consumers can't recognize the genuine and fake goods at all. "When the reporter visited the Dinghui Temple store in Jimei, Beijing, many redwood furniture merchants said this.
And all this may change with the new standard "General Technical Conditions of Redwood Furniture" enforced by the state from August 1.
"This standard is the first Chinese traditional hardwood furniture standard formulated at home and abroad, including mahogany." Jiang Hengfu, secretary general of the Traditional Furniture Professional Committee of the China Furniture Association, said in an interview with our reporter: "It is used to regulate the entire traditional hardwood industry. As a mandatory standard, its implementation will increase the standardization of the industry and enterprises, and will play an active role in safeguarding the interests of enterprises, protecting the rights and interests of consumers, and promoting the healthy development of the mahogany furniture industry. "
It is understood that the new version of the national standard mainly includes 10 items such as the scope, terms and definitions, requirements and quality of mahogany furniture. The standard "clarifies and standardizes the definition of mahogany furniture for the first time, and provides for the naming and identification of mahogany furniture by the name of the tree species whose products mainly use wood." The standard also clearly stipulates that each piece of mahogany furniture must be accompanied by a "Redwood Furniture Product Quality Express Card", and the manufacturer must specify on the express card the furniture product implementation standards, product process classification, product quality level, product application scope, The main materials of the product, product finishing and decoration technology and other information.
In addition, compared with the 2000 version of the mahogany national standard, the "General Technical Conditions of Mahogany Furniture" not only sets uniform specifications for product labels, but also supplements the product contract and clarifies the content covered by the product instruction manual. The new national standard will also require all sellers to provide after-sales service related to product warranty, product return, product charge conditions beyond the warranty conditions and warranty period after sales. At the same time, the biggest difference of the new national standard is that when entering the judicial appraisal, consumers and manufacturers must provide product instructions, product quality assurance card, product certification.
"This standard actually plays an important role in the specification of mahogany furniture production and craftsmanship," said Yin Yafang, secretary general of the Redwood Branch of China Forest Products Industry Association. "Moreover, it clearly put forward regulations on the after-sales of defective products, which has certain significance for further regulating and promoting the development of the industry."
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Whether to expand the range of tree species becomes the focus
In the upcoming new national standard of "General Technical Conditions for Redwood Furniture", one point has attracted people's attention-this version of the new national standard is different from the previous industry standards on the restriction of tree species, and promotes the development and use of new types of mahogany wood, and provides The wood must be tested before production.
It is understood that in recent years, as Africa, Southeast Asia and other regions have tightened the export of valuable wood such as rosewood, many furniture manufacturers have begun to rush to purchase supplies, making rosewood more tight. Some experts pointed out that when traditional old redwood cannot meet production, New varieties of rosewood are bound to appear. And this also destined that the mahogany standard will no longer be confined to the traditional 5 genera, 8 types and 33 species. Bai Yun, the manager of the planning department of Liantianhong (Fujian) Furniture Co., Ltd., also said in an interview: In order to ensure the normal progress of furniture production, Liantianhong Company has invested 300 to 400 million yuan in the purchase of mahogany raw materials for a long time; The characteristics of regeneration, as long as the company was founded, Chairman Liantian Hongli had already planned, as long as the wood itself has high hardness, high density, high oil content and good wear resistance, it will be considered for use in future development. As of now, Liantianhong has found more than 10 new species with wood properties similar to or better than that of mahogany worldwide. These new species may be launched in modern and fashionable furniture.
In the new version of "General Technical Conditions for Mahogany Furniture", has it been proposed to "expand the range of tree species" and use new materials? In this regard, Jiang Hengfu said: "As a basic standard, the standard does not technically define the range of tree species for mahogany furniture, nor does it exist to expand the range of tree species."
Yin Yafang believes that many companies want to stabilize the content of the existing national standard, and do not want to expand the scale. Regardless of any changes in the new standard, it should still follow the provisions of the current national standard, and there should be no contradictions, otherwise it may not be conducive to the further implementation and operation of law enforcement and quality inspection agencies. He pointed out that tree species that do not belong to mahogany are not necessarily bad. Enterprises can expand their product lines, but the tree species that do not belong to the existing national standard should be clearly stated, which does not hinder the sustainable development of the enterprise.
Yang Jiaju, a research expert in the wood industry of the Chinese Academy of Forestry and the first drafter of the Chinese Redwood Standards, mentioned in an interview that the development and use of new mahogany tree species is a matter of time. However, based on the current unsound market situation, the easy addition of new tree species will not only increase the difficulty of the country ’s tree species detection and identification, but also confuse consumers and lead to more chaotic market order. The expansion of tree species must be judged from scientific data, and should not be rushed.
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