Furniture glass fiber

Manufacturing furniture quality, aesthetics and to lower costs, which compete with firms United States and Europe, was the idea that was raised as the Argentine Dario Polish, who has revolutionized the market of their country using as raw fibre glass.

The award-winning innovative America 2011, in the category of design, created a modern furniture exteriors that can compete with similar products superindustrializados, using soft investment technologies but that give a very competitive level surface finish international.

The raw material used in these furniture is a composite material containing resin and glass fibre, which is imported from Brazil, while the resin occurs in Argentina.

"Actually we didn't invent the material (fiberglass), but to seize their properties, exploit them and made improvements in the manufacturing process to reach one use" u000a"optimized material," explained Polish to participate at the breakfast of the newspaper LISTÍN.

Polish achieved an unprecedented use of resin reinforced for the construction of outdoor furniture monopiezas laminar monocoques (does not require an additional structure).

"We do a kind of sandwich, but under such a scheme we have participated in international exhibitions and we have had nothing to envy as regards what is perception of quality industrial products," said Polish, to be interviewed by the director of LISTÍN DIARIO, Miguel Franjul.

"We try to find a niche in the market, taking advantage of the resources we have." "What do we aim is innovation, design and quality," said Polish, who was accompanied by the winners of other categories as well as the creators of the innovators of America Award, the Colombian Gustavo Sorzano and Dominican Felipe Pagés, director of u000aInnovamérica.

It's a technology that requires a factor craft, although the products are designed to pursue criteria industrial.

Society
after several years of experience in industrial design and development of technologies soft, in 2009 Polish decided to use its trajectory in a self-produced project and partnered Diego Weisse industrial engineer, to create the Coconut Lounge Enterprise

Both joined their training and experience in design and industrial engineering to generate a competitive proposal for design, quality and price, using productive resources local.

At the beginning of 2010 they teamed up with Ezequiel Giorgi, an experienced manufacturer of products in resin reinforced.

For eight months conducted tests on the production process and material in order to fully exploit the qualities of this technology.

As a result of this development came the first product, u000athe Boogie Lounge Chair which had great success in the market.

After year and half Coconut Lounge has developed eight products and has obtained the recognition of national and international levels of authorities in the design and the entrepreneurship.

"I think that it is a good model of the initiation of projects, whose technologies in the future can be adapted to supply a massive demand", said Polish, noting that the Argentines may not have the technology that is in Germany, Italy and the productive capacity of China, but "not for that reason we have to stay in a State of paralysis and not to create"", because something starts".

In both, Weisse emphasized that natural resources they have taken advantage in their work. "Historically, Latin America used this natural resource in raw, but the important thing is we ourselves develop value adding to our resources, and thus achieve create the work in our region".

In this u000asense, Pagés said that through design latinos can produce very attractive as the Germans and Italians. furniture

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Reception of the product in the field global
Coconut Lounge has developed eight products that have earned the recognition of national and international.

The first manufactured product was the Boogie Lounge Chair, which required eight months of development and had a great impact in the shops.

He was the starting point for the development of products that are competitive in design, quality and price.

Coconut Lounge was selected by the design of Argentina Metropolitan Center to represent the design of his country in the exhibition 100% Design London in England (2010).

To participate in the breakfast of LISTÍN DIARIO, Darío Polish said that in his country (Argentina) design of outdoor spaces has gained great importance due to the emergence of real estate developments such as u000acountries, high-end hotels and gated communities. However, the absence of a domestic supply of modern furniture for outdoor detected and that the market was acaparado for products imported.

"Our products seek to meet the demand generated by the rise of the design hotels and residential complexes of modern architecture in suburban areas where outdoor spaces have preponderance," explained.

Matter prima
fiberglass is a fibrous material obtained to make flow molten glass through a piece of very fine holes (espinerette) and to solidify it has sufficient flexibility to be used as a fiber.

Its main properties are the good thermal insulation inert to acids and supports high temperatures.

These properties and the low price of their raw materials, have given him popularity in the manufacturing of boats, interiors of trains and other products.

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