Archive for January 2010

What if you have a great idea, a great prototype or a great one-off piece of furniture? You want to turn this opportunity into a product you can sell in large quantities. Pli’s production service allows designers to develop a ready-to-manufacture production model on a pay-as-you-go basis.

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For this post please read page 32 of the LEED 2009 for Commercial Interiors Rating System

Reusing existing furniture is an interesting topic for a furniture manufacturer to be talking to its customers about. If we encourage you to try and achieve MR Credit 3.2: Materials Reuse—furniture and furnishings we are turning away business, because to gain the LEED point for MR Credit 5 30% of your furniture and furnishing budget should be spent on salvaged, refurbished or used products. Here at Pli we realise due to environmental issues the way furniture companies do business has to change, so we are trying to come up with our own ideas before we are regulated to into a way of working that may not work for our business.

Wrap & Whitechapel refurbishment diagram