What goes into our products

Tube and profile

Where a product is a frame rather than a body, it is built from steel tube and channel instead of sheet. That covers metal bunk beds, the chairs, desks, and tables in our school furniture range, and the frames under our office furniture.

Uprights and side rails	EN 10219 grade S235JRH, on the bunk beds
Slat, rail, and ladder infill	EN 10305-3 grade E190, on the bunk beds
Mill certificates	EN 10204, per batch on request
Wall thickness	0.8 to 1.5 mm across the range
Sections	Square and rectangular box, C-channel, and elliptical tube
Finish	Powder coated, covered under Finish and color below
Origin	Made in Turkey

Box section carries the load on almost everything. C-channel appears only on the bunk side rails, at 120 × 40 mm, where a channel takes the bed base better than a closed tube would. Elliptical tube is used on the school desks and sets, at 25 × 50 mm, because an ellipse gives a student a flatter face to sit against than a square edge does.

The two grades above are the ones we publish, and they are published on the bunk beds. On the chairs, desks, and tables we state the section and the wall thickness on each product page rather than a grade. If your specification needs a grade named on those, ask and we confirm it for your order.

The shelving and racking we supply is specified differently again, because the steel is chosen against the load rather than against a body size. It comes in S235 and S355 grades to suit the configuration, with uprights at 30 × 70 mm as standard and 30 × 90 mm on the taller gondolas and heavier loads. Powder coating runs around 70 micron using a Qualicoat approved coating, and uprights and steel shelf panels can be supplied on a hot dip galvanized substrate, DX51D+Z with a Z100 coating, instead. Material and coating documentation is available on request.

Board and surfaces

Alongside steel, we build wooden lockers and cabinets, mostly office and staff file cabinets and teachers' wardrobes. These are made to order, so the internal layout is set to the job rather than to a fixed model. The same board runs through our office furniture and the tables and desks in our school furniture range.

Not every top is melamine-faced board. Werzalit is a compressed board with a decorative surface, used on the canteen table set and as one top choice on the school desks, maple as standard with other colors on request. Plywood is one of the desktop options on the school desk and chair sets, and laminate decors run on the classroom tables, the teacher desk, and the office range. Bunk beds use board differently again, an 18 mm melamine-faced chipboard headboard panel, and an MDF bed base panel where a buyer does not want wire mesh.

Board	Melamine-faced chipboard or melamine-faced MDF
Body, shelves, doors	18 mm
Back panel	8 mm
Edge banding	0.80 mm standard, with 0.40, 1, or 2 mm on request
Finish	Melamine, lacquer, or paint
Standard decors	Maple, white, oak, walnut, with the closest available match for other colors
Werzalit	Compressed board with a decorative surface, maple as standard, on canteen and school tops
Other tops	Plywood and laminate decors, by model
Board on bunk beds	18 mm melamine-faced chipboard headboards, optional MDF bed base panels
Hinges	Standard, anti-pinch, or piano, for child safety
Feet	5 cm adjustable feet as standard, with longer feet, a legless base, or wooden feet on request
Origin	Made in Turkey

Common builds include a full-height cabinet with shelves behind a door, a lower lockable section under open shelving, glass or plexiglass door panels, and a hanging-rail wardrobe for staff. The shelf count is set to the job and is not capped, so if you need seven or eight shelves we build seven or eight. A tall cabinet at only 36 cm deep can tip, so anti-tip hardware is standard on the 185 cm height. A wall bracket that holds the unit to the wall is available on request. So are rounded corners and plywood. Wood units carry the same 2-year warranty as our steel range.

Plastic and seating

Seating is the one range where the material a buyer sits on is not steel or board. Our school chairs come with a plastic shell or a wooden seat, on the steel frames covered under Tube and profile above.

Shell	One piece HDPE, 420 × 420 mm seat, backrest height 370 mm
Shell colors	12 standard, others reviewed by project
Classic chair seat	Wooden standard, PP on request
Adjustable desk seat	Beech
Origin	Made in Turkey

The HDPE shell is one piece, so the seat and the backrest are the same molding rather than two parts fixed together. The same shell runs across the plastic, stackable, and Z-frame chairs, and only the frame under it changes. On the classic chair the seat and backrest are wooden as standard, with a PP seat and backrest on request. The height adjustable and single student desks take a beech seat.