In recent years, plastic furniture is increasingly popular among young people, they like to arrange their small homes into a simple style, with colorful plastic transparent furniture to brighten up the interior.

A, the advantages of plastic furniture

1. Colorful

Plastic furniture is very rich in color, according to people’s favorite deployment of a variety of color categories. The same color brightness and saturation can be designed and developed. Not only a single color, there are rich and diverse color forms such as color, to meet the needs of different people and environments.

2. Variety of shapes

Plastic furniture than wood or metal materials made of furniture, plasticity is extremely strong, can be processed into any shape. For some complex structure of furniture can be done in one go, reducing production costs, suitable for batch production.

3. Green environmental protection

Plastic home can be recycled, to minimize the pollution of the environment This point for the importance of environmental protection and quality of life of modern people, is undoubtedly a major advantage.

Second, the plastic furniture molding process

The choice of molding method depends on the type of plastic, characteristics, starting state and the structure, size and shape of the finished product. Plastic molding methods can be divided into three types, respectively, glass state mechanical processing, high elasticity state of the heat bending process and liquid flow molding process.

The glass state mechanical processing method is similar to the processing of metal parts, and is suitable for the simple geometric form of plastic furniture. The high-elasticity hot bending process includes a variety of methods such as hot pressing, bending, and orthogonal molding. This type of processing process has many operational steps and is semi-crafty in nature.

The liquid flow molding process is one of the most commonly used plastic furniture molding process, that is, through the liquid plastic flow in the mold or by external force molding. Mainly includes injection molding, extrusion molding, blow molding and rotational molding five methods. The advantage of this molding process is to make things out of high precision, and can be mass production, so in the plastic furniture products are widely used.

Third, the causes of the slow development of plastic furniture

1. Misunderstanding of plastic materials

When it comes to plastic, it is easy for consumers to connect it with “plastic restrictions” and other negative news together. In daily life, people always “talk about plastic”, that plastic is difficult to be degraded, is a non-environmental material, but in fact, plastic materials can be reused through appropriate recycling methods. Consumer misunderstanding of plastic materials is a major reason for the slow development of plastic furniture.

2. “Cheap and low quality” stereotype

Plastic furniture first appeared in order to meet the basic functional needs of consumers, the market needs to provide cheap plastic furniture products. From the perspective of the industry development environment at the time, few companies can design-led to develop plastic furniture products, which also led to the market is flooded with a large number of cheap plastic furniture, we can see everywhere around the cheap plastic chairs is typical, this adverse impact prompted consumers to plastic furniture labeled “cheap and low quality” label.

3. Backward technology

Due to the cost of plastic furniture processing barriers, domestic plastic furniture manufacturers have few cases of technology-led. Specifically in the plastic furniture processing mode is simple, most enterprises still use the traditional injection molding and blow molding process, greatly limiting the development of design styles.

V. Summary

Process and material technology backwardness led to the quality of plastic furniture on the consumer question mark. At the same time, the rapid development of other materials in the furniture industry also reflects the stagnant development of plastic furniture, and in the consumer’s perception is labeled as low-cost, rough label. Designers in the process of designing plastic furniture products should take advantage of the development of technology and techniques to compensate for the lack of plastic materials.