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Panel furniture earns its market shares for novel style, bright color, and merits of resistance to deform, crack, anti-moth and moderate price. At the same time, panel furniture also has the environmental protection problem of overproof formaldehyde content. It is not an easy thing to pick out satisfied panel furniture among the various products on the market.

Panel furniture is furniture made by veneering medium density fiberboard or chipboard. It has the basic features of dismountable, diversified shape, fashionable appearance, resistant to deform, stability, affordable etc. Panel furniture is connected by metal hardware. Its installation and dismantle is convenient. High machining precision product can be dismantled and installed repeatedly. This feature makes it popular choice for those who often move. As the base material of panel furniture break the physical structure of timber, it is more stable in quality than solid wood furniture under the condition of large change in temperature and humidity.

The classification of panel furniture

Classification according to panel

The common panel for making panel furniture has core board, plywood, chipboard, fiberboard etc. Plywood is often used to produce furniture with varied shape. The performance of core board is affected by the quality of core. Chipboard has loose texture. Customer can find it in medium and low grade furniture. Middle density fiberboard has the lowest cost performance, moist-proof and anti-deformation property. After knowing the specific feature of different panel furniture, customer can choose the suitable product by combining actually needs with the performance of panel.

Classification according to veneering

1. Melamine veneering

Melamine veneering is made by printing pattern on the decoration paper and then steeping in melamine glue. It is hot pressed on the panel base material. It has vivid texture, good wear resistance, scratch resistance, water proof and easy to produce. It is widely used in the manufacturing of panel furniture.

2. Solid wood veneering

The manufacturing process of solid wood veneering is pasting the solid wood veneering on panel with thermocompressor. Natural and true hand feeling make it the main veneering form of high grade furniture. The raw material and manufacturing cost is relatively high than other veneering.

3. Fire proof board veneering

Fire proof board is a kind of decoration panel having siliceous material or calcareous material as raw material and mixing with fiber material, lightweight aggregate, adhesive and chemical additive in certain proportion and finally made by autoclaved technology.

Comparison of panel furniture and solid wood furniture

Appearance: Panel furniture has various appearance designs. It suit for people looking for fashionable and unique home decoration. Solid wood furniture has simple and natural style. Its raw material is more eco-friendly. It can give people the feeling of close to nature.

Dismounting: Panel furniture is connected by metal hardware. It is convenient to install and dismantle. High quality panel furniture can be dismantled and installed repeatedly. Solid wood furniture is connected by adhesive. It is not dismountable.
Price: The price of panel furniture is relatively lower than solid wood furniture.
Merits: relatively affordable price, resistant to deformation are the merits of panel furniture. Solid wood furniture is featured with durable, eco-friendly.

Defects: As additive and adhesive is used during the manufacturing process of panel furniture, pollution is the largest defect of panel furniture. Easy to deform, inconvenient in maintenance, expensive, dull style are the defects of solid wood furniture. Check the advantages and disadvantages of panel furniture here.