The Secret Behind IKEA Tables: Honeycomb!
Ever wonder how IKEA makes their furniture sturdy yet light? The secret is the honeycomb skeleton inside their tabletops. National Geographic went inside an IKEA factory in Poland: Link
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12 comments to "The Secret Behind IKEA Tables: Honeycomb!"
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Skipweasel
November 3rd, 2009 at
2:42 pm
It's the same technique that's been used for interior doors for many decades.
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pwscott
November 3rd, 2009 at
3:20 pm
I found this idea used in the bumper of my car. I attached a ground effect light to the STYROFOAM filling the plastic.
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Foreigner1
November 3rd, 2009 at
3:31 pm
So it's true- They sell mainly air...
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meg
November 3rd, 2009 at
3:51 pm
Sturdy is a matter of perception...I've put things together perfectly and they were amazingly sturdy, but make one wrong move during assembly and they fall apart like cardboard...
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Kalel
November 3rd, 2009 at
5:55 pm
Aluminum honeycomb core is very common on aircraft as well. Light, but very strong.
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dutchboy
November 3rd, 2009 at
6:08 pm
Its a polite way of saying that it's made out of cardboard.
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l'elk!
November 3rd, 2009 at
7:15 pm
that's a lot cooler than the shitty particle board they fill the majority of their furniture with
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Lady Helena Handbasket
November 4th, 2009 at
3:26 am
I discovered this when I sawed up some Ikea shelves. If I had realised I could get on the front page of Neatorama I would have taken some photos.
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BikerRay
November 4th, 2009 at
7:06 am
What a gushing commentator! I found the lack of robots odd in a modern factory. Guess labor is still cheap in Poland.
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Sue Dunham
November 4th, 2009 at
10:17 am
BikerRay, you are so right about the commentator. I't's the style nowadays, but the constant over-stressing of relatively unimportant words really annoys me.
Hey, it's a hollow core door. It's not the greatest thing in the whole wide world. Newscasters really abuse this style of narration. -
Matt Kaufman
November 4th, 2009 at
11:40 am
Sturdy? STURDY??? Have you ever actually owned anything from IKEA? There's a reason why they keep all those replacement parts handy...
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zazie
November 5th, 2009 at
5:36 pm
Cool. I actually have always wondered what was inside our LACK table!
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