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
Skipweasel
It’s the same technique that’s been used for interior doors for many decades.
pwscott
I found this idea used in the bumper of my car. I attached a ground effect light to the STYROFOAM filling the plastic.
meg
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…
Kalel
Aluminum honeycomb core is very common on aircraft as well. Light, but very strong.
l'elk!
that’s a lot cooler than the shitty particle board they fill the majority of their furniture with
Lady Helena Handbasket
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.
BikerRay
What a gushing commentator! I found the lack of robots odd in a modern factory. Guess labor is still cheap in Poland.
Sue Dunham
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
Sturdy? STURDY??? Have you ever actually owned anything from IKEA? There’s a reason why they keep all those replacement parts handy…
zazie
Cool. I actually have always wondered what was inside our LACK table!
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