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01 / THE BRIEF
Drawing, sample or photograph
Anything we can measure is enough to start. We come back with the questions that will change the cost — section sizes, whether it knocks down, and how it has to pack.
MANUFACTURING
What we make, and how
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FINISHED PIECES AWAITING INSPECTION
One timber, a range of finishes, and a joint that pulls itself tight as it ages. Beyond the catalogue we build to your drawings, under your label, in your carton.
What follows covers the specification itself, the ways of working with us, and what happens to a piece between the last sanding and the container door.
THE FINISHES, AND WHAT GOES WITH THEM
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ONE TIMBER
Materials & finishes
Solid plantation teak throughout, combined where specified with rope, aluminium, Batyline sling or stainless. The secondary material changes the weight, the maintenance cycle and sometimes the CBM — never the joinery.
FOUR OF THE FINISHES
What each one asks of the end user
- INATURAL RAW
Silvers to an even grey in about nine months outdoors. Needs nothing beyond an annual wash. The change is cosmetic; the oil content that makes teak durable is unaffected.
- IISANDED
The same timber taken to a finer grit. Holds its colour marginally longer and takes an oil later without stripping.
- IIIBRUSHED
Grain raised and the softer early wood cut back. Reads as texture rather than sheen, and hides handling marks on a public terrace.
- IVOILED
Holds the honey colour. Wants re-oiling once a year, twice in strong equatorial sun. The maintenance is the trade for the colour.
Each finish is priced on its own, and more are being added. What also changes is the maintenance the end user takes on.
SECONDARY MATERIALS
Rope, sling, aluminium, stainless
Rope is marine-grade, specified for UV and chlorine, hand-woven in our own bay rather than subcontracted so tension is consistent across a batch — and rewoven on site in an afternoon when a resort eventually needs it. Batyline sling is used where a chair has to dry in minutes rather than hours.
Aluminium and stainless appear as structure, never as a substitute for a joint. Hardware is AISI 304 as standard and 316 on request for coastal sites, which is a specification worth making explicitly if the furniture will sit within sight of open water.
DRAW-BORE PIN GOING IN
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CONSTRUCTION
Joinery & hardware
Every leg-to-rail junction is a through mortise-and-tenon, draw-bored so the joint pulls tight as the pin drives, then pinned in teak. Back slats are housed rather than screwed. No pocket screws anywhere in the outdoor programme.
WHY DRAW-BORING
The joint tightens itself
A draw-bored joint has its peg hole offset by a millimetre or so, so driving the teak pin pulls the shoulder hard against the rail and keeps it there as the timber moves through the seasons. It is slower than clamping and gluing, and it is the reason a twelve-year-old chair on a Bali terrace still does not rock.
Adhesive is D4 exterior grade, but the joint is designed to hold without it. Glue that is doing structural work in outdoor furniture is a countdown, not a specification.
ON THE BENCH
The detail, close up
HARDWARE
What is in the bag
- IAISI 304
Standard on every knock-down frame. Barrel nuts, so the joint can be drawn tight again on site after a season.
- IIAISI 316
On request, for coastal and poolside installations where chloride attack is the real risk rather than rain.
- IIITEAK PINS
The draw-bore pin is teak, not steel. It moves with the frame instead of working a hole around itself.
- IVD4 ADHESIVE
Exterior grade, used as insurance on a joint that is already mechanically sound.
WHITE LABEL — BUILT TO A BUYER SPECIFICATION
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YOUR BRAND
OEM & white label
Send a drawing, a sample or a reference photograph. We return a prototype, a costing and a packing calculation, usually inside two weeks. Your brand goes on the label, the carton and the export documents.
HOW IT RUNS
Three steps, about two weeks
White-label work has been part of the floor since the workshop opened. OEM work never appears in our own catalogue, and we do not show one client’s pieces to another.
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02 / THE PROTOTYPE
One piece, photographed and shipped
We build one, photograph it from every angle and send it to you. Changes at this stage cost hours. Changes after the run costs a container.
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03 / THE RUN
Your carton, your barcode
Your label on the carton and your name on the export documents. Consistent finish across seasons, because the same bay and the same team run the repeat.
Start an OEM enquiryTHE COMMERCIAL PART
What buyers check first
03 questions
There is no fixed minimum. A first run can go LCL; most programmes grow into a mixed 20FT or 40HQ of four or five models.
Yes, at cost, and it is credited against the first production order.
No. OEM work is never listed, never photographed for our own use and never shown to another buyer.
ONE BUSINESS DAY
Send us the drawing
Talk to the floor
Questions about grade, joinery or loading are answered by the people who do the work, not by a call centre.
- +62 812 2934 589
- [email protected]
- Loading port
- Semarang (Tanjung Emas)
Replies within one business day, Jakarta time
CUSTOM TABLE CHECKED AGAINST A FULL-SIZE DRAWING
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NO TOOLING CHARGE
Made to drawing
Solid timber has no mould, so changing a length, a depth or a seat height costs setup time rather than tooling. There is usually no surcharge for a dimensional change to a catalogue piece.
WHERE WE PUSH BACK
We will tell you when a detail will not weather
Fully custom pieces are quoted from a drawing, with a prototype before the run. If a detail will trap water, or a section is too light to carry a public load for ten years, we will say so at drawing stage rather than build it and take the return.
That conversation is short and it is the most useful part of the process. Most changes we suggest cost nothing — a two-millimetre chamfer on a slat, a drainage gap in a seat frame, a joint moved out of standing water.
WHAT CHANGES FREELY
Usually at no extra cost
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Dimensions
Length, depth, height and seat height on any catalogue piece, within what the joint will carry.
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Finish
Any finish in the range, priced per finish. Mixed finishes across one order are fine.
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Hardware
AISI 316 throughout instead of 304, or a knock-down version of an assembled frame.
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Packing
Your carton, your barcode, or a different pack quantity to suit a warehouse.
SEND THE DRAWING
Ask about a change
Talk to the floor
Questions about grade, joinery or loading are answered by the people who do the work, not by a call centre.
- +62 812 2934 589
- [email protected]
- Loading port
- Semarang (Tanjung Emas)
Replies within one business day, Jakarta time
THE FINAL WALL, PHOTOGRAPHED FOR THE LOADING REPORT
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LOADING
Packing & loading
Cartons are five-ply with edge protection and corner board. Knock-down hardware travels in a labelled bag inside the carton with an assembly sheet. Packing is ISPM-15 treated before the container is sealed.
THE LOADING REPORT
So a claim can be settled against what left
Every container is photographed as it is loaded: the empty box, the stages of the load, the final wall, and the seal with its number legible. The file ships with the documents on the day the container leaves the yard.
It costs us twenty minutes per container. It has settled every damage conversation we have had in ten years, in both directions — including the ones where the fault was ours.
WHAT IS IN THE BOX
Carton specification
- IFIVE-PLY
Corrugated carton with corner board and edge protection on every face that takes a strap.
- IIISPM-15
All solid-wood packing material treated and stamped — pallets, bracing and corner board, not only crates.
- IIIHARDWARE BAG
Knock-down fittings in a labelled bag inside the carton, with an assembly sheet in English.
- IVCBM ON THE LABEL
Packed volume and piece count printed on the carton, so a receiving warehouse can check without opening it.
Have a drawing already?
Send it with your quantities and we will come back with a prototype, a costing and a packing calculation.