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Chapter 209 Catering to the preferences of young people (ask for subscription! ask for monthly pass!)
"Don't make mahogany furniture? Do solid wood furniture? Isn't the business of mahogany furniture very good now? Why don't you make mahogany furniture again? If you don't make mahogany furniture, what should we do?" Wang Jianshan asked incomprehensibly.

"I didn't say not to make mahogany furniture anymore, but to add solid wood furniture other than mahogany. Don't we also make teak furniture now? It doesn't belong to mahogany furniture, right? It's just that we treat it as mahogany furniture. It's gone." Ouyang Dehe explained.

"Young people nowadays prefer freedom, and their furniture also hopes to be simpler and more convenient. Traditional Chinese mahogany furniture has limited appeal to young people."

"Besides, houses in cities are getting taller and taller now, and the units are smaller. The mahogany furniture is fixed in shape, and it is rarely disassembled, or the disassembly is not thorough enough. Even the elevator cannot enter the larger furniture."

"The other thing is that mahogany furniture is quite expensive. After buying it home, it is inconvenient to move, and it is not willing to give it away."

"The disassembly and assembly of solid wood furniture can solve this problem very well and move easily."

"In addition, disassembled solid wood furniture is more suitable for large-scale production. As long as a unified standard is established, the cost can be clearly calculated, and the transportation is also more convenient. It can be assembled at the place, unlike mahogany furniture, which can only be pulled by a car. Very little furniture."

"So in the future, in order to meet the development of the times and the needs of young people, even mahogany furniture must be innovative in style. Some people like antique-style mahogany furniture, but many people like modern-style furniture."

"This requires us to keep pace with the times, blend modern styles into antique styles, and turn them into new Chinese furniture."

After Wang Jianshan heard this, he was silent. Although he had a special liking for antique mahogany furniture, he couldn't deny that what the boss said was very reasonable, just like when his son got married, he didn't like classical mahogany furniture very much. The style of antique mahogany furniture is the same as that of modern style furniture.

The thinking of young people is different from that of the older generation. As a company, it cannot operate according to its own preferences. After all, young people are the main force of future consumption, so companies must cater to the preferences of young people. , To design products that meet the consumption needs of young people can make the enterprise develop better.

"It's just that everyone is used to making mahogany furniture, and it may be difficult for everyone to suddenly switch to solid wood disassembly and assembly furniture!" Wang Jianshan said sadly.

"This is not a problem. It is enough to hire a group of people with experience in solid wood furniture factories, and we are mainly responsible for the design and proofing work. For mass production, we can send it to other factories to be responsible for production. "

"In addition, in order to save transportation costs, wherever our directly-operated stores are located, we can find a local factory to manufacture them? Because they are all processed and produced according to standards, when the sales volume of furniture in a certain place is better, we can buy furniture at any time. Distribute processed furniture to nearby cities."

Ouyang Dehe roughly explained his plan to Wang Jianshan, but he will still recruit a professional person to be responsible for the R&D and design of solid wood furniture.

Moreover, solid wood furniture is not equal to low-end furniture. In fact, the wood that Ouyang Dehe intends to focus on is red oak from the eastern and western regions of Citigroup. The price of this kind of wood is not cheap. The finished solid wood furniture is not cheap, and it is comparable to ordinary mahogany furniture in mahogany furniture, and even more expensive.

For mahogany furniture, red oak solid wood furniture is more suitable for assembly line production, and has more advantages than mahogany furniture in terms of production capacity.

There are few assembly line operations in the production of mahogany furniture, and even if there are, the benefits are not very high. Therefore, the production capacity of mahogany furniture factories is limited, and it is difficult to achieve large-scale production.

The production of mahogany furniture is mainly produced by subcontractors. Fortunately, in the early years, the wages of apprentices were generally not high, and many people were willing to learn a skill.

But now, it will be even worse in the future. There will be fewer and fewer people who are apprentices, and fewer and fewer people are willing to endure hardships. Everyone is an only child, and they don’t have to think about sending money home when they come out to work. It’s good to support yourself up.

Moreover, the wages of apprentices will be getting higher and higher, but they still can't recruit people. Many contracting teams are in groups of two or three, and even only the master of the contracting team is left alone, becoming a polished commander.

If there are too few shipments, the contractors will not be able to make money, which is not worthwhile. If there are too many shipments, the time will be too long. Wood is a special thing that expands with heat and contracts with cold, and it tends to swell in spring. , It is easy to shrink and crack in autumn. No matter how you deal with it, it is difficult to solve this problem, so the time is too long, and the wood capacity is deformed and cracked.

Moreover, it is impossible for the customer's order to be delayed indefinitely, so as the time goes by, the number of contracting teams will decrease, and more and more will start to use the method of timing. A master carpenter worked together to complete it.

Solid wood furniture is different. One person does one process, which is very suitable for assembly line operations. As long as one sample is assembled, there is no need to assemble the other parts after they are processed. After they are directly installed and painted, they can be packaged and shipped. , The benefit is higher than that of mahogany furniture, definitely not 01:30.

The reasoning said that Ouyang Dehe opened another branch factory to make solid wood furniture, so he didn't need to discuss with Wang Jianshan, but he still told Wang Jianshan his next plan because he hoped that Wang Jianshan could also Participate in the research and development and design of solid wood furniture.

Strictly speaking, mahogany furniture also belongs to the category of solid wood furniture, but mahogany furniture tends to be assembled, and solid wood furniture is mainly folded.

But solid wood furniture is not as scattered as a piece of material, it also has parts that need to be assembled.

For example, for a dining table, first of all, the top tabletop panel must be assembled first, and it is fixed and cannot be disassembled.

Four panel materials, plus one panel, the panel cannot be a whole board, and it must also be assembled, using multiple pieces of wood to join together into one piece.

In addition, there must be a bracket in the middle of the panel, because the panel is a large board and cannot be very thick, so it must be supported by material, otherwise, the middle will sink if you apply force.

If you step on the middle of the table, wouldn't you want to step on a big hole?

So no matter how you disassemble it, this panel is impossible to disassemble, unless you are making panel furniture, but panel furniture is made of high-density boards, which is not a concept at all with solid wood furniture.

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