Chemical use for cheating, camouflaging the sap-wood into fine grade in Jepara

O'nei writing:
Be Aware of the using strong Chemical on Jepara's low grade wooden furniture, that purposely done for enhancing or toning the sapwood's color into its nature. Especially for outdoor Teak Garden furniture.
This is such an intention to cheating, or at least to disguise the low grade stuff into a better looking, as if it is a fine wood of high grade ones.
By doing this chemical treatment on the pieces, the seller is expecting to get for easy selling or attempting to get more big profit from it.
If you do not have knowledge or experience about it, you will get a low grade C of Teak Garden furniture instead of the normal fine grade: medium B to A.

The bad impact of this malicious wood-enhancing chemical to the furniture are:
1. Economic:
-Cheating the consumer in marking up the pricing value of low grade wood.
-False of statement about the Quality or wood grade of the furniture,
would bring branding issue of a bad reputation for Jepara-Indonesian
furniture's products. It is such a very big loose and a suicide attempt of it,
after a long way of 25 years establishing a branding image of export quality
wood-furniture.
2. Functional:
-Sap-wood is the outer part of timber: epidermic. Not the wood it self:
Cortex part that provide the fibers tissue of Cambium, oil and resin.
Thus, it is not strong, moreover for outdoor placing,
it will be not last for long.
-Sapwood is also not resistant with termite, bugs,worms and other wood's
predator. having this in your furniture will be a possibility it will turn into
powder/dust.
3. Defections:
-Strong chemical reaction will reactive to the glue at the joinery part of
furniture, many cases of serious damage and dis-part of the units had been
a Big Claimed. During the application this toning process are need to be
heated under Sunlight and or other heater(kiln booth), mostly are in the
assembled/raw finish condition not as components parts pre-assembling
ones. obviously it will open up and splitting the glued parts.
The worse thing was that after they found the defects of splitting after
this heating, they just do a little touch up by gluing with super glue-Alteco,
which only covering the trace of crack and re-do a little sanding on surfaces.
when its had arrived to customers, the cracks and breakages,
would be the top issues.
-Deteriorating Brass and all metals hardware, it will get rusty and corrosive.
during the sailing period, inside the container, the chemical agents will
evaporated or sublimed, the gas will reacting onto the furniture hardware.
4. Toxic and hazardous to health:
-Not 2 or 3 cases been reported of these cases, some importer/buyers must
pay a big hell money after having the court case, that been charged from the
victims of this hazardous furniture from Jepara and other places Indonesia.
Some of the claims are:

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- Dermatitis or Skin allergic and irritation.
- Perspiration problem (breathing and Lungs)
- Eyes irritation of the non-visible toxic gas.
- Injuries by accident, caused breakage or broken part of seat units.
- Damages losses caused by broken chairs and tables.

Note:
All Customs of buyer or importer of wooden furniture from Jepara especially Teak Garden Furniture, must do inspection and examination for 'Toxic free' to assure that those stuff will not harming the user/consumers.
Or the buyer/importer must ask a certificate of inspection provided by the Health Office or a like as FDA to be attached for every container as pre-shipment inspection terms/condition.
which is certifying the safe-level of chemical contents on the furniture that may have.
If Australian had applied special regualtion for the wooden pallet and other packing material,
for protecting/prevention of any endemic agents against their Farms. Then it must be a more serious concern upon 'the Hazardous furniture'.

reBlog from Oneuni: Jepara handmade wood furniture sourcing, (the clues which are turning into blues)

        Antique Love Heart Chair 

 

 Quote for today: 

Which wood furniture supply resources that could be the reliable one ? 

Relatively, it is return to your expectation/requirement indeed. It is a long way to go for it, a few stage/steps for trial and evaluate Must Do ! Little Tips for it:

- Ask for the "References" about the company's reputation and quality from their last buyer or existing ones, then cross check it to those clients/buyers about this supplier.

- Ask and find where they had shipped/exported the furniture and see it there. If not, a sample for approval/presentation must acquire. However, still keep in your mind: "The Sample may be fine, but how are the main order(quantity) would be?                                        

Oneuni, Jepara handmade wood furniture sourcing, (the clues which are turning into blues), Jan 2010

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reBlog from Oneuni: Jepara handmade wood furniture sourcing, (the clues which are turning into blues)

Quote of: Furniture from Jepara behind the Clues.

Oneuni wrote:Need to emphasize that: the copy-antique reproduction furniture of Jepara-town are handmade stuff with hand tools ! Not more than 2 digits figure that are made by semi machine process. As for the Integrate manufacturing ones, no more than 30 units factories which are still running and or survives. Those are aprox 1% of Jepara's products.

Merely 85% of the raw furniture(Ina=Mentahan) are made by villagers as a home made woodworking, so called as craftsmen(Ina=pengrajin) and a part of it are made in the workshop of private owned, doing the small scale industry by hiring few woodworkers(=tukang kayu) and carvers(=pengukir) to make the un-finished raw furniture. so called as little boss(=Juragan).

About 10% are the trader or broker that ordering and or bought the raw wood furniture from both, as said above (craftsmen and small Industries). It is called as Suppliers. They are doing: sortiments, re-built, sanding etc. Mainly are to face-up or enhancing the raw furniture 'in all the way' before it will go to exporter's warehouse for passing an inspection . Particularly their involves are in financing to the sub-cont.and craftsmen, it is for buying the wood and payroll weekly-wages(Ina=Kamisan) of the Craftsmen.

Whilst, the rest of 4% are the warehouse, those are the exporters in Jepara-town, which are doing mostly: finishing & upholsteries. but even so the finishing & upholstry job is mostly been sub contracted to the local subcon. They get the raws or white pieces from either one of the 3 aboves(Craftsmen+little bossy+supplier/broker)
Oneuni, Jepara handmade wood furniture sourcing, (the clues which are turning into blues), Jul 2009                                                                        You should read the whole article.

How to Deal with Jepara's furniture Exporter ?

Oneuni wrote:
Trade safely  with Jepara's exporter or supplier, read this?

To Whom that you deal with ?
- Foreigner, ex patriarch
- Non Javanese ethnic , Other island outside Java
- Non Jepara (nese), but coming from Java island
- Jeparanese, Javanese ethnic.

What is the exporter companies in Indonesia ?
- PT =  Coy Ltd are: PMA(foreigner), PMDN(Domestic), Private sectors
- CV = Joint venture by Private sectors or family's own
- UD = Personal trading /Private or home business
- Others= Buying agent, sourcing, broker or other personal services.

What licenses for being an exporter of wooden furniture ?
- ETPIK (Permanent Exporter of  wood-industry manufacturer)= export license
- SIUP= Company's Trade license (by Trade & Industry office/GOV)
- NPWP = Tax -registrar number.
- Akta Pendirian = Legal company (Notary or solicitor) for CV & PT.

How to verify company in Indonesia, especially Jepara ?
After formality or legal aspects above, further verification Must do:
- As for the papers are just papers, need to check the actual condition/activity.
  Many of those exporters/companies are sleeping company/dormant and inactive.
- The Owner/key person ? most of those companies(PT or CV) are fully controlled by
   individual act(personal) whilst all the papers are just for formality.
   On finger-counting only that are implementing "Management-role".
   In some cases, the directors and Managers are seem to be as in the Puppet show.
- Get the contact person's details:  ID card, recent address, home address and phone.
   Bio-data and family's back ground, whilst Cell/mobile phone number are unwise,
   with 3 US-D anyone can get a new number mobile phone-line.
- Whilst for the Website!?! first page's rating and page-rank !? again it is only Virtual/Maya.
  You only believe with what you'd got/proven, not from what you read and hear.!?!
   Do not 'be a Victim' of propaganda/advertising or SEO pomo ! And please check what is the rank
  of  Indonesian scamer at worldwide-forum, Interpol, cyber-cops, FBI etc. at Google.

Which resources that could be the reliable one ?
Relatively, it is return to your expectation/requirement indeed.
It is a long way to go for it, a few stage/steps for trial and evaluate Must Do !
Little Tips for it:
- Ask for the "References" about the company's reputation and quality from their last buyer
  or existing ones, then cross check it to those clients/buyers about this supplier.
- Ask and find where they had shipped/exported the furniture and see it there.
  If not, a sample for approval/presentation must acquire. However, still keep in your mind:                
  "The Sample may be fine, but how are the main order(quantity) would be?                                        
  "Will it be consistent ? The wise is:"You come down or send your QC team to monitor as prevention! 
   and do a Pre-shipment inspection !!"
- The flying hours ?!, how long they had been in the business and doing on certain range items,
   a very wide range in style/design are need specialize and experiences.  Not all kinds/categories
   that one could achieve it in a few years only.

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