Rattan Furniture Will Substitute Wood Furniture
Rattan technology became an industry since evening of last century, and developed fast in occident. It upsets conventional furnishings and other material technologic products. It is a main artery product of Hesperian market. In earlier 21st, the tide is beginning to sweep China, look through the lots of furnishings markets, rattan furniture product is holding more and more domain with bit by bit. It is showing its strong market energy, it already expands roundly. The eight reasons explain key secret.
1. Nature and Health
Well-known, conventional furniture made of wood. In several thousand years of developing history of furniture, wood furniture already holds special cultural value. However, the modern industry revolution had changed the condition, people want to debase cost, shorten technical cycle, use complex board largely, the board has many deleterious additive components with body. Purportedly, wooden furniture has element to disease, such as benzene, ammonia, formaldehyde, and so on, they need long time to volatilize, maybe several months, several years, or over ten years. If you buy a unit of wooden furniture in house, it would like set a small exhaust emission stage. So, it’s a fearful problem that hold injurant for modern house article. Rattan furniture product has some big advantages which green, nature, health, handwork. That is why it popular for people.
2. Simple and unsophisticated
Advocate nature not only healthy need, but also a pursuance of aesthetic culture. Science is a two-edged glaive. New technology brings new problem, after the enthusiasm of industrial revolution, people enter reflection again about consumptive need. New material and new technics only give people brief and superficial vogue, it is for long just original and unvarnished modality.
People love the rattan craftwork as if like eat native-born chook. The value isn’t be substituted with new material and new technics.
3. Revolution of consumptive conception
The conception is mutative that people’s consumptive. In research, the consciousness is leaded by fashionable thought: classical or modern, western or national, vitreous and steel, red wooden. In a not open report of authoritative institution, at the pop trend, it is several times than other products that ascending speed of rattan product. It will be the consumptive thought of future house product.
4. Only handwork
Most advanced machine doesn’t substitute handmade. This law cannot overthrow. It has disadvantage by been copied that industrialized and pipelining product. But handmade is never, this is its value. A handmade Cuba cigar is machine-made several tens times. A handmade Benz car, only world grade magnate can get it. A unit of handmade business suit of Pierre Cardin needs air-press from Paris. The product is best expensive by handmade. Pure handwork is value, the rattan product is worthy yet by pure handmade.
5. Scarce wood
Forest resource is less and less. Rattan product has quiet great developing at the situation. In future of house product industry, woodwork will be got more restrained, rattan product will be got more opened. This is a basic trend. Who attach importance to rattan craftwork, who inhabit the predominance.
6. Cost and profit
Out of question, furniture, craftwork, and commodity of other materials, their yielding costs are all higher. These costs include a series of machines, spoilage of machine, a long product line, and so on. But rattan craftwork is flat reverse.
7. Big consumptive market
In our country, the industry is a few which empolder rattan technics product. The energy never be activated that rattan craftwork market. But it is big demand of market in latent. Experts analyzing, in the several years of future, rattan craftwork will hold 1/3 part of market with woodwork, metalwork, and other material products. Until it replace wood to become main industry for structure huge consumptive market about 50 billion yuan.
8. No competitive menace
Accordingly, rattan craftwork has a big underdeveloped market and a huge developing potential. Some factories of rattan craftwork, they have some disadvantages about technology, nameplate, and experience. They don’t have enough competence to intervene in the industry. So, if you deal with the rattan craftwork management, you would have many advantages. It seems warring a business war of no competitor. You get the win easily.
Preeminent nameplate leads rattan craftwork industry, unparalleled quality holds league market.
Industri Furniture
Furniture adalah istilah yang digunakan untuk perabot rumah tangga yang berfungsi sebagai tempat penyimpan barang, tempat duduk, tempat tidur, tempat mengerjakan sesuatu dalam bentuk meja atau tempat menaruh barang di permukaannya. Misalnya furniture sebagai tempat penyimpan biasanya dilengkapi dengan pintu, laci dan rak, contoh lemari pakaian, lemari buku dll. Furniture dapat terbuat dari kayu, bambu, logam, plastik dan lain sebagainya. Furniture sebagai produk artistik biasanya terbuat dari kayu pilihan dengan warna dan tekstur indah yang dikerjakan dengan penyelesaian akhir yang halus.
Sejauh ini industri furniture mebel Indonesia masih memiliki pamor bagus dalam perdagangan dunia. Pada ajang pameran tunggal bertajuk “Indonesia Paviliun” yang berlangsung selama 18-22 Maret 2007 di Shenzen – Cina, furniture asal Indonesia banyak diminati oleh para pembeli internasional. Terdapat sekitar 50 hingga 70 pembeli telah meminta pengusaha Indonesia untuk menjadi pemasok furniture dan kerajinanIndonesia dengan nilai transaksi mencapai sekitar US$ 100 juta .
Pemerintah juga telah mengupayakan untuk mengembangkan industri furniture. Terlebih sektor ini telah ditetapkan pemerintah sebagai salah satu dari 10 komoditas unggulan ekspor Tanah Air. Ini didukung baik oleh aspek kualitas dan desain produk yang diminati oleh konsumen luar negeri, ketersedian bahan baku maupun sumber daya manusia yang terampil.
Demikian juga dari sisi pangsa pasar nasional, industri mebel lokal masih menguasai 70% pasar mebel domestik. Tetapi pangsa pasar ini terancam oleh impor mebel asal China yang pertumbuhannya mencapai 200% per tahun dalam satu tahun terakhir. Peningkatan impor mebel asal China yang terjadi tiap tahun terutama untuk segmen mebel murah, untuk pasar menengah ke bawah.
Furniture makers see robust sales
Despite a global economic slowdown and skyrocketing fuel prices, the furniture ( indonesian furniture) and handicraft business is riding a wave of optimism, targeting 26 percent growth in exports this year. The Association of Furniture and Handicraft Industry (Asmindo) expects full-year exports to reach US$2.4 billion (around Rp 22 trillion), from $1.9 billion last year, said deputy director Basril Djabar.
As of the first half, it has already earned $1.2 billion. To ensure the remaining $1.2 billion, the association is working on promotional campaigns and on intensifying efforts to look for new markets such as the Middle East and eastern Europe. On average, the United States imports around 30 percent of Indonesia’s total furniture and handicraft production, according to the National Agency for Export Development (Nafed), with Japan being the second largest importer, with a share of 11 percent. The Netherlands and France are the third and fourth major buyers with 9 and 6 percent, respectively.
Basril said on Friday that frequent international furniture and handicraft exhibitions have helped keep Indonesia on the radar screen, with orders coming in. “A lot of domestic and foreign players have made use of these events to promote products and make orders,” he said, citing the example of the recent Indonesia International Furniture Fair that attracted foreign buyers. In October, for instance, the association will hold an export exhibition to further promote global interest in domestic products and then later join similar events in China and some European countries. The industry has seen steadily growing demand in the last three years, translated into an upward trend in export values. Asmindo data shows exports in 2005, 2006 and 2007 were valued at $1.79 billion, $1.81 billion and $1.96 billion, respectively.
The products include tables, chairs and filing cabinets made up from rattan, wood and bamboo. “Thus far, sales to eastern European countries are less than 10 percent of total exports. But we are upbeat that they can be promising markets within a few years,” he said, adding that the Middle East was just as attractive. Grabbing customers from those regions, he said, could significantly boost the performance of Indonesian products ( Indonesian furniture) in the international furniture market, led currently by China. Last year, China earned $17 billion, out of the $80 billion global trade in wooden furniture. Asmindo groups together over 2,000 members, most of them centralized in several regions, including Cirebon in West Java, and Jepara and Demak in Central Java. Raw materials, especially rattan, are supplied by farmers living outside Java, such as in Sulawesi, Sumatra and Kalimantan. Those regions are able to produce between 250,000 and 400,000 tons of rattan per year. (ewd)
Indonesian Furniture from Java and Madura Island
Indonesian furniture reflects the rich history of the archipelago. Trade brought people and ideas from China, India, Portugal, Holland and Islam to the islands. These cultures influenced the indigenous styles. Village furniture is simple: decorated household storage chests, stools and low work tables.
Figure 1: Madura Island dowery chest (jodang).
The wealthy elites, both local and expatriate, created a market for more elaborate furniture suited to the damp heat of the tropics. Similar cultural influences, colonial European, Chinese and Islamic, combined in the New World in Spanish Colonial furniture. Some of the painted chests and cupboards from East Java and Madura strongly resemble the chests and trasteros from Spanish Mexico and New Mexico.
Craftsmanship ranges from simple farmer’s stools carved from a single piece of wood, to finely finished, marble-topped cupboards produced by master cabinetmakers. Workshops associated with the royal courts and the major trading cities of the Dutch East India Company on Java produced furniture that combined curvilinear Javanese tastes with the simplicity of eighteenth century European classicism as well as Chinese and Indian influences. This hybrid style may have in turn influenced nineteenth century European Art Nouveau.
It includes marble top tables, elegant chairs with woven rattan seats, carved benches for the waiting rooms outside business and government offices, massive desks, smaller, inlaid writing desks, elaborately carved and painted ceremonial wedding beds with secret compartments for valuables.
From family workshops in the smaller towns and villages of East Java and Madura Island come small chests (peti kecils), cupboards (lemaris) and large storage chests (gereboks) on wheels that make them easy to move. These pieces are for people who love to live with the bold colors of village art and the creative charm of small imperfections.
Woods are local tropical hardwoods. Joints are dovetailed. All the detail carving is done by hand. Colors are bright blues, greens, reds and yellows with white for accent. Islam discourages the use of human and animal form. This has encouraged the creation of bold, interlocking floral and geometric designs. Sometimes a pair of traditional lucky Indonesian dragons, roosters or small figures will be included, especially on the peaked tops of the Madura dowry chests (jodangs).
It is rare now to find older examples of the more popular types of Indonesian Furniture. The workshops are hand-crafting reproductions based on traditional styles. All these newer pieces are still made by hand with the customary Indonesian attention to decorative detail.
article source:http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/indonesi/furnjmac.htm
International Trade – How to Acquire Leads
There are many different types of International trade businesses. For example, you may be an importer of wood furniture or rattan furniture. Or you may be an exporter of similar products. The main goal is to connect the importer and the exporter, so that business transactions can start taking place. That is the gist of International trade.
But for business transactions to occur, all business need leads. Without leads, nothing happens. It doesn’t matter if you are an exporter or an importer, you still need targeted leads. If you are an importer, you need supplier contacts. If you are an exporter, you need customer contacts. So how do you go about acquiring leads?
The slow and manual method of acquiring leads.
You can acquire leads using trade directories. Usually, the information is organized in such a way that it’s easy for anyone to locate the relevant contacts. The problem with this approach is that it’s very slow. How do you contact these companies? Are you going to email them or are you going to write to them manually? In this day and age, it doesn’t make sense to write letters. Email looks set to be the way to go. Technology is certainly here to stay.
Using search engines to source for leads.
Search engines are very useful websites that can help businesses locate the right type of leads. For instance, let’s say you are searching for gardening tools. You are selling these tools, so you certainly want to make sure that the tools come cheaply when you buy them. This will help increase your profit margins. Of course, you can’t compromise on quality. One way to buy gardening tools cheaply without compromising on quality is to buy at wholesale prices. When you buy at wholesale, you enjoy bulk discounts.
So you make a keyword search in the search engines, using these keywords – “wholesale gardening tools”. If you want very specific results, include the double quotes. Otherwise, just leave the double quotes out. If you want to source for leads in China, just add in the keyword “China” in your search phrase.
The quickest way to source for highly targeted leads – trade directories.
Trade directories exist for one sole purpose – that is to connect suppliers and customers from all over the world. For example, if you want more exposure for your company, you can list your company details in a trade directory. The information will be organized in different categories. Someone looking to find what you have to offer will go to that particular category, and they will attempt to make contact with you. In a similar fashion, you can also try to be active and seek out trade leads. Seeking out trade leads won’t cost you a single cent. All you have to do is to send out some emails using the contact information, and you may have taken the first step to forging a potentially fruitful partnership.
