PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES
INNOVATION FROM TITUS
TITUS
ADDING VALUE TO THE RTA FURNITURE INDUSTRY
THROUGH IMPROVED PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES
The Titus Group develops, manufactures
and sells innovative precision components
and solutions that enhance the
competitive position of its customers
across a wide range of industries. Through
innovative product design, expertise in
high volume manufacturing and efficient
service, the Group helps business partners
to improve their productivity and quality
while reducing the cost of assembly,
manufacturing and allied processes.
The precision engineering competence
gained in the field of furniture hardware
manufacture, which is the Group’s core
activity, has now been applied to other
areas. These include multipurpose
damping technology, tooling and
ultrasound fastening techniques, die
casting, and automated assembly systems,
with applications in diverse industries,
such as furniture, home appliances and
automotive, as well as medical devices and
hardware. The furniture industry in the RTA category
has been facing three major challenges
over the past ten years: lack of wood mass,
simplicity or guaranteeing user assembly
friendliness, and flexibility of production
processes.
To address the problem of thousands of
people who consider ready-to-assemble
furniture as being time-consuming and
complicated to put together, with a lot
of opportunities to make mistakes in the
course of the assembly process, Titus
engineers delivered innovative, out-of-box
solution offering a simple approach for
tackling furniture assembling. The lack of wood mass is becoming an
increasing problem with the growth of the
population (market growth). Traditional
materials used by the industry such as
MFC chipboard, MDF and solid wood will
be adjusted in the future. The recycled
chipboard is already of great importance
for the furniture industry. The result of
the recycled chipboard is the quality of
the MFC panels themselves. Metal and
plastic inserts, poorly prepared chipboard
structure (larger particles) and reduced use
of adhesives cause a significant reduction
in the load capacity of such panels. In
addition to the challenges mentioned
above, the density of the furniture panels
decreases.
THE CHALLENGE AND ITS
SOLUTION
PRODUCT INNOVATION
The Titus innovation is intended for use in
a large segment of the furniture industry –
RTA (Ready to Assemble). This is a furniture
industry that provides packaged pre-
prepared furniture panels equipped with
all furniture fittings (included in the bag)
and installation instructions. The end user
assembles RTA furniture at home.
Usually, connection fittings in such panels
do not allow the expected load capacity.
Innovative expansion dowel with metal
expansion sleeves in new materials is
adapted and allows comparable load
capacities with dowel connections.
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