MANUFACTURER: NOT JUST WOODEN FURNITURE, BUT TANGIBLE CARING PIECES

We are “PODIUM” factory, long years of experience in producing wooden furniture. Learn how we can create furniture pieces that care about you.

In the area of ​​​​over 50,000 square meters in Chonburi, Thailand, a ‘PODIUM’ furniture factory is entering its 40th year as a highly-skilled wooden furniture manufacturer with the commitment and expertise in creating woodworks received from a long period of producing furniture for both international and domestic distribution under the PODIUM brand.

Over the past four decades, our factory has produced various practical and contemporary wooden furniture with different designs to serve many purposes of customer use. It starts from wooden chairs, tables, cabinets to a fit-in modular furniture collection and as much solid wood furniture as you can imagine. We create these products based on combining natural materials, design, fineness, and technology to get the furniture that can bring a different experience to each user.

Podium’s grandest intention is to produce high-quality solid wood furniture with uniquely beautiful designs and attention to every detail of the woodworks. Doing this requires us to have both ‘fineness’ in production and the ‘durability’ of the products. We also aim to run an environmentally conscious furniture business in material selection and production processes. Podium promises that we will be a Thai wooden furniture brand that cares about you and takes care of your world as best as possible by delivering environmentally conscious products to you.

At Podium factory, we believe that the fineness in forming and finishing our woodworks until we get each detail-oriented wooden piece of furniture firmly depends on the expertise and strong attention to detail of our skilled artisans with long experience in woodworking. In comparison, the durability of the workpiece comes from the machine’s technology and precision that requires the operator’s skills and the production control program that has been developed uniquely for the Podium furniture factory.

To tell about the fineness of our production process, we might start with how Podium selects high-quality wood as the primary material for the furniture we deliver to our customers. Podium mainly imports all materials such as American oak, walnut and ash, including German beech, from the suppliers who share the same ‘value’ to environmental sustainability, have proper forest management and are FSC certified. We choose the lumber from sources free from genetically modified trees, child labors, endangered species, oppression of indigenous people’s rights in the production sites, and proper control of water quality and biodiversity. It is how we can bring sustainability to the international community from the first step. And of course, these quality materials are the essential part of creating furniture that will last a lifetime.

We entirely understand that the paint used in furniture manufacture directly affects the user’s health. So, Podium chooses the topcoat that has been F4 Star certified from Japan, which is non-formaldehyde and does not contain other pollutant materials that adversely affect the users, especially respiratory system, eyes, throat etc. Absolutely, we can say that our products will not cause sick building syndrome or “SBS” problems for our customers. Also, our furniture is highly resistant to stains and easy to clean with the heavy-duty urethane and fine ceramics in the topcoat.

This fineness is how we show our care for you by taking the best care of you with our products.

As for the technology we use in the plant, choosing and bringing an efficient innovation to operate in the production process is inevitable. That is why we have implemented the high-end five-axis CNC machines in production under the Podium brand. They are precision cutting tools that help us better reach and meet our customers’ requirements. Applying this technology can help support the creation of workpieces when the ‘human hands’ could not be enough for perfection in every aspect of the products, whether it’s the details of woodworking, efficiency, and safety in use. Apart from the equipment itself, other essential factors contributing to a higher level of cutting quality are the operators’ skills, expertise, and experience working with these high-end machines.

No matter how complex the furniture design is, Podium can make it come true through the five-axis CNC machines with tools that move in five different directions simultaneously, unique control programs and the experience of the operators. We can achieve the goal of producing accurate and durable wooden furniture that looks exactly like what our designers and research and development team want them to be and improve our entire production process and make a breakthrough in furniture manufacturing with the technology we choose.

This fact lets you know how our innovation is the key to a perfect piece of furniture with a variety of designs, and it could help you receive more durable products every time you choose Podium.

Throughout the past years, our collections have been exported to many famous furniture showrooms around the world. It is because of our products’ outstanding designs, meticulousness, and the international standard we meet by adopting ISO 9001: 2015 quality management systems to design and manufacture solid wood furniture. Podium factory is certified by internationally recognized institutions such as SGS and TÜV Rheinland.

Certainly, we need Podium’s production quality to meet the international standard to ensure that our brand can consistently provide wooden furniture that meets customer and regulatory requirements. This guarantees that our customers will always receive high-quality standardized furniture from the Podium showroom. In addition, our products will not pose any hazards in use, are durable enough to be passed on from generation to generation and respond to practical use as furniture should be.

The prominent example of Podium’s quality management system is in-plant resource management, especially the ‘solid wood’ we use to produce furniture. Podium completely understands that each type of wood has different natural properties through our learning from decades of experience in the industry, allowing us to choose the right wood for the right goods. We understand what kind of wood should be selected to make each piece of furniture for practical usage. It includes how we handpick every sheet of timber with a similar natural color to produce the furniture that requires to be laminated, such as tabletops, cabinet bodies, and cabinet doors, for the consistent color in the furniture and its long-term beauty for your space.

Moreover, choosing timber with the proper size for each piece of furniture and well-planned making patterns of every woodwork by drawing each furniture model on a piece of wood to see how it should be cut to minimize wood waste caused Podium to take it to the next level of being a furniture factory that has a zero-waste production line. Therefore, we now cost-effectively use natural resources and are as environmentally friendly as possible. We also deliver wood scraps from the production to nearby residents to be developed into products that create value and income for the whole community for a better quality of life.

If you are interested in knowing more about Podium, we invite you to experience our products at Podium showroom, Sathorn, Bangkok, or view our furniture catalogue online
and visit our online shop right now.

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