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Tambour cupboards are a recent addition to office furniture ranges. Their key feature is that they have roller-shutter type doors that roll into the side of the cupboard. This makes them much more reliable and user-friendly than the type that roll upwards into the top of the cupboard. Because the doors roll into the side of the cupboard they take up much less space that traditional filing

Height adjustable desks can be specified for a number of purposes:
  • For people with reduced mobility or other special need, for example to enable a wheelchair to be pushed under the desk. In some cases it can be a requirement of the Disability Discrimination Act to provide such facilities.
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  • For people such as architects, graphic designers etc who often work either standing up or sitting

This question is very difficult to answer as it depends on so many factors. The range of pricing in the office desking market varies from less than £100 for a rectangular 18mm thick melamine desktop supported on the most basic of square steel tube frames  to over £4,000 for a hand built wood veneer desk built in the traditional way by experienced craftsmen.




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Most general purpose office furniture is made from a man made product called melamine faced chipboard or MFC. This comprises a substrate, usually chipboard, but sometime medium density fibreboard, over which, on both sides is pressed a decorative paper finish impregnated with melamine resin. This process is carried out at high temperature and pressure and is called polymerisation. The result is a