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1. Types of Modular Office Workstations Modular furniture are the most popular trend in furniture currently and businesses are opting for these furniture for their immense flexibility, pocket friendliness and beautiful designs. So today we’ll be looking at 4 of the popular workstations that will help you to decide which one suits your need.

1. Pre-laminated Particle Board Workstations As the name suggests, these are completely made up of particle boards or preferably MDF. The boards used are pre laminated, means they come with a sheet of lamination on them preinstalled so they are faster to assemble than plywood boards. Thickness of the desktops are usually 25mm (1”) with 2mm of edge bands provided on all sides while the vertical sides and front dividers are 17 or 18mm (3/4”) with 0.8mm edge bands around the edges to protect the particle board from swelling due to moisture. These are the cheapest of all the workstations and are used where there is a constraint of budget or if the office is on rent. As these form the barebones of the workstation, some of the useful accessories to make the area efficient are: a. Softboards b. Drawer Pedestals c. Writing Boards d. Keyboard trays

2. 60mm Aluminium Profile Workstations You must have seen these workstations in plenty of offices are they are the most trusted and reliable type of workstations, making a perfect blend of both functionality and form. They feature a robust front partition made of aluminium profiles and particle board frame inside it. The tiled design extends the functionality by addition of potential features built in the frame; such as softboards and writing boards side by side for each user. Or you can just opt for any one of the mentioned tiles depending on the type of work. The front partition is made of 60mm (2.3”) thick aluminium extruded profiles which are powder coated to potentially any colour depending on need. The grooves in the profiles allow for installation of simple but helpful trays to store stationary and help de-clutter desk space. For enhancing the look of these workstations, different combination of colours for aluminium sections, softboards and the particle board can be used. As with the other workstations, these tops too come with a thickness of 25mm with 2mm edge band, while the sides are of 18mm thickness and 0.8mm edge band. There are various ways in which the layout of the workstations can be planned since they come with a lot of options like a standard cluster layout, triangular 3 seating layout, pentagon with 5 seating, or a simple cubicle layout.

3. 32mm Aluminium Profile Desking System These are desking systems which have a unique and modern feel to it and are quite trendy these days. The front ‘screen’ is made of 32mm (1 1/4”) thick and rest on the desktop instead of continuing to the floor. The legs are made of rectangular or square MS tubes of dimensions ranging from 1” to 2” depending upon the strength required. Aesthetically 2” square tubes look appealing but add to the cost of the workstation so usually 2”x1” rectangular tubes are used to keep it economical or a combination of both are used. There are several designs for legs such as Inverted C shaped, O shaped, inclined legs which are exclusive and have a great impact on the viewer. A modular screw jointed frame of MS tubes form the structure of the whole workstations to make the base durable and then the tops and screen are installed. One of the benefit of these desktops are that they make the room feel airy since they use lesser materials compared to other modular workstations.

4. Magnetic Glass Screen Desking This one is almost similar to the 32mm desking system with the exception that the screen used here is of glass. To make the screen functional, a sheet of metal is sandwiched between 2 pieces of glass and small magnet buttons are used to hang papers and notes on the screen. These glasses come in vibrant colours like red, yellow, green and blue which give a chic and ultra-modern look to your workspace. A more affordable version of this desking is possible by replacing magnetic screens by particle boards. Since magnetic glass comes at a relatively high price, replacing it with Particle board or MDF hugely reduces the cost while keeping the same aesthetics of the glass screen. The screens can be made by various other materials to adapt with the working requirements such as using a Writing board screen or a softboard screen rather than glass screen.

4. Advantages of Modular Furniture

Service based industries are gaining popularity throughout the world and more people are sitting in front of their desks. Looking at this, an emphasis is now increasingly put in the most crucial part of any office, i.e. workspaces. Businesses want to increase their efficiency as well as maintain the health and mood of their employees. So they have started to make sure their workplaces are well made and well equipped. Modular Furniture for Offices are seen as the best viable option as they have an edge over conventional furniture because they’re so much more than what the normal tables and desks can ever be! Now let’s look at 7 of the most important factors that make Modular Office Furniture so popular among the world:

1. Flexibility It’s in the name! Modular Furniture are a boon for the dynamic industries and other conventional offices alike. They give you infinite possibilities for planning your space and changing the layout in the future as you wish. These types of Workstations and office desks are made from modular parts which allow the user with minimal additions to transform it into something else. You want to separate one desk from another? No problem! Just detach the desk and with a couple of new parts you have changed the layout. The Aluminium Profile workstations are versatile if you are ever in a need for such changes. They come in ‘tiles’ where each tile can be referred to a seating width of 1, 2, 3 or even 4 people. They are attached to each other quite easily and removal is also very easy. Similar is the scenario of desking systems.

2. Cost The most important factor i.e. affordability is the great concern for every business out there, and modular furniture takes away the crown in this factor by a great margin. Numerous factors play a role in bringing the cost down of modular workstations, desks and cabinets. Number one reason is the time taken for making them is considerably less which brings down labour costs. Also quick assembly help in save labour further increasing you’re saving since time is money. If you think that this is where your savings end, then you’re mistaken. Hidden savings in money that you might not consider is the earlier start of their business; thus revenue starts to generate earlier if you opt for faster production modular furniture than conventional wood furniture. Quicker manufacturing, assembly and setting up means that you can start your business earlier thereby creating a win-win situation in all cases.

3. Future Expansion/ Moving Suppose you have a business located at a particular place and would like to move to another location. It might worry you due the cost that would possibly be incurred in moving all the prebuilt conventional desks. But with the inherent advantages of modular furniture, they can be disassembled into bits and

pieces furniture. They also fit in a portion of truck which would have taken you possibly several trips to move the same furniture. If you ever felt the need to move to a new location, contacting your furniture provider will surely help. You can hire labour yourself and ask your furniture provider to send plans and instructions to do it yourself. Or you can just tell them for services in disassembling, moving and reassembling these furniture. The latter is usually a better option as they are quite experienced in these works.

4. Replaceable Parts Sometimes it may happen that some part of the furniture turns out to be bad or gets scratched, bent or damaged to mishandling by the provider or some due to customer’s improper use. In such cases it becomes quite simple to swap out the damaged part with a new one by calling up your furniture provider. Send in the details of the damaged part and they’ll solve your grievances by sending in a new part!

5. Faster Manufacture When you think of ordering furniture for your new office, you might think of carpenters coming in your office sitting there for days, cutting boards, applying laminates, making boxes and cabinets and what not. But the scenario is different with modular furniture. The parts are completely manufactured in the factories with cutting edge high-tech machinery which provides the best possible accuracy along with fantastic speed! CNCs, planar saws, edge banding machines and drill presses make the manual carpentry look 19th century. These machines gives the manufacturers the possibility to hand you the furniture in less than a week’s time after ordering.

6. Faster to assemble Similar to the case above, faster assembly times are touted to be one of the USPs of Modular Furniture. Assembly workers bring in parts of furniture and start assembling on the spot with the help of the layout specified. If you’ve ordered your furniture from other country or state, the manufacturer might not be able to send in his employees for the job. So what they do is send in detailed instructions like pamphlets, 3D illustrations or even send you a video link showing the way they are to be assembled. A 100 seating workstation office can be set up in less than 2 or 3 days!

7. Eco friendly Everyone these days is in some or the other way an environmentalist. And a good amount of awareness has led to people wishing to choose eco-friendly alternatives of everyday items. Furniture being

predominantly wood based commodity, has led to cutting down of several hundreds of thousands of trees every year. An alternative to conventional Plywood is sought for the very same reason. Using metal as that alternative sounds promising since it can be recycled easily, has more strength and require lesser material. But it is far less appealing and is often noisy if used in drawers and file storages so they’re use is limited to workstation legs and base. MDF and Particle Board are the latest trend in modern woodworking needs. They are versatile and cheap for day to day usage with decent lifespan. They’re popular as they are cheaper than plywood and also made of waste products of wood and bagasse. But since they have lesser density than plywood, their use should be limited to light to medium loads. The use of particle board can bring down the costs by 18- 20% as MDF and particle boards come preinstalled with different design papers on them whereas plywood needs to be laminated.

8. Easy to transport Modular Workstations are pretty easy to transport as they are unassembled, use less space and can be packed densely in trucks. They are essentially pieces of particle board and aluminium frames or glass and are placed one upon the other. On the other hand file storages and cabinets are usually assemble in the factory itself. So if the order is of higher quantity then they can be send unassembled too and assembled on site. All of the pieces are packed with bubblewrap and cardboard wrapped so the order stays safe while transporting.

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You must have seen these workstations in plenty of offices as they are the most reliable type of workstations. These make them a perfect blend of both functionality and form. It features a robust front partition made of aluminum profiles and particle board frame inside it. The tiled design extends the functionality by adding potential features built in the frame; such as softboards and writing boards. Or you can just opt for any one of the mentioned tiles depending on the type of work. The front partition is made of 60mm thick aluminum extruded profiles which are powder coated to potentially any colour. The grooves in the profiles allow for installation of simple but helpful trays to store stationary and help de-clutter desk space. For enhancing the look of these workstations, different combination of colours for aluminum sections, softboards and the particle board can be used. As with the other workstations, these tops too come with a thickness of 25mm with 2mm edge band, while the sides are of 18mm thickness and 0.8mm edge band. There are various ways in which the layout of the workstations can be planned. They come with a lot of options like a standard cluster layout, triangular 3 seating layout, pentagon with 5 seating, or a simple cubicle layout