Coffee tables, which material is the best to make them last?

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• Coffee tables, which material is the best to make them last?
• Wooden bar tables
• Bar tables produced with synthetic materials
• Tavolisedie.com, the best bar tables available at competitive prices

What is the best material for a bar table? Thanks to technological innovation in recent years, the materials used for the production of bar tables have been considerably improved in order to adapt to market demand.

The great evolution of the materials used for the creation of bar tables consists basically in an expansion and improvement in the processing of different types of materials.

Today we want to give you some food for thought about the best materials used for the production of bar tables.

Wooden bar tables

Wood has represented in the past and continues to represent today one of the best materials used for the production of tables. Wooden bar tables are elegant, refined and able to give that feeling of warmth and conviviality that other materials are hardly able to replicate.

Every year there are many novelties proposed by companies operating in the furniture sector, of tables made with the help of wood. Wooden tables are usually made with a limited selection of materials. Semi-hard and porous maple is one of the main woods used for the production of tables. Maple wood is characterised by an evident grain with compact fibres of light colours ranging from white to pinkish yellow. One of the main qualities of maple wood is its excellent ability to preserve its colour for a long time.

Ash wood is used instead for the production of tables characterized by a rustic and essential design. It is a particularly robust and at the same time flexible wood, used more for its aesthetic appearance than for its ease of processing. Also in this case it is a wood with a tendentially light colour, which varies from white tending to grey to light brown.

Mahogany wood is a particularly hard and resistant material, characterised by the presence of many veins and a reddish colour. This wood has an extremely fine and uniform grain, and because of its remarkable compactness it is preferred to walnut wood for the production of tables.

Walnut is a brown wood with particularly dark and sometimes black veins. This wood has always been considered one of the best materials for the production of tables, both from an aesthetic point of view and for its great ductility. An interesting aspect of walnut wood, its important use in Italy during the Risorgimento period, replacing the use of oak wood.

Beech is a semi-hard wood, compact and characterized by uniform veins. Its colour tends to light cream and can change to pink in case of steam treatment. Beech wood is distinguished by the presence of small, shiny patches, which are visible even if the material is coloured.

Metal bar tables

Another very common material for the production of bar tables is certainly metal. The latter is an extremely ductile, resistant and particularly malleable material. Metal, in its various alloys, is probably the best material for the production of an outdoor table.

There are different alloys and types of metals with which a bar table can be made. Steel is the name given to an alloy composed mainly of carbon and iron (carbon present in a percentage not exceeding 2.11%). If the percentage of carbon is more important the material becomes cast iron.

Aluminium is a particularly ductile and silver-coloured metal used by the furniture industry for the production of tables and other types of furniture. Aluminium is mainly extracted from bauxite minerals. The main advantages of this material are its lightness, strength and softness.

Cast iron, also called "ferraccio" until the nineteenth century, precisely because of its lower quality compared to other materials and because of its worse workability is a metal alloy obtained by reduction or hot treatment of iron ores. This material is rarely used for the production of tables.

Iron is the metal that is extracted from its minerals; very interesting is the fact that on the earth's crust iron is never found in its elementary state, that is metallic, but always in the form of compounds, in which it is always present in an oxidised state. Iron is a material widely used for the production of tables and in particular bar tables.

Bar tables produced with synthetic materials

There are many synthetic materials commonly used for the production of bar tables. Plastic laminate is a very common material for the production of many kitchen table models. It is a material obtained with the aid of lamination processes and commonly used in the furniture and furnishing manufacturing sector. Tables and other furnishings are covered with wooden panels such as chipboard, tamburati, MDF and other types of materials.

Melamine, together with formaldehyde, is the raw material used for the production of melamine and thermosetting resins; the latter are frequently used and also called monomer.

Polypropylene or PP is a thermoplastic polymer capable of showing different tactics. We can say that the most interesting material from an industrial and commercial point of view is certainly isotactic polypropylene: it is a particular semi-crystallized polymer, whose peculiarity is the presence of a considerable breaking load, a low density and a remarkable thermal and abrasion resistance.

Polycarbonate is instead a thermoplastic polymer obtained from carbonic acid. Polycarbonates are able to resist mineral acids, petrol, aliphatic hydrocarbons, fats, oils, alcohols (except methyl alcohol and water below 70 degrees). Above the temperature of 70 degrees the water attacks the polymer, favouring gradual chemical decomposition. The biodegradability of this material is particularly poor and therefore requires considerable time.

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