A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry
South East Asia has emerged as a large furniture-exporting region in the world. Wood is the predominant furniture raw material used in the region, although other raw materials are also available. As a large contract-manufacturing base, the South East Asian furniture industry has not developed its or...
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| description | South East Asia has emerged as a large furniture-exporting region in the world. Wood is the predominant furniture raw material used in the region, although other raw materials are also available. As a large contract-manufacturing base, the South East Asian furniture industry has not developed its original design and innovative capabilities, which has hampered its effort to produce greater value added furniture. New industrial policies and education schemes to diversify the furniture making raw materials are required to enhance the innovative capacity within the industry, if the regional furniture industry is to successfully shift to higher value added furniture manufacturing. |
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| spelling | upm-1167662025-07-07T03:36:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/116766/ A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry Ratnasingam, J. South East Asia has emerged as a large furniture-exporting region in the world. Wood is the predominant furniture raw material used in the region, although other raw materials are also available. As a large contract-manufacturing base, the South East Asian furniture industry has not developed its original design and innovative capabilities, which has hampered its effort to produce greater value added furniture. New industrial policies and education schemes to diversify the furniture making raw materials are required to enhance the innovative capacity within the industry, if the regional furniture industry is to successfully shift to higher value added furniture manufacturing. Springer Verlag 2003 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/116766/1/116766.pdf Ratnasingam, J. (2003) A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry. Holz als Roh - und Werkstoff, 61 (2). pp. 151-154. ISSN 0018-3768 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00107-003-0375-8?error=cookies_not_supported&code=48abcb8d-456a-4e44-948e-4fbb03fd8728 10.1007/s00107-003-0375-8 |
| spellingShingle | Ratnasingam, J. A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry |
| title | A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry |
| title_full | A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry |
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| title_full_unstemmed | A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry |
| title_short | A matter of design in the South East Asian wooden furniture industry |
| title_sort | matter of design in the south east asian wooden furniture industry |
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