Corporate & Project Solutions

Where steel is used and where melamine is used

Material here is a durability decision, not a styling one. Steel and sheet metal bodies carry the lockers, filing cabinets, card index units and bunk beds. The Metal Site Bed belongs on that side, with a powder-coated steel body and a slatted base system. Melamine is used where people touch the furniture every day: the 4-Door Wardrobe, the Wooden Site Bed and the Two-Drawer Bedside Cabinet all use melamine surfaces that clean easily and hold up in humid rooms. Dining areas introduce a third line: heat- and moisture-resistant Werzalit tops, wooden tops on stainless chrome T-legs, and beech plywood seats on powder-coated metal frames.

Compartment count is the configuration

In corporate buying what matters is not variety but whether one body scales. The steel locker family grows in a single language from a single-door unit to four-door and six-door bodies, and on to a Z-type interlocking six-door version. The 15-compartment locker unit concentrates the same idea into one carcass. That way a fifty-person facility is planned around repeats of one body type rather than thirty different products, and finishes, spare parts and installation stay consistent. On the archive side the same approach runs through shelving: a two-door steel filing cabinet and a high-capacity archive cabinet repeat one adjustable-shelf principle at different volumes.

Locks solve a different problem in each category

Lockable is not a feature on its own; what matters is what it separates from whom. In a changing room the lock keeps a member of staff’s own belongings secure through a shift, and each compartment is closed separately. The Card Index Filing Cabinet uses a central lock to close every drawer in one movement, and what is protected there is the integrity of a record set, not personal property. The Steel Filing Cabinet closes a folder archive behind a lockable door. The 15-compartment locker unit works with a lock per compartment and suits temporary storage in schools, facilities and visitor areas.

Fitting out accommodation takes more than a bed

Accommodation is usually planned by counting beds, but a room that actually works has four parts. A single bed or a two-tier bunk sets the area per person: the Steel Profile Bunk Bed is built for heavy-duty use with a thick profile frame, ladder and head and foot panels, and the Reinforced Steel Bunk Bed is the strengthened version of the same family. The wardrobe collects personal clothing through its hanging section and shelf layout. The bedside cabinet adds drawer space at head height, and its raised base keeps floor cleaning simple. Leave one of the four out and the room falls apart within weeks.

Decide the bed type before the bed count, because a bunk directly changes where the wardrobe and the bedside cabinet can physically go. In a two-tier layout the bedside unit moves to the side of the frame rather than the head of it, and the wardrobe needs clearance in front of its doors that a single-bed layout does not demand. Which side the ladder comes down on is part of the same plan.

Where to start

For staff accommodation and dormitory fit-out go to construction site furniture; for shift-based staff areas, locker cabinets; for folder and document archives, file and archive cabinets; and for communal dining, cafeteria tables and chairs. If the same project also covers office floors, review storage cabinets and the wider storage range, and see side chairs for the seating side.