Manufacturing of durable furniture for rural households in South Africa using glass reinforced polymers

EasyChair Preprint no. 610

Abstract

A number of South African rural households experience problems with roof leakage and flooding during rainy seasons and it results in the damage to their furniture. In most cases, the furniture is manufactured out of wood and these materials are not designed to withstand exposure of water for prolonged duration of time, their exposure limit is especially low that they can withstand enough water for cleaning. This paper aims to provide ordinary South Africans with durable, water resistant and aesthetically appealing furniture by providing the technical shrewdness for manufacturing the furniture using glass reinforced polymer (GRP) material. The employment of the recommendations from this paper will not only provide a solution to the green environment by saving the trees but also provide the personalized shapes and designs at economical costs, quicker as well as the creation of job opportunities for communities thus adding to the country’s gross domestic product.

Keyphrases: composite moulding, green environment., GRP furniture manufacturing

@Booklet{EasyChair:610,
  author = {Nyangani Mtimkulu and Tamba Jamiru and Lodewyk Beneke and Khumbulani Mpofu and Raisibe Pheme},
  title = {Manufacturing of durable furniture for rural households in South Africa using glass reinforced polymers},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 610},

  year = {EasyChair, 2018}}