nelsonic
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4 years ago @iteles I've prepared this email to follow up on the telephone conversation I had earlier today. Basically I'm just confirming that I want to request some samples (which obvs I will pay for!) for delivery this week.
Caro Vitor,
Muito obrigado por atender a minha chamada telefônica e esclarecer as minhas dúvidas hoje.
Como lhe disse, estamos interessados em encomendar umas placas de contraplacado para fabrico de mobília personalizada. Pesquisamos os produtos no vosso site e concluímos que o LamiMAT será o mais indicado aos nossos fins: https://www.laminarmad.com/aplicacoes.php?ap=3#ap
Gostaríamos então de pedir umas amostras do contraplacado conforme o acordado. O tamanho das placas que quereríamos encomendar é de 2,50 x 1,22 com a grossura de 15mm. Se nos conseguir indicar o preço destas placas, agradecíamos, já que queremos combinar uma entrega o quanto antes.
O nosso endereço é:
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Planeamos encomendar várias paletes de contraplacado ao longo dos próximos meses. Temos preferência por um fabricante de alta qualidade nacional já que o nosso fornecedor actual importa as placas do estrangeiro. Precisamos apenas de confirmar a viabilidade financeira.
Atenciosamente,
Nelson Correia
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iteles
As you may be aware, we are making almost all of the furniture for the house on-site. Our reasoning for custom-making all the furniture is described in: furniture#why
This issue is intended to capture our quest to find a good supplier of the primary material for constructing our furniture: Plywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plywood
There are quite a few suppliers who deliver to our area, this is our shortlist in reverse order:
Leroy Merlin - https://www.leroymerlin.pt/Produtos/Madeiras/Paineis/WPR_REF_18896675
The price per m2 is "OK", but the quality is not great. The faces are B/C quality. And the boards are often warped. That's fine for "construction" but painful on a high precision laser cutting machine. Also we have no idea where they are produced and how far they have to travel to get to here ... 🤦 Leroy is a French company majority owned by billionaire Gérard Mulliez ($30Bn) so there's a good chance that it's sourced from the cheapest producer and shipped quite far.
MC Madeiras - We placed an order from them last year when building the Maslow CNC: https://github.com/nelsonic/learn-cad-cam-cnc/issues/71 the material was "OK" but had quite a few visible patches; clearly not A-grade (furniture quality). Their main business is importing "exotic" woods as opposed to sheet materials. So I'm not surprised that their Ply wasn't the best. I would use them again for structural wood.
Banema - Is the supplier recommended by Pedro (our 20+ year XP technical carpenter) https://www.banema.pt/pt/catalogo/paineis-de-madeira/contraplacado/betula
The product looks like it's top quality! The only "down side" is that Sveza sveza.com
is made in Russia which means it requires a lot of fossil fuels to transport it to PT ... 😕
Last but not least, the most local of all:
Spoke to the Owner of the company Vitor Vieira:
937860080v.vieira@laminarmad.comand he said he can bring over a few samples this week as they have a delivery scheduled for a local manufacturer.In case you're wondering about the privacy of me including this data in the issue, it's
public: https://pt-pt.facebook.com/Laminarmad/photos/lamiply-plus-desenroladocontraplacado-multicamadas-em-v%C3%A1rias-espessurassolicite-/1459036384326420/