Furniture wrapping
A furniture film is to be understood as the sticking of a piece of furniture with a hard-wearing plastic film . Derived from the veneer technique, the idea of wrapping pieces of furniture is a subsequent redesign or redesign of the furnishings. Private individuals and businesses use self-adhesive furniture film to implement individual ideas or specified corporate identity features.
term
Foil generally describes the sticking of objects with a self-adhesive film. In addition to wrapping furniture, full vehicle wrapping is one of the best-known forms of wrapping. The term is derived from the verb “foiling”, which describes the activity of film bonding.
origin
Furniture foil has been used in furniture production for many years. Originating from veneer technology , specially developed foils are pressed onto the wooden materials instead of thin real wood panels. The so-called finish foil reproduces the surface of the foil in all types of real wood in a realistic and, in some cases, haptic sense. It is also possible to design new creations for surface structures.
Film properties
With a thickness of at least 250 µ and an additional surface coating, often made of PVC , the film is heat-resistant, scratch-resistant and water-repellent. Depending on the proportion of plasticizers, the film can be deformed by applying heat manually.
Foiling process
In particular, the previous cleaning or degreasing plays a major role in ensuring that the film adheres permanently to the piece of furniture. It guarantees a grease-free surface for the adhesive surface. This is followed by the adjustment of individual blanks to the element to be glued. Depending on the properties of the film, the film can be deformed by the action of heat.
This results in different processing variants for furniture wrapping. On the one hand, with deformable film material, heat enables the film to be pulled seamlessly over corners and edges. For rigid (non-deformable) foils, a cut is made along the corner and folded over on the back using a simple folding technique. Subsequent heating to 100 degrees generates a new original point of the film, so that any previous deformation no longer retreats. If retreats can be seen during heating, these must be removed or re-glued, as the film is under too high a tension and will peel off from the substrate shortly after gluing.
Further development
Increasing further development of the film shows a trend towards paper film, which contains only a small proportion of artificial substances and at the same time maintains the resistance of a plastic film.