Bespoke Fabrication

Poplar Products is dedicated to producing custom made and bespoke furniture that perfectly matches the wants and needs of our clients. As well of our extensive ranges of ready-made furniture, we also make a full range of chairs, stools, seating, tables and sofas that are made to client specification – all within our in-house family run factory. We’re proud of our decades-long legacy of creating bespoke furniture that has helped businesses, restaurants, bars, hotels, schools and universities to create fabulous landscapes for their people to work, play, eat and engage with one another.

Metal Fabrication

Poplar Products is proud to be a British brand and an active advocate of UK manufacturing, with its own in-house factory full of skilled professionals. Poplar is also proud to play an active role in supporting the domestic economy and wholeheartedly supports the wider benefits that buying British can bring.

Buying direct from British manufacturers can be both leaner and greener, with transportation reduced – when compared with international shipping. This can both drive costs down and help to considerably reduce your carbon footprint.

As well as improving the bottom line in terms of delivery costs and environmental impact, opting for metal furniture can make a real difference to the sustainability of your furniture. Metal fabrication is both robust and long-lasting. While wood chips easily and can quickly show signs of wear and tear, metal furniture endures and drives down the need for frequent replacement. Metal stands firm and will look great for years to come.

Steel, in particular, can have a very positive impact on the planet. Steel will last a very long time when made into a product, but this metal also has a potentially endless life cycle. The most recycled material on the planet – more than all other materials combined – steel has an extraordinarily high overall recycling rate of 88%. By using an easily recycled metal, like steel, and recycling it cuts the steel industry’s yearly energy consumption by around 75%.

Inherently long-lasting, durable and sustainable, steel is a highly viable material from both an economic and environmental point of view. Steel really is one of the only truly eco-friendly materials to make furniture with and a material that we’re highly skilled in using at Poplar Products.

Powder Coating

Alongside our use of steel in manufacturing, our use of Epoxy powder coating emphasises our commitment to environmentally friendly manufacturing. Epoxy powder is a high-tech finish used create a smooth and protective coating to our products. We electrostatically apply a free-flowing dry powder to metal and then cure under heat to form a robust skin. Epoxy powder does not require a solvent to adhere to metal.

Epoxy Powder-coated surfaces are more durable than other finishes on the market. Epoxy finishes offer a high resistance to chipping, corrosion, scratching, fading, and wearing. Strong and resilient, epoxy powder can be used both indoors and outdoors and will endure even the harshest of conditions.

Typically, conventional wet spray finishes contain solvents full of pollutants known as volatile organic compounds (or VOCs). VOCs can be incredibly harmful to both human health and the environment. Our epoxy powder contains no solvents and releases a zero-negligible rate of any impurities into the atmosphere.

Unused and excess powder can be collected and reused. This reduces waste considerably. Epoxy Powder coating is one of the most environmentally-friendly processes available in manufacturing. Hugely flexible in terms of colour matching, our in-house Epoxy Powder will meet colour requirements for any interior or external space.

Please take a look at our Bespoke Fabrication Gallery Here and give us a call today on 0113 273 2288 to discuss your specific requirements and to find out how we can help you.