Furniture Design

Please for a moment in the shoes of a wood furniture producer in Peru. It gave the job to design, acquire raw materials, hire staff and implement the furniture I had in mind and which order you hope to accomplish. Within this process there is the so-called wood drying, very important because if not done, the wood is at risk of spoiling. But there's more, this process is not easy to achieve because it is expensive, as these cameras are imported and very expensive. What to do? Many risk and not use them, but on the way, finally lost.

Peru Peruvian engineer e Hanz Esteban Martinez knew of these problems and proposed a solution that was not easy to achieve, to build himself a wood oven so that the process was cheaper and was thus available to manufacturers furniture.

And he did nothing less than the Parque Industrial de Villa El Salvador, the birthplace of many of the most skilled furniture makers in the country.

"Now that the housing market grows and demands for quality joinery and consumers are increasingly demanding, it is essential that every furniture manufacturer has the advantages of having a wood drying kiln at its disposal," says Hanz Stephen, who plans to build more small furnaces available to SMEs.

Pure tenacity. His perseverance paid off. The technology that Esteban Martinez is a contribution to the furniture industry in Peru. His "Automatic Drying Wood" won first place in the Prototype category of Technological Innovation at the National Science and Technology in 2004. Since then things began to change for SMEs engaged in the business of designing furniture and other wood products.

"The drying process is a bottleneck in the furniture production. In other countries this has already been passed in Peru recently given due importance," says Hanz Stephen, who comes from a family engaged in the business of buying and selling wood.

Esteban Martinez Hanz studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences and furniture design at the Toulouse Lautrec Institute. He specialized in wood drying at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and wood design and construction at the University of Bio Bio, Concepción, Chile. Not bad for a Peruvian who likes to solve problems.

"Now that the housing market grows and demands for quality joinery and consumers are increasingly demanding, it is essential that every furniture manufacturer has the advantages of having a wood drying kiln at its disposal," says Stephen Hanz.

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The prices of these ovens are among the 30 thousand and 170 thousand suns, depending on their capacity and size, can vary from 30 000 cubic feet.

"The drying process is a bottleneck in the furniture production. In other countries this has already been passed in Peru recently given due importance.