Mahogany furniture is known as the nobility in furniture. In recent years, it has been popular among consumers and prices have risen steadily. Behind the huge business opportunities, many counterfeit and shoddy products began to enter the market. The reporter has conducted in-depth investigations over the past few days and found that many of the mahogany furniture on the market, such as ebony, red sandalwood and black sandalwood, do not exist at all. The base materials are mostly ordinary wood or even miscellaneous wood. These furniture climbed into the high branches of the mahogany under the name of the imaginary, and the price may be more than ten times that of ordinary wood furniture.

This is fake

Red sandalwood ebony does not exist at all

"Is this red sandalwood a mahogany?" "Yeah, we are selling mahogany furniture!" In a mahogany sales store in a large furniture city in Nanping, Chongqing, the salesman patted the reporter to the reporter. The reporter visited a number of mahogany furniture dealerships in the city and found many wooden tables, chairs, coffee tables, sofa furniture, and the ebony or red sandalwood on the label. These furniture prices are similar to rosewood furniture such as rosewood and chicken wing wood. For example, a set of 10 sets of tables and chairs with a nominal base material of red sandalwood is priced at around 50,000 yuan.

The reporter visited a number of mahogany sales stores and found that many stores such as red sandalwood and ebony have sales. The shopkeepers all said that red sandalwood, ebony, red sandalwood and green sandalwood are all mahogany. However, they did not provide any proof of the source of this material.

Fuyuan furniture owner Jin Rong has been in the mahogany furniture industry for 20 years. He told reporters that he now only manages several products of rosewood, rosewood and rosewood, red sandalwood and ebony. He does not want to touch it, nor dare to touch it. "I don't want to mess up the signs for so many years." Jin Rong said that at present, there are many ebony, red sandalwood, green sandalwood and purple ebony in the market. He doesn't understand whether it is scorpion wood, but absolutely Not the national standard mahogany.

The reporter reviewed the National Standards for Redwoods of the People's Republic of China (Redwood GB/T18107-2000) and found that the main categories of redwoods are rosewood, rosewood, fragrant wood, black rosewood, red rosewood, ebony, and stripes. 8 categories of ebony and chicken wing wood. The ebony, red sandalwood, and black rosewood are not the species of the redwood species specified by the national standard. Fang Wen, director of the Garden and Flower Research Institute of the Municipal Forestry Research Institute, after reading the "Chinese Flora" (the world's most recorded book), also affirmed that the red sandalwood and ebony wood does not exist.

Fraudulent means

Wood mix and match makes you really difficult to distinguish

A military dealer familiar with the inside story, Wang Jun (a pseudonym), said that the phenomenon of red sandalwood and ebony fish is very common. Many merchants use ordinary wood materials, which are polished, soaked, dried, coated, re-stained, painted and painted to create a set of "redwood" furniture. Or, they put in the fake material in the fake material, making people really difficult to distinguish.

Wang Jun revealed that he had seen the process of red sandalwood and ebony furniture turned into "redwood" furniture in a mahogany furniture factory opened by a friend in Guangdong Province. The workers mix ordinary wood with real mahogany, and the surface uses real red veneer. The proportion of common wood materials is about 70%, and some even as high as 80%. The real mahogany is only 30%, but at most 40%.

“The prices of these ordinary woods are mostly between 1000 and 1500 yuan/ton, while the lower-end chicken wing wood in mahogany furniture is also 5000~6000 yuan/ton.” Wang Jun calculated the account and used the hedgehog in mahogany furniture. For example, in the case of red sandalwood, the cost of a set of 8 sets is about 26,000 yuan. If it is produced by mashup, the cost is only over 10,000 points. At the same time, the mix-and-match production methods are mostly machine-engraved and can be mass-produced. Wang Jun said: "This factory mainly engages in wholesale, and can sell hundreds of sets every year. Many customers across the country take the initiative to get goods in batches."

Mao Lizhong, the general manager of Redwood Furniture Group Chongqing Company, told reporters that the market threshold of mahogany furniture is not high. Just hire a few skilled craftsmen and buy a mahogany engraving machine to work. “Many so-called 'redwood' furniture are produced by family-style workshops without qualifications and certificates. Similar 'mothers' and 'brothers' are all over the country.” The reporter found that at present, Chongqing’s native red sandalwood and ebony And other products, originating from Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hebei and other places.

Chaos

Miscellaneous wood rosewood profits up to 10 times

In recent years, the price of mahogany furniture has skyrocketed. A set of ordinary hardwood tables and chairs is only a few thousand dollars, while a set of lobular rosewood mahogany chairs has a market price of more than 100,000. The huge price gap has caused some unscrupulous businessmen to squint and give some hardwood furniture a name that is so ugly that they can climb the high branches of the mahogany.

Li Shanggong, the owner of Chongqing Huixiange mahogany furniture, told reporters that the rosewood in mahogany furniture is hardwood, black and black, dignified and heavy. It is the best. The real rosewood market price is as high as one million yuan a ton, good red sandalwood material. Even more than 3 million yuan / ton. "Many merchants have names such as ebony, black rosewood, red sandalwood, etc., and they have the suspicion of playing the 'edge ball'. The purpose is to raise the price of furniture." Li Shanggong said.

An industry insider who asked not to be named revealed that some of the raw materials of the so-called red sandalwood are iron wire and other varieties; the raw materials of ebony are the varieties of tempera, windmill wood, etc. These wood species are of good quality. In fact, many manufacturers do not use this wood in order to reduce costs, but do not mix all kinds of wood. He calculated the account for the reporter, a set of 8 sets of striped ebony mahogany furniture, costing more than 50,000 yuan. If the windmill wood similar to this wood texture is used as the base material, the cost is not more than 20,000 yuan according to the price of 4000~5000 yuan per ton of raw materials. According to the industry insiders, in order to pursue higher profits, some manufacturers even put the cheaper wood into the inside, and the profit may even be as high as 10 times.

Fuyuan furniture owner Jin Rong said that these so-called ebony and red sandalwood furniture are similar to the low-end products in the mahogany. Most of the target groups are those who have certain economic strength, want to change their home decoration style, and wait for appreciation. Therefore, the sales of such furniture in Chongqing is good. According to his estimation, it currently accounts for about one-third of the total market sales of mahogany.

Difficult to detect components blindly pursued to encourage fake flames

The "China Dark Premium Hardwood Furniture Standard" (hereinafter referred to as "Standard") issued in 2008 stipulates that the mahogany furniture sold by the merchant must indicate the product name, wood, accessories, wood origin, quality grade, paint, specifications, etc., and the valuable hardwood The furniture must have a fixed metal sign. Why are there so many fisheyes in the mahogany furniture market?

Director of Quality Supervision Department of Chongqing Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau said that mahogany furniture belongs to professional forest products. They can only detect whether the product has quality problems and cannot detect its components and tree species. At the same time, some insiders said that the "standard" is not a mandatory standard, in fact, the quality of mahogany furniture still depends on industry self-discipline.

Mao Lizhong, the general manager of Chongqing Redwood Furniture Group, said that the production of mahogany furniture is relatively high. For example, the production of a set of 10 sets of Sian rosewood mahogany furniture costs at least 300,000 yuan, and is experienced in material cutting, material building and baking. After waiting for a series of procedures, it takes 3 months to leave the factory. Mahogany furniture, which is significantly lower than the market price, is definitely a big risk. "Because of the lack of basic knowledge, many consumers can't judge the authenticity. At the same time, because the furniture has to be tested, it is necessary to take the materials. For the consumers, it is impossible to knock out a part of the furniture to buy the furniture. Consumers have passed and passed. This has contributed to the arrogance of counterfeiters to a certain extent," Maori said.

latest progress

New national standard implemented in August

Mahogany furniture will carry "ID card"

Recently, the national standard "General Technical Conditions for Redwood Furniture" was approved by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standardization Administration, and will be officially implemented on August 1 this year. Some insiders said that if the new national standard is implemented, it will effectively reduce market chaos.

Mao Lizhong, the general manager of Chongqing Redwood Furniture Group Chongqing Company, said that the product quality express card is a highlight of the new national standard. At present, the mahogany furniture sold in the market is simply labeled with the dimensions and materials, and there is no uniform specification. The new national standard stipulates that mahogany furniture products must be equipped with a national uniform product quality express card. If the consumer finds that the product has a problem, the express card can be used as evidence for the appeal and claim.

The reporter checked the current "Redwood National Standard" and can see that the standard lacks detailed and explicit provisions on product manuals, product contracts and product labels. The "General Technical Conditions for Mahogany Furniture" not only made uniform requirements for product labeling, but also supplemented the product contract, which clarified the contents covered by the product manual. Li Shanggong believes that the new national standard will also require all sellers to provide after-sales service, such as product warranty, product return, product warranty conditions beyond the warranty conditions and warranty period. At the same time, the biggest difference of the new national standard is that if entering the judicial appraisal, consumers and manufacturers must provide product instruction manual, product quality assurance card, and product certification.

Zhao Keping, vice chairman of the China Furniture Industry Association and president of the Chongqing Furniture Industry Association, told reporters that the new national standard not only plays a key role in regulating the production process, market circulation and applicable materials of mahogany furniture, but also makes consumers define the mahogany furniture more. Clearly, it is expected to curb the chaos in the market.

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