The overflowing explosion-proof gas spring was born to promote the safe development of the global swivel chair industry

From August 12th to 15th, 2016, the 32nd "International Dragon" Furniture Exhibition and the 22nd Asian International Furniture Materials Expo were held in Shengjiang, Longjiang Town, Shunde District, Foshan City, which attracted strong attention from the industry at home and abroad.

 

At the scene, the reporters were most impressed by the high-end swivel chairs that were beautifully designed and expensive. This can not help but remind the reporter of the eye-catching magic swivel chair that the four mentor of "China Good Voice" sat. It is said that the four swivel chairs are all shipped from the UK, each costing up to 800,000 yuan, called "the most luxurious high-priced swivel chair."

 

At present, the global swivel chair industry is in a growth period, and the industry space is broad. Despite the downturn in the world economy in recent years, the entire swivel chair industry still shows a clear improvement trend, with a market share of over 90%.

 

However, due to the uneven quality, people have been happy and worried about the swivel chair industry in recent years.

 

 

For example, in the past two years, there was a news report saying that when a female white-collar worker in Xiamen was sitting on a swivel chair, suddenly the chair exploded and the butt blossomed... For a time, many netizens worried that the office workers in the office are almost all in this type of pressure. Lifting the swivel chair, isn't everyone sitting underneath a "time bomb"?

 

Then, why does it explode when sitting on a swivel chair? In the future life, how can we prevent or avoid such a thing? Recently, the reporter interviewed the first Chinese patent application for “safe gas spring” and “explosion-proof gas spring”. Professional manufacturer - Mr. Huang Jing, General Manager of Shunde Fengyi Safety Gas Spring Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Foshan City, Guangdong Province.

 

■ Do it, do the best ■

 

1. Reporter: Hello, Mr. Huang, in many people's hearts, the swivel chair is a very elegant and beautiful furniture. It can even be said that the high-end personalized swivel chair represents the master's temperament and the quality of life. What do you think?

 

A: I very much agree with this view. Nowadays, in the office buildings of the whole country and the whole world, almost all of these pneumatic lift chairs are favored by consumers. I also like to sit on my own, especially the boss chair.

 

The swivel chair can give people a magical feeling. When "China Good Voice" just started to fire, I even used the swivel chair to simulate the scene at home - the TV is playing "China Good Voice", I am facing the TV like the big-name tutor. When I heard a good voice, I suddenly took a chair and turned it over... that feeling is really different.

 

2. Reporter: As far as I know, the most central device of the pneumatic lift chair is the gas spring, and you are an expert in this field. What do you think?

 

A: I have won the prize. I am just doing what a company should do, and it is responsible for it. The pneumatic lift chair is a very popular new type of chair, the core part of which is indeed the gas spring device (also known as the pneumatic rod) under the seat. There is a cylinder in the gas spring, and the swivel chair is controlled by the up and down movement of the piston rod in the cylinder to control the lifting. The cylinder is filled with nitrogen. Under normal circumstances, the purity of nitrogen should reach 99.9%. Below this value, there may be safety hazards. A safe gas spring must be in accordance with the standard. If the parts and raw materials are cut corners, there is no way to talk about safety.

 

3. Reporter: As far as I know, in China, Fengyi is the top ten brands in the industry. It has a good reputation in the eyes of customers. Please tell us about how you did it.

 

A: Fengyi Company was founded by others before. I bought it in 2009. I used to work in software engineering, so I didn't understand the gas spring industry at first. After I bought it, the factory was managed by a partner (the partner at the time was a technical expert in this area). However, due to fierce competition in the industry and the financial crisis, the partners always told me in the past two years: "The cost must be controlled. If you want to make a profit, you must reduce the procurement cost..."

 

And I know that lowering the cost of purchasing means that the material of the product is worse, which will inevitably touch the safety red line of the gas spring. I feel that this is only a dead end! Because when a product threatens the safety of consumers, will such a product have a market? Even if it can survive and survive, it will never be possible to do it for a long time! So I and The partners began to disagree. I said that this is not my style. I must start reform. When we open this factory, we must do business, not just business, and see the immediate interests!

 

To this end, I put down other businesses in the family and concentrated on running a rich company. I am also born in the countryside. I am not afraid of hardships. I work with my employees every day in the factory and learn from them humbly... I spent three years to understand and explore the gas spring industry. Naturally, the factory did not make money in the past three years. In addition, the opinions were inconsistent and the partners were shaken. Therefore, I gave the partners 500,000 yuan in early 2012, and Fengfeng became my sole proprietorship company.

 

However, from that year onwards, Feng Yi embarked on a road of enterprise that allows peers to respect and look at each other. From 2012 to 2014, although I only had two years, I have successively acquired three peer companies through the allocation of other business funds of the family, and effectively integrated the machines, talents and technologies of the three companies, making the company more efficient. Zi has become a powerful enterprise in the same industry. At the same time, I let the company's service team align with the service attitude of the five-star hotel and send the business team to professional institutions for study and training. These initiatives did cost a lot of money, so many of my friends said that I was too risky and even sweated for me.

 

However, I did not make a mistake, and soon I saw a turnaround that surprised me: in 2012, the company's output value reached 10 million, in 2013 it rose to 13 million, in 2014 it reached 17 million, in 2015 exceeded 20 million, and in 2016 reached 25 million. completely fine. These performances seem to be few, but do you know? In 2009, when I bought Fengyi, its annual output value was only 1 million, but now it has more than 20 times, so I feel so exciting. More determined to "do the best, only the best to last the longest" determination.

 

In 2015, I participated in MBA corporate training and the pattern opened again. I made up my mind to push the company to a higher position, and no longer fight the price with the peers. I want to do a product that is different from my peers and do a safety gas spring that can be truly "explosion-proof". To this end, we spent a year to adjust, and put "the choice of overflow, let you rest assured - focus on the safest gas spring" as the company's product direction and corporate strategy.

 

■Why does the swivel chair explode? ■

 

4. Reporter: Huang’s courage and courage are admirable. However, consumers are most concerned about the fact that today, when swivel chairs are extremely common, why are there explosions? How do you think about this problem?

 

A: The explosion of the pneumatic lift chair is actually due to the fact that the gas spring that generates the lifting function in the chair has a problem, but the quality is not enough! Usually, the load test and impact test tolerance of a qualified gas spring is 200- 250 kilograms, can do 10 to 300,000 times of damage, equivalent to five to ten years of normal use.

 

As I said before, the main reasons for the explosion of gas springs are: 1. The material of the air pressure wall is poor and not strong enough. The manufacturer maximizes the benefits and saves the cost that should not be saved. 2. The accessories are gas springs. The internal organs, like people, which accessories are not used properly, will affect the effect of the whole gas spring, so the most important thing is of course the inside accessories. If you falsify, it will also bury the hidden danger of the explosion; 3. The pressure chamber seal Not tight, causing gas to escape, or nitrogen purity is not enough, frequent lifting of the chair, it will also cause the possibility of explosion. Of course, these unqualified gas springs are basically produced by counterfeit small workshops.

 

The gas springs produced by regular manufacturers are strictly implemented in accordance with national and international regulations. For example, the nitrogen concentration of the filled gas pressure bar is above 99.9%, and the pressure is about one or two atmospheres. Therefore, under normal circumstances, when a person sits on a chair, although the pressure of nitrogen is increased by the extrusion pressure, it is still within the limit of the air pressure expansion, and no problem occurs.

 

5. Reporter: How is your company doing this in terms of “safety” and “explosion protection” of gas springs?

 

A: For more than ten years, we have been continuously carrying out technical transformation, process introduction, equipment renewal and so on.

 

For example, in 2009, when I first purchased Fengyi, I invested a lot of money to improve the technical level, improve production equipment, expand the scale of the plant, and establish a new marketing system. From 2012 to 2014, I acquired three peer companies, further strengthening the technical team, workers, equipment and other strengths. In particular, advanced production equipment such as die casting, welding, bending, polishing, etc. have been added, and many links have achieved automated production.

 

In the past two years, our company has also passed the international certification of various quality management systems, successfully developed foreign markets, and cultivated a large number of stable foreign procurement customers. If there is no guarantee of safety technology, it will not work.

 

In terms of corporate culture, I also worked hard. I like to build young teams, instill in them advanced thinking, innovative ideas, and send them to participate in service, sales and other skills training, holiday chartered cars let them travel, give employees birthday parties and so on. Therefore, our products work very fine and innovative.

 

In 2015, our company once again made breakthroughs in technology, and cooperated with a number of big-name electronic and electrical companies to develop special gas spring products across industries, and received praise from customers. This "cross-border" R&D of our company is the earliest in the industry, and it also marks that our company's technology is in the leading position in the industry. In order to reflect our company's professional focus in the field of gas springs, in 2015, our company upgraded to Shunde Fengyi Safety Gas Spring Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and became the first company in China to obtain the patent and copyright of “explosion-proof” and “safe” gas spring technology. .

 

6. Reporter: I think that if every manufacturer has your own spirit of exploration and social responsibility, the phenomenon of "swimming chair explosion" will be very, very little. Do you think so?

 

A: It is true. If every manufacturer can ensure that each gas spring is of good quality, there will be no explosion. However, at present, China's gas spring market is still very imperfect, and even can be said to be mixed.

 

First, there have been many small workshops for gas spring production without technical support or even qualification. In order to reduce the cost, those small workshops will not consider the safety problem. The materials they use are relatively poor, the workmanship is not fine, and the work is cut corners. Although the gas spring is cheap, it hides hidden dangers. Small workshops often counterfeit the products of our regular manufacturers to the market.

 

Second, the swivel chair market is not standardized. Nowadays, swivel chairs can be seen everywhere in the furniture market. Any small shop can be sold. The price of swivel chairs is generally from one hundred yuan to several hundred yuan. Moreover, most of the swivel chairs are assembled on site by merchants and then sold locally. Merchants first purchase seat backs, seat covers, turntables, handrails, etc. from the furniture factory, and then assemble the accessories such as gas springs and pulleys. This kind of mode makes the inferior gas springs have a market, because the qualified gas springs and the gas springs without any manufacturer's logo have different prices. For example, the price of a qualified gas spring is usually 20-30 yuan. Left and right, but the cheapest unqualified gas springs only need 6-7 yuan, and some merchants naturally choose the latter.

 

Therefore, if the swivel chair explodes, it is not a problem for a certain individual, and it is necessary to regulate the entire market.

 

■Select a brand and reject fakes ■

 

7. Reporter: In this way, the phenomenon of “swimming chair explosion” cannot be completely avoided. Does this negative factor affect your professional gas spring manufacturing enterprise?

 

A: No one can guarantee this, just like food safety. As long as there are still unqualified gas springs, it is impossible to completely avoid them. However, there is absolutely no need to talk about the "swivel chair" discoloration, because the probability of a swivel chair exploding is very small, especially like the gas springs produced by our regular manufacturers, the possibility of explosion is almost zero.

 

This negative factor has no effect on our production. First, the probability of explosion is small, and it is caused by unqualified products; second, because global demand is expanding; third, our product technology and quality are first-class. Our products are now not only spread all over the country, but also account for more than 30% of the market share in Shanghai and Guangdong, and are sold well in overseas markets such as Singapore, India, Iran, Germany and the United States.

 

8. Reporter: How should consumers prevent or avoid the "swivel chair explosion" phenomenon?

 

A: I suggest that you keep the following precautions in mind when purchasing and using the pneumatic lift chair.

 

First, don't be cheap, buy "three no products." Most of the cheap swivel chairs are inferior gas springs produced by informal manufacturers. Like our products are used for higher-grade office chairs, bar chairs, bank chairs, club chairs, executive chairs, car chairs, laboratory chairs and so on.

 

Second, try to buy a brand swivel chair, it will be more reassuring. The gas springs and other accessories used in the brand swivel chair are naturally branded. Like our “rich gas”, it is not only purchased by many brand furniture manufacturers, but also a gas spring brand specially designated by large companies and institutions such as BMW, Guangzhou Asian Games and National Laboratory.

 

Third, try to choose a swivel chair with steel plates. In addition to using our own "explosion-proof" gas spring patented technology to ensure safety, we also recommend manufacturers to do some intimate design when working with customers, such as adding a whole piece of steel plate with a thickness of 2-4 mm under the seat surface. Further protection of the screw and the accidental explosion of the outer end of the gas spring end pipe greatly increases the safety of the product.

 

Fourth, when sitting on a swivel chair, do not repeatedly lift, squat, or move uncontrollably. This is easy to cause uneven force on the gas spring. If the gas spring is damaged for a long time, it will form an explosion hazard.

 

Fifth, if you have problems, do not disassemble any one of your own items. The accessories of the swivel chair have the same normal life as the people. If there are cracks, looseness or shaking, repair or replace them in time. However, the service life of the gas spring is long, and the national standard is to reach 5W life. In fact, the current domestic regular manufacturers have reached 10W times or even 30W times, so usually the other parts of the chair are broken, and the gas spring can still be used normally.

 

9. Reporter: Do you have any opinions on the "swimming chair explosion" phenomenon and the gas spring industry?

 

A: I still have the same sentence. As long as the gas springs produced by regular manufacturers are used, consumers will not be able to explode under normal circumstances despite the peace of mind when they sit on the swivel chair. Of course, choosing a brand is more secure, and choosing a safe, explosion-proof gas spring is ideal.

 

Therefore, I am here to appeal, no matter who, for their own sake, but also for the safety of others' lives and property, please be sure to support genuine and refuse fakes. We also welcome swift chair manufacturers, furniture manufacturers, purchasing staff and overseas friends to visit, inspect, verify and guide our company.

 

In the future, we will continue to rely on the advantages of advanced technology, exquisite workmanship, high quality, safe explosion-proof, and price-sensitive products to make “Feng Yi” one of the most influential safety gas spring manufacturers in the country.