The Secret Behind IKEA Tables: Honeycomb! - Neatorama

[National Geographic Video]

Ever wonder how IKEA makes their furniture sturdy yet light? The secret is the honeycomb skeleton inside their tabletops. National Geographic went inside an IKEA factory in Poland: Link

It's the same technique that's been used for interior doors for many decades.

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I found this idea used in the bumper of my car. I attached a ground effect light to the STYROFOAM filling the plastic.

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So it's true- They sell mainly air...

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Sturdy is a matter of perception...I've put things together perfectly and they were amazingly sturdy, but make one wrong move during assembly and they fall apart like cardboard...

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Aluminum honeycomb core is very common on aircraft as well. Light, but very strong.

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Its a polite way of saying that it's made out of cardboard.

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that's a lot cooler than the shitty particle board they fill the majority of their furniture with

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I discovered this when I sawed up some Ikea shelves. If I had realised I could get on the front page of Neatorama I would have taken some photos.

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What a gushing commentator! I found the lack of robots odd in a modern factory. Guess labor is still cheap in Poland.

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BikerRay, you are so right about the commentator. I't's the style nowadays, but the constant over-stressing of relatively unimportant words really annoys me.
Hey, it's a hollow core door. It's not the greatest thing in the whole wide world. Newscasters really abuse this style of narration.

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Sturdy? STURDY??? Have you ever actually owned anything from IKEA? There's a reason why they keep all those replacement parts handy...

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Cool. I actually have always wondered what was inside our LACK table!

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