Aluminium Garden FurnitureGarden Furniture Design

Although aluminium makes up 8% of the Earth’s solid surface by weight, using recycled aluminium to make garden furniture only takes 5% of the energy required to produce aluminium from ore.  For this reason, using recycled aluminium is high advantageous in the fight to reduce the damage we are doing to the planet.  The process of hand-crafting garden furniture from waste aluminium starts with smelting, in which ingots of aluminium are heated in crucibles until they melt into liquid aluminium.  This liquid metal is then hand-poured at a constant, continuous rate into sand moulds of the required component and left to cool naturally. 

When cooled and hardened, the sand-cast components are assembled.  In most cases they are bolted together for speed, allowing a quick turn over of products.  However, in the highest-quality manufacturing processes, the components welded together by hand, to using an aluminium solder to create a single piece of furniture.  This lack of fixings means provides the best possible stability and strength and makes welded furniture far preferable to the more common, bolted alternative.

Most alumimum garden funitureis a good choice, but recycled aluminium garden furniture is even better.