Modern Walnut

Modern Walnut is a highly textured, matt, luxurious finish that is a premium product within our range. The colour moves from a darker choclate brown in low light to include slighty redder tones in strong light. This results in it exhibiting almost the same characteristics as a real wood but without the fade and surface maintainance you get from a real wood product. If you are aiming for a cool, classy and darker office then Modern Walnut must be strong contender and pairs well with black frames and accessories.

Why do we call it call it Modern Walnut? Well, it is a long way from the flat, ungrained, shiny walnut copies that existed 10 years ago and are still on the market today.

Modern Walnut is a melamine faced chipboard. More information about the manufacture and background of MFC can be found by following the link to our MFC Material page. The board is composed of melamine resin impregnated paper sandwiching a chipboard core. In the case of Modern Walnut a texture is applied to the board during manufacture and an example of the texture is shown above. We classify the texture of this board as Heavy meaning you would be not be able to easily write on it, if at all, however it is more than fit for purpose as a desk material.

For the user this means a tough, heat and stain resistant surface which is durable and capable of withstanding an everyday home office or indeed commercial office environment. MFC is widely used in the furniture industry for kitchens, office furniture, cabinetry and restaurant and hotel fit-out so it is a proven and safe material.

The edges are sealed by applying an edgeband. This is a 2mm thick plastic (ABS) strip along all four sides of the chipboard edge using a complex machine called an edgebander. We use an advanced hot air technology to glue our edgeband to the edge after which it is automatically trimmed, scraped, corner rounded, buffed and cleaned by the machine to provide a board ready for quality inspection.

The hot air system we use leaves an almost invisible gap between the board and the edging meaning it is spill resistant and looks more aesthetically pleasing.

More about this can be found on our MFC material page.

MFC desk-tops are easy to maintain. They can be cleaned with normal, everyday detergent sprays you would use in your kitchen. Other than that there is nothing to do. In terms of durability they will not wear through. The only danger is dropping something on the desk-top. The melamine resin is hard and thus the surface can be cracked and penetrated. However it would take a heavy sharp object being dropped for 50cm or so to do damage.

Again more can be found on our MFC material page.