{"id":6057,"date":"2021-03-11T13:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uafm.com.ua\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:44:15","slug":"uam-v-oblychchyah-interv-yu-z-myhajlom-balanom-zasnovnykom-i-kerivnykom-kompaniyi-argonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uafm.com.ua\/en\/uam-v-oblychchyah-interv-yu-z-myhajlom-balanom-zasnovnykom-i-kerivnykom-kompaniyi-argonium\/","title":{"rendered":"UAFM in the Faces: Interview with Mikhail Balan, Founder and CEO of Argonium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3><b>A company with an intelligent approach to creating unique projects<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furniture has long ceased to be exclusively wood. Currently, there is virtually no material that to some extent would not be used in the manufacture of furniture. But the leading tree still remains. The second position among the main furniture materials is occupied by metal. In some cases, it is even the main in furniture, because there are only metal products. And metal furniture makers form a separate &#8220;caste&#8221; in our industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company we will talk about also works exclusively with metal but does not produce metal furniture. And yet she is in the Ukrainian Association of Furniture Manufacturers. This is because it is a contractor for traditional furniture production: it produces metal furniture elements for the needs of furniture makers, thanks to which their products become either stronger or more original or both combined. Being thus helpful to furniture makers, it is in fact also indirectly involved in furniture production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mykhailo Balan&#8217;s company (he is its founder and manager) is called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uafm.com.ua\/en\/members\/tov-argonium\/\">&#8220;Argonium&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> because argon welding of metal is its main business, and argon is the main &#8220;tool&#8221; used here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many people who work with metal, said Mykhailo Balan, but there are very few of them who work with stainless steel &#8211; it is a difficult dish because such metal is troublesome to process. And in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uafm.com.ua\/en\/members\/tov-argonium\/\">&#8220;Argonium&#8221;<\/a> <\/strong>not only &#8220;conquered&#8221; it, having studied to subtleties, but also are able to qualitatively make from it original, often difficult in the form and a design of a thing. In particular and to the order of furniture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In products, constructions created by Argonium, the main way of connecting elements is welding. And for high-quality welding of such inflexible material as &#8220;stainless steel&#8221;, without the use of argon can not do. Laser welding is more advanced, but it is still fantastically expensive for us. In addition, it is better for welding sheet materials, and pipe moulds are still more convenient for argon welding.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; In the era of automation, robotics, manual work is already perceived as a factor of backwardness, yesterday. However, your company emphasizes that it practices the manual method of TIG welding\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Because in our case, the definition of &#8220;manual welding&#8221; is not a minus, but a plus. This means that only this method can perform high-quality filigree welding. That is, you can achieve strong and aesthetic-looking welds.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8211; 3D-modeling &#8211; one of the types of services offered by your company\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Yes, but at the same time to a large extent, ZD-modeling is an important tool in our work. Especially in the manufacture of complex in shape and design things. The drawings do not give a clear idea of \u200b\u200bthe smallest nuances of the geometry of the structure, the sequence of operations in its creation. Without three-dimensional computer design, the desired result often had to be achieved by trial and error. This increased the lead time of orders and unproductive consumption of expensive material.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here it will be appropriate to make a digression to return to the origins. The company was started as a garage because it was really in the garage and implemented the first projects. The founder, as they say, rolled up his sleeves, stood for some time behind the machine. The company&#8217;s first successful product was designer towel rails, which competed with Turkish ones, which could be purchased in stores. By the way, towel rails still remain the only serial product produced by Argonium under its own brand. It took Mikhail Balan a year to get his &#8220;Argonauts&#8221; out of the garage. Undertook those orders, which due to the complexity of others refused. And thanks to this, not only to strengthen the market position, to gain credibility but also professionally &#8211; technically and technologically &#8211; improved. And now Argonium is quite legally positioned as a company with an intelligent approach to creating unique projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; And why polishing, which is a common operation in woodworking, you have singled out a special type of service?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; In contrast to wood processing, where polishing is an intermediate finishing stage, for stainless steel polishing, we can say &#8211; the main finishing operation. Moreover, it is quite technologically long, complex and expensive: it requires the use of &#8220;different calibre&#8221; grain sizes. Not everyone who deals with &#8220;stainless steel&#8221; wants to bother with this troublesome matter, so they turn to us for such a service, because for us it has long been a familiar and well-functioning business. The level of quality of stainless steel products that we guarantee is impossible without such a polishing finish.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; If for other customers you often perform complex interior and exterior metal projects, the furniture makers order you individual parts for their products. Which are preferable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Often it is a metal base for tables &#8211; bedding. Furniture supports, furniture handles shelf elements, other accessories. Of course, they turn to us to get exclusive, original elements of furniture designs.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; And your plans do not intend to establish self-production of metal furniture to fully meet the profile of UAFM?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; No, it is a separate sphere of production, and we do not intend to enter it. Our specialization is the production of individual metal elements for furniture, in particular decorative elements, as well as the implementation of interior projects. We are strong, convincing, authoritative in this, and this is enough for us for the success of the company. Especially since some foreign furniture manufacturers are interested in partnering with our company. 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