A cupboard is a necessary attribute of almost every room, both residential and office. And there are, of course, many types of such furniture. In living quarters, wardrobes, kitchens or chests of drawers are usually installed. In offices, furniture is most often used for storing and organizing various kinds of documentation. Particularly popular in offices are, of course, metal file cabinets and cabinets for storing archives.
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Without an order in terms of documentation, no office can be effective. For all the time of its relevance, all kinds of certificates, contracts, invoices, etc. must remain clean, not wrinkled and not burnt out. This concerns both very important documents and ordinary ones, drawn up by hundreds in the process of daily office work.
Access to some documents should be strictly limited. All sorts of confidential papers in our time is actually just a huge amount. Also, office employees must at any time be able to, without spending too much time, find any document they need among many others like that.
It is the increase in the convenience of office employees and the safety of papers that are the main purpose of archival and filing cabinets of any design. In terms of durability, such furniture, for example, is in no way inferior to safes. However, access to documentation stored in such cabinets is still quite difficult. In addition, such models are usually equipped with the most reliable locks.
Types of metal file cabinets
This type of furniture can differ mainly in three ways:
Outwardly, metal file cabinets and archive cabinets resemble ordinary household dressers. That is, in most cases they are rectangular containers with a huge number of drawers. The height of such cabinets may have different. This indicator depends primarily on the number of boxes. The width of the filing cabinets in many cases is determined by the type of documents for which they are intended.
Most often, office furniture is used to store standard A4 papers. However, today there are lockers on sale, used, for example, for sheets of the size of whatman paper or medical or work books, passports, all kinds of certificates, etc. That is, if you wish, you can buy such furniture in our time, designed to store paper format from A0 to A8.
There are also special, rather expensive file cabinets and archive cabinets with hanging cells on sale today. The specificity of such models is primarily that they can be configured to store documents of different formats.
Design Differences
Most often, offices use metal file cabinets with drawers. But sometimes models with cells having a common or individual door are also installed in such rooms.
Combined file cabinets metal cabinets are very popular. In such models, simple cells and drawers can be provided at the same time. Often in combined wardrobes there may also be common large compartments.
The cover for metal card index models can be either ordinary or inclined. The latter option is often used in offices where employees work with very important documentation. The slanted cover does not allow you to put important papers on the iron cabinet and subsequently accidentally forget about them.
Appearance
Of course, metal office furniture does not look as beautiful as it is made of chipboard. But such cabinets still look quite attractive and neat. At the same time, they also add solidity to the interior of office premises. After all, such models look really strong and reliable.
Of course, before putting their products on the market, manufacturers of metal cabinets paint them. Most often, powder paint is used to design such furniture. This finish is actually very reliable. For example, among manufacturers of entrance metal doors it is even considered anti-vandal. In any case, scratches on painted metal office cabinets are extremely rare.
For staining furniture of this type, manufacturers can use powder compositions of various shades. Therefore, if you wish, it will be easy to choose an archival metal cabinet, in color that perfectly harmonizes with the decoration and other office interior items.
The advantages of metal cabinets
The undoubted advantages of office furniture of this variety include:
Long service life. On metal cabinets, unlike models made of chipboard, chips or noticeable scratches never appear. The only thing is that such furniture can be afraid of water. In rooms with high humidity on models of this type, unfortunately, rust often appears. And this, in turn, makes metal furniture unattractive and at the same time reduces the usability of it. After all, the drawers of a metal cabinet in the presence of rust can begin to slide in and out poorly.
Strength. As already mentioned, access to documents from a metal cabinet for a file cabinet is more difficult than from a model made of chipboard. Therefore, it is advisable to use such furniture for storage, including very important documents.
Such cabinets, in comparison with ordinary ones, have one more important advantage. Particleboard, as you know, burns very well. Metal is completely devoid of such a drawback. Therefore, when using cabinets made of iron, the probability of the safety of documents during a fire in a room increases significantly.
What brands exist on the market
Many companies are engaged in the production of such office furniture today. But in the domestic market you can find mainly metal file cabinets and archive cabinets of the Bisley and Practik brands. Both those and other models differ, according to consumers, simply excellent operational qualities, and also convenience in use.
Cabinets Bisley
The advantages of this manufacturer office workers include primarily a wide range of products supplied to the market. If desired, today you can purchase both standard Bisley file cabinets and narrow, side or with reduced depth. Files in models of this brand can be located in both longitudinal and transverse directions.
In addition to conventional archival metal cabinets, this manufacturer also supplies modular ones to the market. In this case, the furniture can be assembled from blocks in accordance with the layout of the office or the convenience of storing documentation.
File cabinets metal "Practician"
Cabinets from this manufacturer in Russia are currently the most popular. The main advantages of their consumers include the convenience of design. You can install “Practitioner” cabinets both in offices and in warehouses or even in the offices of ordinary residential buildings or apartments. The products of this brand are different:
large capacity;
wear resistance;
attractive appearance.
Consumers consider only their rather high cost as a certain drawback of Practik cabinets. Bisley models, for example, are sold at a slightly lower price.