Where you can find us in 2019
Riverside Arts 2019
Once again New from Old will be hosting a group of artist makers in our riverside workshop. Our showroom and workshop will be open to view and we will have transformed the rest of the barn into a fantastic exhibition space. Showing with us this year are Caroline Forward, Kimberley Allen, Jane Frost, Jeremy Peake, Ditty Dokter, Rick Gordon, James Ryder and Diana Watts.
www.camopenstudios.co.uk
Country Fairs 2019
Cambridge Town and Country Fair We shall be back exhibiting at Cambridge Town and Country Fair, on Parker's Piece, Cambridge, 8th and 9th June 2019.
https://www.oakleighfairs.co.uk/cambridge-town-country-fair/
Wimpole Hall Christmas Craft Fair
We are looking forward to meeting friends and customers old and new at this year's Wimpole Hall Christmas Craft Fair when we return with our traditionally built furniture and with Rick demonstrating some of his traditional joinery methods. Wimpole Estate, Arrington, Royston, Cambridgeshire SG8 0BW
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wimpole
Federation of Small Businesses
We are a member of the Federation of Small Businesses.
New to our Team!
Jeremy Peake has joined us as our part time Workshop Assistant, and we are delighted to welcome him to New from Old.
Hand Carving
Rick has been enjoying hand carving new sustainably managed Oak hardwood as a feature for a Contemporary Kitchen, shown in our Other Kitchens page
Our Privacy Policy
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Green Energy for New from Old
As part of our ongoing commitment to minimal environmental impact, we are now generating our own electricity from photovoltaic panels. We re-use our waste wherever practical and safe, and to this end we have a wood burning stove to burn our sawdust to heat the workshop.
Sustainability in the kitchen manufacturing process
New from Old was recently approached for comments on any or all of the following topics: The general need for sustainability in the kitchen manufacturing process - why it's important. The way manufacturers are addressing the challenge of finding sustainable resources for cabinetry (both in terms of types of materials used and offsetting any timber used). Woods that consumers should look out for - ones to use and ones to avoid - and ecologically sound
manmade alternatives. The eco credentials of worktop surfaces, such as stone, synthetic and composite materials, and the available options for a sustainable workshop. This is our response: Sustainability in the kitchen manufacturing process Sustainability is largely about the materials used rather than the process of manufacture, although some processes can be more damaging to the environment than others. Broadly speaking, the
more labour intensive a process is, the better it is for the environment. Put very simplistically you can a drill a hole using a brace and bit and use no electricity, or use a CNC machine. The advantages of a CNC machine are speed and accuracy, so any process comes down to profit margin and cost. Self generating heating and electricity Some practices within manufacturing can be described as highly sustainable, for instance, the use of
workshop waste and off cuts to heat the workshop, and boiler technology is now advancing a pace so that the boilers can generate electricity as well as heat. Reclaimed Pine and Sustainable Woods The choice of materials can hugely affect how sustainable a process is, and again, broadly speaking, the less processed a material is the more sustainable it is, so solid wood is more sustainable than man made particle boards, but an MDF made without
formaldehyde and from forest thinnings (brashings) is more sustainable than a standard MDF, and English Oak, grown from a well managed wood is far more sustainable than a tropical timber, however well managed its growth has been. Here at New from Old, we tend to use only locally grown timbers that are accredited as sustainable, and we never use tropical woods or by products of the tropical timber industry. However, primarily we use reclaimed timber, largely pine.
Not only does it rate very highly on the environmental products score, but being reclaimed it comes with character and history in it, which our clients love. Sustainable Kitchen Work Surfaces Choice of work surfaces is a bit of a nightmare, but solid wood must be best. However, not every client is prepared to maintain an oiled worktop so alternatives need to be offered. Again the more processed a material the less sustainable it is, so
granite, slate and marble could rate quite highly, but then how damaging the mining operation is to the environment is still unquantified. Worktops from recycled materials such as glass, plastic, stonedust, are all worthy alternatives but for the resins used to cement the fragments together. I don’t believe anyone has as yet directly compared all these available products on a sustainability chart, but it would be an interesting exercise.
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