/   Page 1 of 1 The Tolix chair was created by Xavier Pauchard. It’s a functional, strong and modern looking and suitable for home, business and commercial use and is a fantastic stylish option for cafes, bars and restaurants. Stylish, Strong and Sturdy Chairs Our replica Tolix Chairs come in variety of styles and colours with optional cushions available. Each chair also comes with safety stopper feet to ensure they won’t slide around. They’re available for pickup from our and delivery and because they’re light, strong and sturdy, shipping can be quite cost effective. Pickup is FREE and available from our Perth showroom (in Belmont) and from our Melbourne warehouse in Epping. Looking for other Tolix products? Check out the links below Tolix Stools & Replicas Cushions for Tolix Chairs & Stools .au or phone us on 08-9477-3441 We accept Paypal, Visa, Mastercard and AmexAT least eight people have now been injured by cheap metal chairs with legs so sharp they slice toes like a scalpel.

Three suppliers are recalling their versions of the “Tolix” chair and another is about to follow after its seat severely cut a Queensland man at a Victorian cafe. The four suppliers — Fantastic Furniture, Kmart, Early Settler Group (ESG) and Brayco — have sold well over 100,000 of the Chinese-made replicas, which sell for a little as $33, compared to $400 for the French-made original.comfy chairs for the elderly “There’s a real problem here. table and chair rental fort mcmurrayThese chairs are everywhere,” said Robert Ahearn, who in January was injured by a chair Melbourne-based Brayco sold to the Upper Murray Community bakery in Corryong in north Victoria.nursing chairs uk tesco

Do you have a legal question you want answered for FREE? Click on this link and post it in the Expert Q & A section and our gurus will reply from 1-2pm As the 62-year-old Sunshine Coast man pushed the chair backward to stand up, its leg hit a rut in the footpath, causing him to fall. The middle toe of his right foot then got caught in the chair leg. lace chair sashes sydneyMr Ahearn’s toes were exposed because he was wearing thongs.papasan chair for babies He immediately went to the local hospital. malibu pilates chair canada“The doctor said something to the effect of ‘I couldn’t have done a better job with a scalpel’,” Mr Ahearn recalled this week.plastic chairs for sale johannesburg

He required eight stitches. The toe still aches. But the cafe has not removed the chairs. The neighbourhood centre which operates it this week said it was waiting for an incident report from Mr Ahearn. He said he was not asked to provide one. Without an incident report, the neighbourhood centre said it had no reason to alert the chair’s supplier. beach chair rentals in oahuMr Ahearn did not know the name of the supplier, so he didn’t raise the alarm either.tables and chairs for rent odessa tx “All I can tell you is a guy hurt his toe out the front and there was blood everywhere,” Corryong Neighbourhood Centre co-ordinator Michael Leonhard said this week. “Anybody could hurt themselves on any chair.” Mr Leonhard did provide the name of the supplier to News Corp Australia.

“Clearly it would have been good it would if we had been informed of the incident” sooner, said Brayco director Harry Bray, who yesterday removed the chairs from sale and contacted the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which regulates consumer safety. Brayco estimates it has sold 6600 of the chairs, which it calls TCH. “The likely thing is we will be doing a recall,” Mr Bray said. “There is obviously a problem. We have decided to stop selling them. We are not in the business of hurting people.” On Tuesday the ACCC said there had been seven “consumer injuries involving Xavier Pauchard Tolix replica chairs” since the start of 2015. It wouldn’t provide details. News Corp Australia has previously reported Fantastic Furniture Worx chairs have injured a western Sydney man and a Gold Coast boy. Mr Ahearn’s injury would be the eighth, because it was only reported to the ACCC yesterday by Mr Bray. Shine Lawyers general manager Kimberly Allen said: “People should not have to worry that a toe or any other part of them could be cut off because of household furniture.”

Melbourne-based ESG CEO Craig McKeown said: “We haven’t had any complaints or damage to our customers.” It had decided to recall its Saxon and Salvage chairs to remove “any potential laceration hazard”. It has sold about 7000 of the seats. Kmart would not say how many it had sold. In January, Fantastic began recalling nearly 100,000 Worx chairs. ESG and Kmart began their recalls in March. In all cases, the fix involves customers being supplied with plugs that go inside the chair legs. Similar chairs are also sold by Bunnings, Aldi, Matt Blatt and Nick Scali. Bunnings and Aldi said they hadn’t had a problem. Matt Blatt and Nick Scali didn’t respond. Like this reporter’s work on FacebookIn Australia, or as I like to call it “Great Southern Land of the Knock off”, not just classic chairs but any product that might be selling well, even one from a young upcoming Australian designer, can be copied and sold under the guise of a “replica”.  

It’s not only the online or low cost furniture retailers that sell “replicas”.   Recently a large European supermarket chain did a major advertising campaign including TV advertising, selling “replica” furniture, something that would be illegal in its own country. In Australia I believe that it’s wrong and misleading that any company can sell a copy of a product under the name of the designer or the name of the product, just by placing “replica” in front of its name. Well that’s my little rant over and it’s a discussion that has been done before. Well there are two easy ways to reduce costs significantly; produce in a country with a low cost manufacturing base and use cheaper materials to make the product. So what are the standards of the factories in these low cost manufacturing countries, what are the conditions for the workers and what manufacturing standards are in place? Unfortunately, for most Australians it’s a case of out of sight out of mind until something media worthy, such as a fire in a garment factory in Bangladesh in 2012.

The fire killed over 100 sweat shop workers. But realistically the majority of people in Australia won’t care, but something a bit closer to home….. I thought I would put it to the test after one of my friends mentioned that the company he works for has a machine that’s used to find out the composition of materials or products. It uses X-Ray fluorescence to analyse and then immediately it gives a digital recording of what’s in a product and in what quantities.   It’s a recognized screening tool used by the US Customs, the US environmental agency and other international agencies checking for hazardous substances in consumer goods. This portable XRF analyser is like something out of Star Trek, remember the tricorder! Actually that’s not far off the mark as a similar product is currently used on the Mars Rover. So I ventured to the dark side and bought a couple of replica “Tolix” stools, possibly the most copied product in Australia. Every second café seems to have a version – usually quickly rusting away.

Using the Delta XRF we tested them along with an authentic Tolix® stool and we got some very interesting results. What it showed was that the Tolix® had no significant levels of hazardous substances but it was a different story with the replicas. One stool showed elevated levels of lead of more than 300 parts per million (ppm), the US the Consumer Protection Safety Commission requires less than 100 ppm of lead.   We investigated further and removed the surface of paint and tested the bare metal underneath. It showed that it was the paint that contained the lead. Both replica stools also showed elevated levels of lead in the welds which means they used lead in the solder. The Tolix® stool showed a copper solder was used rather than the hazardous and weaker lead. Both copies showed high levels of zinc that implies a lower grade of steel was being used, unlike the Tolix® stool that showed no zinc. The second replica showed high levels of mercury of more than 1,000 ppm, another hazardous material.

This would need further laboratory testing to confirm as there can be an overlap with the zinc content in this method of testing. The authentic Tolix® showed no levels of mercury. Interestingly the Tolix® Company in France had also done some laboratory testing and found that the replica product they tested had a lead content of 4.4% or 44,000 ppm! So what does this mean? Obviously using the cheaper materials will reduce the strength and as such how long the product will last for. It will be more prone to breaking and increase the risk of injury. So when it breaks what happens to the product?   Does it get recycled or repaired or does it just get thrown out in the rubbish, then into landfill where it will eventually degrade into the earth leaving its poisonous residue. So you may not care how you leave the earth…… The detrimental effects of lead, especially to babies, young children and pregnant woman, have been known for a long time.   In the worst cases exposure can cause brain damage and even death;