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LIVINGREEN DESIGN LTD LIVINGREEN HOUSE, 24/6 DRYDEN ROAD, LOANHEAD, EDINBURGH, EH20 9HX, UNITED KINGDOM. ||Pwww.livmgreendesign.com enquire@livingreendesign.com HOW WE MAKE IT had no idea there was so much work involved in ing our planters!” And it's true, each piece we ufacture will have been work on by at least 6 dif pairs of hands, each with a different skill, befo final product is packed and wrapped. Aside from Visitors to our Headquarters and principle workshops in Edinburgh always say the same things “I mak-man-erent e the hand tools and compressors, almost no machinery is used in the manufacturing process, they really are crafted by hand - but using technology from the Jet age. Our planters are made using advanced composite technology, the same technology that helps modern plane manufacturers achieve their dreams of more efficient, stronger aircraft. The same technology used to form the blades on millions of wind turbines and the very same used to form the cockpits and body shells of Formula 1 racing cars and record breaking racing yachts. While these industries use composite sandwiches reinforced with carbon, our planters use glass fibres, more than strong enough for purpose while allowing us to produce hand built products less expensively than metal or wood equivalent's.

WE TAKE PRIDE IN OUR WORK Whatever the reinforcement, all composites are lightweight, flexible, incredibly strong, and capable of being moulded into almost any shape. Being waterproof and with possibility of an unlimited range of finish options, they are the ideal material for planter manufacture. The process starts with a mould, formed from an original ‘piece’ and used to make exact replicas of the original by process known as lamination. The ‘laminator’, the skilled craftsman who makes the raw product, starts by painting the inside of the mould with a liquid plastic gel which will form a...