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Hello world! We are PX-Lab.

As we have developed this gosh darn beauty of a website which you are currently admiring, we have realized that we might not have been completely true to our mission. This company is about moving away from polishing the cover and hiding some ugly, incomprehensible inside from the owner. There is so much more to starting PX-LAB and developing ASSEMBLY_ONE than is shown on our instagram and website. We therefore feel that you have the right to know what goes on behind the scenes, during late night meetings on discord drinking truly disturbing amounts of non-alcoholic Radler, or Felix with the body shape and attitude of Popeye mounting 500 rivet nuts in a single day. All in the name of transparency. If this is of interest to you, read on by all means.

A few months ago, we received a third round of disappointing deliveries from a German aluminum sheet manufacturer. This was truly a let down. Being a newly started company, every dime counts, and this German provider was the only one suited to our budget. The overall quality of the aluminum sheets were fine, the issue was the surface finish. It scratched way too easily for us to be able to sell it with pride. After some proper head scratching, we came up with the idea of powder coating the sheets red. But not just red. Really red. Like, super red. We landed on RAL3020. It does not get redder than that, that is for sure. One issue remained, though. Since the owner bends the sheets themselves, the sheets would need to be painted before bending, which we assumed would cause the paint to crack. How elastic is paint? We did not know, so we started emailing multiple paintwork services around Stockholm county, describing the challenge and asking if they would be able to do it. No, was the answer. No, no, no. A few days went by until we finally heard something else, from a sweet man working at Combi-lack in Högdalen who said he would give it a shot. We gave him a sample to test paint, crossing our fingers that the paintwork would only crack a little, and that it would not flake. One week later we received a painted sheet. We held our breath as we bent it, and you can imagine the relief when there was not a single crack. The red series was good to go.