28 Ecology Girsberger products are more than just pieces of furniture – they accompany many people through their personal and working lives over many years. That’s what drives us on every day to create functional furniture of outstanding quality in timeless designs. Our love of detail and our commitment to sustainability are two more reasons why we at Girsberger are proud to design and develop products that are not only functional and beautiful but also sustainably produced and suitable for use over many years. Our careful product development, production, marketing, customer service and post-sales guarantee on spare parts all help ensure that our products have a long service life. We use reliable design solutions and low-emission, recyclable materials. In this way we endeavour to ensure that buying our furniture is always also an environmentally and economically responsible decision. Out of a sense of conviction, we behave responsibly towards people, society and the environment, and our product philosophy reflects our sense that it is our duty to ensure that our furniture contributes to a more sustainable future. All our production has been climate-neutral since 2015. For every Girsberger product, we consider the environmental credentials of the materials to be used, right from the design phase. Even though we are increasingly exposed to the pressure to cut manufacturing costs, we consistently manufacture long-lasting products using environmentally friendly materials, and we separate different materials as much as possible so that they can subsequently be returned to the recycling loop. With the exception of scrap metal, large quantities of plastic, foam, textiles and waste paper tend to end up in incinerators, landfill sites and the oceans nowadays. That is why we have set ourselves the goal of using post-consumer materials wherever possible when designing new products. We enjoy the challenge of using waste materials to design and manufacture useful and durable furniture – thereby preserving resources and the environment as much as possible. It was with this objective in mind that we launched a product development project in 2022. It consists of a range of soft seating with multiple variants, comprising different seats and matching tables. The market launch is due to be in the second half of 2023. Because we have used only post-consumer recycled materials for the seat frames, upholstery and covers, we have achieved a rate of almost 100% sustainable materials by volume and weight. The only new materials in this extensive range of soft seating are the plastic sliders and a very small percentage of steel components, which include a proportion of scrap metal. In another project we are trying to produce the existing plastic seat shells that are used in great numbers in the Nava and Marel ranges out of post-consumer materials. However, implementation of this project has been delayed, simply because of the very limited availability of permanently stabilised post-consumer polyamide regranulate in injection- moulding quality, to ensure that structural components are safe. For that reason, we have had to delay the market launch until the 4th quarter of 2023. We have set ourselves the firm and overriding objective of offering our customers an ever-wider range of furniture containing a substantial proportion of post-consumer materials. Product stewardship, environmental compliance ”We manufacture our products in an environmentally friendly way, climate neutral since 2015.”
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