Mark People's Mind Not Nature!
Fermob furniture is designed to live outdoors, and is made using materials and processes that respect the environment. Environmental concerns have always been at the heart of the design and aesthetic qualities of Fermob’s creations, together with their lightness and resistance, helping us save materials and limit waste as well as transport impact.
CONTINUALLY IMPROVING OUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Optimising energy consumption remains one of Fermob’s key concerns, as regularly demonstrated through concrete actions:
• Reducing the temperature of our ovens (-10°C in 25 years),
• Setting up a stoving process that consumes 10% less energy,
• Investing in a new painting line, saving 8 tons of powder per year,
• Reduction in our water use (30% reduction in 5 years),
• Reduction in our electricity use, with the addition of LED lighting (5% reduction in 5 years).
METAL : AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CHOICE
Some 98% of all iron and aluminium is now recycled worldwide. This means that Fermob can guarantee that its furniture is fully recyclable – and recycled. In 2013, we teamed up with Eco-mobilier, an environmental body that collects used furniture to give it a second lease of life.
The organisation’s purpose is to arrange for the collection of unwanted furniture and, in doing so, to meet government recycling and recovery targets. Fermob contributes to this endeavour by:
• Encouraging customers to donate unwanted items of furniture to charities and social enterprises for recycling.
• Supporting eco-design research.
• Keeping customers informed about how the eco-participation tax is used.
ECOLOGICAL PAINT THAT PROTECTS BOTH THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR HEALTH
The powder paint used by Fermob contains no solvents. It is 100% recycled and recyclable and it is applied in a zero-waste facility, with successive dips making our products guaranteed for outdoor use.
- Zero discharge of polluted water thanks to the use of a carefully balanced successive-dip process in the surface treatment tunnel
- Zero atmospheric emissions heat from the ovens is even recovered to heat the metal treatment baths!
- Zero powder waste our solvent-free, 100% polyester powder coating is applied without water via a closed-loop process, meaning that any surplus powder is collected via suction and reused.
Because this facility is a classified installation on environmental protection grounds, Fermob has specific obligations and responsibilities that echo its commitment to the environment. The brand is also part of a program that aims to reduce the release of dangerous substances into water.
RECYCLED AND RECYCLABLE PACKAGING
Fermob has been participating in the CITEO (Eco-emballage/Ecofolio) program for many years now. We help turn our everyday products into new resources, and we are firm believers in getting the packaging just right – using eco-designed packaging that contains as few raw materials as possible.
-
Posted by Tara De Courcey
15th March 2023
