Running a Business in Harmony with Nature
We feel an obligation duty to our environment. That's why we make every effort to avoid any harmful impacts on people and nature that could arise from the manufacture, use or disposal of our products.
Running a Business in Harmony with Nature
We feel an obligation duty to our environment. That's why we make every effort to avoid any harmful impacts on people and nature that could arise from the manufacture, use or disposal of our products.
Environmentally Aware Manufacturing
We keep the possible effects on people and the environment in mind during all phases of production and design and keep them as low as possible.
Our goal is to continuously reduce CO2 emissions at our site. We rely on renewable energies and are expanding them. We regularly invest in energy-efficient production facilities. Our energy management system is certified according to DIN EN ISO 50001.
In production, we ensure that we use the optimum amount of material.
“We believe it is an important company principle to handle natural resources responsibly in manufacture just as much as in transport and disposal.”
Philipp Müller, Managing Director
Protecting Resources
We think about our materials in terms of a ‘life cycle’. This is how we ensure that products can be recycled. When using raw materials, we make sure that we use the material as efficiently as possible and thus reduce offcuts and waste to a minimum.
We use modern powder-coating plants with a high recovery rate for the unused coatings.
We only use beechwood chips obtained from sawmill waste wood. LIGNOdur boards are therefore an environmentally friendly upcycled product.
We burn chipboard residues from our own production facilities to generate the heat and energy used in our manufacturing plants and offices.
Steel tubing offcuts and metal waste generated are scrapped and thus fed into a long-established form of the circular economy.
Furniture parts made of plastic – such as the LuPo seats or the Hokki – are made out of polypropylene. Polypropylene is not only hard-wearing and thus long-lasting, but also completely recyclable.
To save on packaging waste, we largely use no packaging materials when transporting furniture. The focus is more on protection in transit. The material that is used here is reusable, for example furniture blankets. In turn, they are made of 100% recycled materials.
We make sure to keep transport routes as short as possible when purchasing. That is why we source 95 per cent of our materials in Europe: 70 per cent come from Germany and 25 per cent from other European countries. Only 5 per cent come from Asia from suppliers with whom we have been working for years.
Preserving Natural Habitats
We are revitalising our company grounds from an environmentally friendly point of view. We are recultivating the open spaces with native trees and shrubs and are creating insect meadows.
In the process of building the new Plant 7.1, we have invested in a large number of compensation measures - far more than required by law. In the neighbouring deciduous woodland, we have put up bat boxes, made by our apprentices together with Naturschutzbund Deutschland e. V. (NABU).
We have restored the filled-in spaces around the plant with green strips, low-nutrient meadows, habitats for larks, butterflies and wild bees and strips of field hedges. There is also an amphibian pond on the site. Here, the native common toads can spawn safely and the tadpoles grow up in the shallow water areas. Birds and insects use the pond as a source of drinking water.
In addition, for many years we have operated a market garden on our site according to the biological guidelines, which supplies the company restaurant. Once a week, employees can buy fruit and vegetables for their personal use.
From early summer to autumn, the VS garden provides home-grown vegetables and fruit.
From early summer to autumn, the VS garden provides home-grown vegetables and fruit.
From early summer to autumn, the VS garden provides home-grown vegetables and fruit.
VS staff shopping in the VS garden
VS staff shopping in the VS garden
VS staff shopping in the VS garden
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How we live and implement sustainability
You can find all of the important information in our Sustainability Report.
Our spare parts department
Better to repair than buy new: If something on our products needs to be replaced or you need new wearing parts such as glides, you can simply contact our spare parts service. Here you can conveniently obtain suitable spare parts for our products.
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