LOOKS GOOD
AND FEELS GOOD.

Whenever possible, we use local woods or certified plantation wood. If our clients require a special type of wood that does not fall into this category, we draw their attention to this and suggest alternatives. We are also happy to use MDF, which consists of very fine residual wood fibres and also has excellent characteristics for furniture construction.

In cooperation with a retail partner, we have succeeded in making innovative, low-emission organic MDF boards available in northern Germany and using them as the preferred option.

Since 1 December 2023, we have been converting our surfaces to water-soluble paints. However, it is not always possible to fulfil the sustainability aspect satisfactorily; compromises often have to be made. For example, we cannot completely do without solvent-based paints, as some special surfaces, such as high-gloss finishes, can only be produced with the help of solvents.

The resulting paint remains are environmentally harmful and must be specially treated as toxic waste. However, we have found a way to turn this “sin” into a “virtue”: We separate the solvents from the paint residues under heat in a special distillation unit.

We use the newly recovered solvents to clean brushes, spray guns, contaminated surfaces, etc. The remaining solid part of the paint residue can be safely deposited with household waste. In this way, solvents are recycled and hazardous waste is turned into normal, harmless waste.

For a long time, we have only used bubble wrap in exceptional cases. We protect our furniture with reusable fleece blankets made from recycled materials.

We are supplied with 100% green electricity by “Hamburg-Energie”. As soon as the sun shines, we have been able to supply ourselves with sustainable electricity from our own PV system since January 2022.  This also includes “refuelling” our first e-vehicles (now 3!) with our own wallbox. Nevertheless, we try to be careful with our electricity consumption. In order to consume even less energy, our workshop was fully equipped with energy-saving LED lights back in 2019. Of course, we use green gas for heating.

In 2022, we went online with the “Restholz-Freunde”, an internet exchange we developed. The basic idea was to make valuable residual material from leftover orders available to the hobby or professional market instead of disposing of them in the rubbish and thus unnecessarily wasting resources and releasing CO”. Unfortunately, we were unable to convince enough supporters for this idea, so we’re putting the fair on hold for the time being.

However, this doesn’t stop us from reusing valuable leftover materials  instead of throwing them away.

Since February 2020, we have been offsetting CO² emissions for our deliveries to the climate protection organisation „Atmosfair“.